Box Score NEWBERG, Ore. — Lewis & Clark College men's tennis capped its fall championship weekend with a standout doubles run and several deep singles performances at the 2025 ITA Northwest Regional Championship, hosted Friday through Sunday at George Fox University.
Junior
Noah Sutin and senior
Kai Wills advanced through four rounds to reach the doubles championship match, while first-year
Kaden Sigurdsson paced the Pioneers in singles by reaching the "A" Main Draw quarterfinals. Nine different players tallied victories across the three-day tournament.
HOW IT HAPPENED
DOUBLES RECAP
Sutin and Wills were the story of the weekend, stringing together four straight wins to earn a spot in Sunday's doubles final as the No. 5 seed. They opened with commanding 8-1 wins over Puget Sound's Sam Lowery and Sebastian Silverstein and Pacific's Alexander Kinoshita and Steele Toguchi.
In the quarterfinals, the duo upset top-seeded Guillermo Rodriguez and Alexander Stage of Whitman, cruising to an 8-3 victory. The win marked the third straight competition in which the Pioneers had beaten the Blues' top pairing, after sweeping both regular-season meetings at first doubles last year.
The semifinal proved tighter, but Sutin and Wills battled past Linfield's Brooks Lerfald and Zac Nakajima, the No. 4 seeds, 8-6 to reach the final. Their run ended against Whitman's Artem Manov and Charles Rush, who prevailed 6-4, 6-1. Still, the Pioneers' finish was the program's best at ITAs since brothers Brenden and Gordon Barrows placed second in 2017.
Elsewhere in doubles, sophomore
Arnav Bishnoi and senior
Landon Cronin reached the consolation final, posting three wins—including back-to-back 8-1 victories—before falling 8-3 to Pacific's Ryley Chang and Joshua Dela Cruz. Juniors
Max Furman and
Bridger Galyardt also added a consolation win, 8-6 over George Fox's Luis Hernandez and Bernardo Martinez.
SINGLES RECAP
Sigurdsson led the way in singles after earning the No. 8 seed and a first-round bye. He defeated Pacific's Dawson Hose (6-4, 5-7, 1-0 [10-4]) in his opener and rallied past No. 11 seed Joey Henderson of Linfield (4-6, 6-2, 6-2) to reach the quarterfinals. His run ended against eventual finalist Stage, 6-3, 6-3.
Sutin, Furman and senior
Spencer Loucks also picked up main-draw wins. Sutin outlasted Whitworth's Matt Hossack in a third-set tiebreaker (6-0, 1-6, 1-0 [10-6]) before falling to Manov in the round of 16. Furman topped Whitman's Landon LaBrie 6-3, 6-1, and Loucks defeated Linfield's Nick Owens by the same score.
In consolation play, Cronin advanced to the quarterfinals on a pair of walkovers, while Bishnoi moved through the opening rounds before retiring in his second match. A bonus bracket on Sunday saw Furman dominate Henderson 6-0, 6-3 before dropping a tight three-setter to Hossack (5-7, 6-1, 1-0 [10-8]).
First-year
Aslan Gemuhluoğlu added a straight-set win in the B Draw, topping Willamette's Jake Freeland 6-1, 6-4 before exiting in the round of 16.
WHAT'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark has concluded its fall tournament schedule. The Pioneers return to competition in February when the dual-match season begins.
