SAINT LEO, Fla. – The NCAA II team rankings as determined by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association held true on Saturday as third-ranked St. Leo (7-2) topped No. 10 Embry-Riddle (5-4) 6-3.
Saturday's play began with Thomas Grinberg and Vincent Suillerot's 8-6 upset of ERAU's seventh-ranked tandem of
Carlos Becke and
Deepak Vishavkarma at the No. 1 doubles position. The Eagles bounced back to take the remaining two doubles contests, however, as
Rodolfo Arreygue and
Luke de Caires downed Charles Benet and Willem Van Den Akker 8-6 and
Juan Ortiz Couder and
Andres Donayre edged Francisco Aparicio and Oskar Numio 9-8 (2).
While the Eagles won the doubles battle, it was the Lions who had the better of the singles match-ups. No. 44 Suillerot scored the Lions' second point with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Becke on court two, while Aparicio bounced back from an early deficit to top Vishavkarma in three sets, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.
At No. 1 singles 14
th-ranked Grinberg earned a 6-3, 6-4 victory over 18
th-ranked Ortiz Couder, and Benet scored the clinching point with a 6-3, 7-5 win against Arreygue at the fourth spot.
The Eagles' next match will be against Bethune Cookman at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Crotty Tennis Complex.