Lehigh University Athletics
Sunday, January 26
12:00 pm
Lehigh University
4
vs
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Monmouth
Lehigh defeats Monmouth 4-3 to secure 2-0 start
1/26/2014 4:42:00 PM | Men's Tennis
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Lehigh men's tennis team captured its 15th straight home win with a 4-3 victory over visiting Monmouth Sunday inside the Lewis Tennis Center. The Mountain Hawks won the doubles point and claimed three singles victories to win their tenth straight match over Monmouth.
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In doubles play, Lehigh's top team of senior Mark Goldberg and junior Mitchell Petersen started things off with a 6-2 win over Prezemyslaw Filipek and Chris Vieira. The Mountain Hawk pair of junior Ben Gilman and sophomore Jeremy Kochman followed with another 6-2 victory over Monmouth's Luke Adamus and Bee Kumthonkittikul to give Lehigh the first point of the match.
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Gilman was defeated by Filipek to begin singles play, but Petersen took down Monmouth's Freddy Marcinkowski in straight sets (6-3, 6-1) to claim a Mountain Hawk point at No. 2 singles. Kochman was able to pull out a 6-5 victory in a tiebreak of the third set to win No. 4 singles against Ramy Bekheit.Â
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Monmouth followed with a win at No. 5 singles to tie the match at three apiece, before freshman Ethan Bogard clinched the match for Lehigh. Bogard won 6-1, 6-2 over Monmouth's Jason Prezant to clinch the match for the Mountain Hawks.
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The Mountain Hawks remain home next weekend to host Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sunday at 9 a.m. inside the Lewis Tennis Center.
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Lehigh 4, Monmouth 3
Doubles
Singles
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In doubles play, Lehigh's top team of senior Mark Goldberg and junior Mitchell Petersen started things off with a 6-2 win over Prezemyslaw Filipek and Chris Vieira. The Mountain Hawk pair of junior Ben Gilman and sophomore Jeremy Kochman followed with another 6-2 victory over Monmouth's Luke Adamus and Bee Kumthonkittikul to give Lehigh the first point of the match.
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Gilman was defeated by Filipek to begin singles play, but Petersen took down Monmouth's Freddy Marcinkowski in straight sets (6-3, 6-1) to claim a Mountain Hawk point at No. 2 singles. Kochman was able to pull out a 6-5 victory in a tiebreak of the third set to win No. 4 singles against Ramy Bekheit.Â
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Monmouth followed with a win at No. 5 singles to tie the match at three apiece, before freshman Ethan Bogard clinched the match for Lehigh. Bogard won 6-1, 6-2 over Monmouth's Jason Prezant to clinch the match for the Mountain Hawks.
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The Mountain Hawks remain home next weekend to host Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sunday at 9 a.m. inside the Lewis Tennis Center.
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Lehigh 4, Monmouth 3
Doubles
- Goldberg/Petersen (LU) def. Filipek/Vieira (MU)6-2
- Gilman/Kochman (LU) def. Adamus/Kumthonki (MU) 6-2
- Chernykh/Bogard (LU) D/F Marcinkowski/Bekheit (MU) 3-4
Singles
- Przemyslaw Filipek (MU) def. Ben Gilman (LU) 6-3, 5-6, 6-5
- Mitchell Petersen (LU) def. Freddy Marcinkowski (MU) 6-3, 6-1
- Luke Adamus (MU) def. Tyler Hansen (LU) 6-2, 6-3
- Jeremy Kochman (LU) def. Ramy Bekheit (MU) 6-4, 3-6, 6-5 (6)
- Chris Viera (MU) def. Timur Chernykh (LU) Â 6-2, 3-6, 10-2
- Ethan Bogard (LU) def. Jason Prezant (MU) 6-1, 6-2
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