Box Score AMHERST, Mass.— First-year Lukas Frangenberg (New York, N.Y.) registered victories in both singles and doubles as No. 20 Amherst College pulled off a 4-3 victory over No. 11 Babson College in a battle of top-20 schools in non-conference men's tennis action Friday afternoon at the Amherst Tennis Courts.
 
With the win, Amherst won its second match in a row to improve to 7-4 overall, while the Beavers had a three-match winning streak snapped and dropped to 11-4 on the season.
 
Senior Alexander Merson (Palisades Park, N.J.) and first-years Maxim Zlobinsky (Greenvale, N.Y.) and Sourish Gadhi (Morganville, N.J.) posted singles wins for the Beavers in the loss. Sophomores Edward Wang (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) won at number two doubles for the Green and White.
 
Wang and Mendoza registered the first result of the match with a 6-2 victory over senior George Chaidemenos (Athens, Greece) and junior Rex Harrison (La Jolla, Calif.). Amherst answered with a 6-4 victory at number three as sophomore Albert Hu (Great Neck, N.Y.) and first-year Ronald Gualario (Basking Ridge, N.J.) downed senior Martin Mejia (Cali, Colombia) and junior Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland). The Mammoths earned the doubles point when Frangenberg and junior Andreas Sillaste (Oulu, Finland) pulled out a win at number one in a tiebreaker over Merson and Zlobinsky, 7-6.
 
Frangenberg started the singles session with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Mendoza at number three. Babson got on the board with back-to-back wins by Gadhi at number six over Hu (6-4, 6-4) and Zlobinsky at number four over sophomore Aldiyar Abzhan (Davie, Fla.), 6-3, 7-6, evening the team score at 2-2.
 
The Mammoths put the triumph away when Chaidemenos defeated Wang at number two, 6-4, 6-4, and Harrison got past first-year Dylan O'Connell-DeCerchio (Santa Monica, Calif.) at number five, 7-5, 6-2. Merson finished off the scoring for Babson with a 7-5, 6-4 verdict over Sillaste at number one.

The Beavers play again on Saturday with a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match against Clark at 12 p.m. at the Babson Tennis Courts. Amherst is back in action on Sunday hosting Bates at 12 p.m.
 
MATCH NOTES
• Babson is 0-5 all-time against the Mammoths in a series that dates back to 2009, although Friday's match was the first between the two sides since 2014.
• The Green and White dropped to 3-4 this spring against teams that are ranked nationally in Division III by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
• Wang and Mendoza improved to a team-best 21-6 record in doubles, and are now just one win shy of the program's single-season record of 22 doubles win set by Merson last year.