Box Score 1 TROY, N.Y.— Sophomore
Edward Wang (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and first-year
Maxim Zlobinsky (Greenvale, N.Y.) registered three combined victories each as No. 12 Babson College registered 5-2 wins over Skidmore College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in non-conference men's tennis matches Saturday morning and afternoon.
Senior
Alexander Merson (Palisades Park, N.J.), sophomore
Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) and first-year
Max Lidman (Stockholm, Sweden) also recorded a pair of victories on the day for the Beavers.
With the wins, Babson improves to 4-0 on the season while Skidmore and RPI both drop to 1-1.
Babson 5, Skidmore 2 (at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)
Wang and Mendoza opened the match with a 6-2 win over Fletcher King and Nika Mori at number one doubles, but the Thoroughbreds secured the doubles point when Kyle Lundberg and Yuval Goodman edged Merson and Zlobinsky at number two, 6-4, and Mahen Bitkuri and Radin Sadeghi took a 6-3 decision over junior
Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) and senior
Martin Mejia (Cali, Colombia) at number three.
The Beavers captured the team victory with four straight wins in singles. Merson outlasted Goodman at number one, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1; Wang got past Lundberg at number two, 7-5, 6-3; Mendoza defeated King at number three, 6-3, 6-3; and Zlobinsky pulled out a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 verdict over Sadeghi at number five.
First-year
Dylan O'Connell-DeCerchio (Santa Monica, Calif.) tacked on a point for Babson with a 6-1, 6-4 decision over Bitkuri at number six, and Skidmore earned its second point with Mustafa Ege Topbas' win over graduate student
Ryan Patrick (Darien, Conn.) at number four, 1-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-6).
Babson 5, RPI 2 (at Troy, N.Y.)
The Beavers claimed the doubles point in their second match of the day despite a loss by Wang and Mendoza at number one, falling to Tasmay Shah and Tsubasa Okada, 6-2, as the Babson duo fell to 16-2 on the year. Babson picked up wins in the bottom two flights as Merson and Zlobinsky defeated Quoc-Uy Vo and Gustave Viennet at number two, 6-4, and Bourn and Lidman defeated Felix Puyplat and Aiden Atri at number three, 6-2.
Babson secured the team victory with wins in four of the six singles matches. Wang breezed past Shah at number one, 6-2, 6-2; Zlobinsky captured a win over Viennet at number four, 6-1, 6-4; Lidman defeated Puyplat at number five, 6-4, 6-3; and first-year
Sourish Gadhi (Morganville, N.J.) knocked off Debarshi Sen at number six, 6-1.
The Engineers outlasted Babson in the final two matches as Okada defeated Mendoza at number two, 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-6), and Vo was a winner over Patrick at number three, 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (13-11).
The Beavers will return to action next Saturday hosting No. 27 NYU at the Longfellow Health Club in Wellesley, beginning at 3:45 p.m.