Box Score PORTLAND, Ore.—Senior
Matt Chio and sophomores
Noah Sutin and
Joey Lyon all went 2-0, to help Lewis & Clark College men's tennis cap off a 3-0 weekend to start Northwest Conference play.
THE BASICS
Lewis & Clark 5, Pacific 2
(Lewis & Clark 6-1, NWC 3-0)
(Pacific 1-1, NWC 1-1)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Lewis & Clark won six of the nine matches to wrap up the weekend atop the NWC Standings at 3-0.
Lewis & Clark took the doubles point for the fifth-consecutive match.
The Pioneers second doubles pair of Sutin and Lyon opened the match with a 6-4 win over Joshua Kyle Dela Cruz and Ryley Chang. Chio and junior
Spencer Loucks combined for a 6-3 win at third doubles over Aidan Rooney and Alexander Kinoshita to secure the doubles point. In the final doubles match to finish, Pacific's Jonathan Nguyen and Dawson Hose secured a narrow 7-5 win over juniors
Wade McDermott and
Kai Wills.
Lewis & Clark secured the match victory with wins at the top-three singles spots.
Sutin earned a straight-set 6-2, 6-2 win over Dela Cruz to make it 2-0 Pioneers.
Lyon notched a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Joshua Matabuena to push the lead to 3-0.
Pacific earned their first point of the day at fourth singles. Nguyen earned an extremely tight 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5) win over McDermott to cut the deficit to 3-1.
Chio clinched the match win at third singles. The senior defeated Kinoshita 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 at third singles to make it 4-1.
First year
Arnav Bishnoi captured his first victory of the day at sixth singles. He earned a three-set 6-1, 2-6, 1-0 (10-8) win over Hose.
In the final match to finish, Rooney defeated Wills 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at fifth singles.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Lewis & Clark won 24 of 27 matches across three conference matches this weekend.
- Chio led all Pioneers players this weekend with five wins. He went 2-0 in singles and 3-0 in doubles.
- The Pioneers secured their third-straight win over the Boxers on Sunday. Pacific had won seven-straight in the series before Lewis & Clark swept the season series last season with a pair of 6-3 wins.
- Lewis & Clark has now won five-straight matches. During that span, they've outscored their opponents 33-2.
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark will play their first NWC road matches of the season, when they travel to take on Linfield (Saturday) and George Fox (Sunday) at 11 a.m.
