BOX SCORE

February 4, 2023—The Mount St. Mary's men's tennis team opened the spring season with a 7-0 loss at Penn State on Saturday morning.  The Mount is 0-1 on the season.

Penn State swept the three doubles matches to secure the doubles point.  Malik Bhatnagar and Charl Morgan downed the Mount's No. 1 doubles pair of Elliot Stevens and Giovanni Abriola, 6-2.  At No. 2 doubles, Sam Bossem and Loren Byers earned a 6-2 win over the Mount's Luke Papayoanou and Marcel Cronin while the Mount's No. 3 pair of Jarrett Karnibad and Filippos Zachiotis fell to Andrei Paduraru and Pranav Nemai, 6-1.

In singles play, Stevens dropped a tough match to Byers at No. 1 by the scores of 6-4, 6-3.  Pablo Martinez Zuccardi fell to Ismail Saadi at No. 5 singles, 7-5, 6-3 while Cronin was downed by Paduraru, 6-3, 7-5, at the No. 6 spot.

Penn State now holds a 3-0 lead in the all-time series that began in 2020.  The Nittany Lions have won all three matchups by a 7-0 score.

The Mountaineers return to the court tomorrow with a pair of matches at James Madison and at Lehigh.