College Men’s Tennis Final – Guilford 9, Hampden-Sydney 0

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. – Guilford College’s men’s tennis team won its fourth straight match and moved to 5-1 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Wednesday with a 9-0 triumph at Hampden-Sydney College.

The Tigers (1-8, 0-4 ODAC) dropped their eighth straight decision.

Guilford won two of the three doubles points by 8-1 decisions. The Quakers’ top tandem of Turner Votipka and Erik Meiler won, 8-1, as did Guilford’s third-doubles pair of Levi Bruff and Mason Church. Mesa Martorell and Mason Church downed the Tigers’ Trent Singleton and Nathan Horvit, 8-3.

Votipka shut out Singleton, 6-0, in the first set of the first singles match before Singleton mounted a challenge in the second set before falling, 6-4. Meiler did not lose a game at second singles in a 6-0, 6-0, victory over Patrick Bryant. Chasen Chacon also had a shutout victory at sixth singles against Hampden-Sydney’s Myshake Abdi.

Smedley lost just one game in a third-singles triumph and Martorell was another double winner with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Horvit at fourth singles.

Coach Dave McCain’s Quakers visit league-rival Lynchburg College Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Tennis Match Results
Guilford vs Hampden-Sydney
Mar 25, 2015 at Hampden-Sydney, VA
(H-SC Tennis Courts)
Guilford 9, Hampden-Sydney 0

Singles competition
1. Turner Votipka (GC) def. Trent Singleton (HSC) 6-0, 6-4
2. Erik Meiler (GC) def. Patrick Bryant (HSC) 6-0, 6-0
3. Aaron Smedley (GC) def. David Anderson (HSC) 6-1, 6-0
4. Mesa Martorell (GC) def. Nathan Horvit (HSC) 6-3, 6-2
5. John Brvenik (GC) def. Jed Dittmar (HSC) 6-0, 6-1
6. Chasen Chacon (GC) def. Myshake Abdi (HSC) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. Turner Votipka/Erik Meiler (GC) def. Patrick Bryant/David Anderson (HSC) 8-1
2. Mesa Martorell/Aaron Smedley (GC) def. Trent Singleton/Nathan Horvit (HSC) 8-3
3. Levi Bruff/Mason Church (GC) def. Jed Dittmar/Myshake Abdi (HSC) 8-1

Match Notes:
Guilford 6-3, 5-1 ODAC
Hampden-Sydney 1-8, 0-4 ODAC
T-1:32
A-18