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Men's Tennis Downs St. Leo 9-0

ST. LEO Fla. – The Embry-Riddle men's tennis team extended is early season record to 2-0 with a 9-0 shutout of St. Leo on Wednesday.

The Eagles dropped just six games in doubles as Jan Hoekzema and Alexi Huegas defeated Pablo Chaves and Jose Morales 8-1, Istvan Bolgar and Peter Francis shut out T. Bale-Heismann and Michael Callaway 8-0 and Charlie Rice and Luke Maricic bested Yves Jacobs and Jeff Hanrahan 8-5.

Despite a shuffle in the singles line-up, the Eagles continued to dominate, registering shutouts in the No. 4 through No. 6 singles positions. Alex Perez blanked Hanrahan 6-0, 6-0, Maricic down Julian Jean-Pierre by the same margin and Zander Woodford-Smith scored the clincher with a 6-0, 6-0 victory of his own over McCallaway.

Bolgar defeated Bale-Heismann 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3, Huegas topped Chavez 6-4, 6-1 at the top spot and Rice pulled out a 6-0, 7-6 (1) win over Morales in his first match at the No. 2 position.

The Eagles play their first conference match of the season at 3 p.m. on Friday when they travel to Miami Gardens to take on St. Thomas.
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