SALEM, Ore. – By sweeping the Willamette Bearcats, 9-0 on Saturday at the Salem Tennis & Swim Club, the Linfield Wildcats pick up their first win of the season.
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Linfield is now 1-3 on the season and 1-1 in Northwest Conference play, the Bearcats are 0-3 overall and 0-2 in NWC play.
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"We played a complete match from beginning to end today," said coach
Ben Belletto. "It's good to get a win, but there's still ways to go."
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DOUBLES
All three doubles matches were won by Linfield and the score of 8-3 in each match. Wildcats tandem of
Michael Manion and
Cameron Ventura defeated Gene Perle-Jones and Andrew Kabacy at No. 1 singles.
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Will Worth and
Ethan Myers were victorious over Andrew Kropp and Quentin Nigbur at second doubles and Linfield's No. 3 doubles team of
Blake Fuentes Gilbert and
Josef Shum won over Luke Hiserman and Jordan Megiveron. First doubles was the first match to finish, followed by third and second doubles was the last to finish.
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SINGLES
Fuentes Gilbert downed Kabacy at first singles by a score of 7-5, 6-2. It was the fourth match to finish. Manion went into the tiebreaker in the first set at No. 2 singles, he won the tiebreaker 7-2 and won the second set 6-3 over Gene Perle-Jones, their match finished third.
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Worth won the first set at third singles, 6-2 over Nigbur, who won the second set, 6-2. Worth came back to win the third set, 6-3 in the last match to finish. Ventura cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 win over Hiserman in the first singles match to finish.
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Shum won 6-0, 6-3 over Kropp at fifth singles and Myers won in three sets over Megiveron at the last singles spot, first set was won by Megiveron, 7-5. Myers won the second in a tiebreaker, 7-4 and won the super tiebreaker in the third, 10-7.
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"Cameron and Michael played great today in singles and doubles. Blake played a smart match against a very good opponent," added Belletto.
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UP NEXT
Linfield heads to Walla Walla, Washington, to take on Whitman on Saturday, March 20 at 1 p.m.
