ORANGE, Calif. -- The Brandeis men's tennis team, ranked #28 in Division III, opened its 2016 spring season with a convincing 9-0 win over #38 Chapman University in the first of a three match swing through California. The Judges (1-0) got a strong showing from a junior returning to action and two rookies in the win in defeating the Panthers (1-1).
DOUBLES
- Juniors Ryan Bunis (Cincinnati, Ohio / Groton-Dunstable, Mass.) and Brian Granoff (Miami, Fla. / Gulliver Prep) opened the scoring with an 8-4 win at No. 3.
- Senior Danny Lubarsky (Cleveland, Ohio/Hawken School) teamed with rookie Jackson Kogan (Pacific Palisades, Calif. / Windward School) for an 8-2 win at No. 2.
- The No. 1 squad of juniors Michael Arguello (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood) and Jeff Cherkin (Melville, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills East) completed the doubles sweep with an 8-6 victory.
SINGLES
- Arguello earned the team's first singles point at No. 2 with a quick 6-0, 6-2 win. It was his first singles match of the '15-'16 season, having spent the fall semester abroad in Australia.
- Rookie Tyler Ng (Great Neck, N.Y. / Great Neck South) clinched the match at No. 6, 6-3, 6-0.
- Classmate Kogan added a second win on the day at No. 5, 6-0, 6-2.
- Sophomore Ethan Saal (Scarsdale, N.Y. / Abraham Joshua Heschel School) got a late break in the first set before rolling to victory at No. 4, 7-5, 6-0.
- The two tightest matches came in the top half of the lineup. Bunis bounced back from a slow first set at No. 3 to emerge in a third-set super tiebreaker, 1-6, 7-5, 10-6.
- Granoff closed out the match with a marathon with Chapman's Brett Buford, with all three sets being decided via tiebreaker. Granoff took the first set breaker, 7-4, but Buford rallied for a 10-8 win in the second. The Judge completed the day's sweep with a 10-7 super tiebreaker in the third.
UP NEXT
- Brandeis is back in action tomorrow at Cal Lutheran University, ranked #8 in the west and #34 in Division III.
