TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Baltimore, Md. (September 24, 2021)—The Mount St. Mary's men's tennis team had a pair of teams advance to the quarterfinals on the opening day of the Loyola Men's Tennis Invitational. 
The tournament features four doubles teams from each school playing a best-of-three format that includes a doubles match and then a pair of singles matches.

The Mount's duo of Elliot Stevens and Giovanni Abriola posted a 3-0 win over Loyola's Gustavo Rotundo and Tyler Mast.  Stevens and Abriola won the doubles point, 6-3, with each Mountaineer winning in straight sets in singles action.

The Mount's tandem of Fillipos Zacchiotis and Justin Karnibad cruised to a 3-0 win over a pair from Harford Community College.  The Mount's trio of Pablo Martinez Zuccardi, Jacob Berg and Ryan Isgett lost their first round match, 3-0 to a duo from Johns Hopkins.  The duo of Marcel Cronin and Russell Armstrong also lost their first round matchup to a pair from Johns Hopkins, 3-0.

The quarterfinals and first round of consolations also began on Friday with all matchups completing the doubles point.  In the quarterfinals, Karnibad and Zacchiotis took a 1-0 lead over Edik Pribitkin and Matt Cardano with a 7-6 (7-1) win the doubles match.  Stevens and Abriola dropped their quarterfinal doubles point to fall behind, 1-0.  In the consolation draw, both Mount duos took 1-0 leads by taking the doubles point.

The tournament continues tomorrow beginning at 9:00 a.m.