NEW LONDON, Conn.—Senior
Martin Mejia (Cali, Colombia), junior
Louis Bourn (Geneva, Switzerland) and sophomore
Mason Nguyen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) all recorded wins in both singles and doubles to help No. 15 Babson College defeat the Coast Guard Academy, 5-2, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's tennis action on Wednesday afternoon.
Babson, which has won three straight and six of its last seven matches, improves to 14-4 overall and 6-0 in conference play while securing at least a share of its second consecutive NEWMAC regular season title. Coast Guard has dropped its last three matches to slip to 2-8 overall and 1-5 in league play.
Bourn and Mejia defeated junior Ben Bonetto (Bend, Ore.) and senior Brendan Love (Winchester, Va.) of Coast Guard in a tie breaker at number one, 7-6 (7-4), and Nguyen paired with sophomore
Sebastian Mendoza (Weston, Fla.) for a 6-2 victory at number two to help the Beavers secure the doubles point.
The Green and White won all four of its singles matches in straight sets while dropping a pair of three-set decisions. Nguyen was a 6-0, 6-0 winner at number two, Bourn posted a 6-2, 6-2 triumph at number three, Mejia cruised to a 6-0, 6-3 victory at number three and graduate student
Ryan Patrick (Darien, Conn.) blanked Bears' senior Logan Kwon (University Place, Wash.) 6-0, 6-0 at number five.
Bonetto outlasted Mendoza 6-3, 1-6, 10-7 at number one and first-year Lucas Peltier-Salazar (Newhall, Calif.) rallied for a 1-6, 6-4, 10-8 victory at number six for Coast Guard.
Babson returns to action on Thursday when it hosts No. 19 Brandeis at 3:30 p.m., while Coast Guard concludes its season by hosting Wheaton on Saturday at 1 p.m.
MATCH NOTES
• The Beavers are 27-7 against Coast Guard since 2001 and have won 19 of the last 20 matches between the teams.
• Babson has won its last 15 matches versus conference foes and secured at least a share of its third NEWMAC regular season title since 2023 and fourth in the last six years going back to 2021.
