{"id":615803,"date":"2026-04-18T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:09:11","slug":"mens-tennis-drops-regular-season-finale-at-lehigh-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615803\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Tennis Drops Regular-Season Finale at Lehigh, 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The Bucknell men&#8217;s tennis team was clipped 4-3 by Lehigh on Saturday on the final day of the regular season. The Bison head into next week&#8217;s Patriot League Tournament at 11-11 overall and 2-2 in league play. The seedings will be announced by the league office this week, with the tournament right back at Lehigh starting with an opening-round match on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/amar-tahirovic\/10480\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10480\" target=\"_blank\">Amar Tahirovic<\/a> was a two-time winner on Saturday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/brendan-mcdonald\/10477\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10477\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan McDonald<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/will-robinson\/10478\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10478\" target=\"_blank\">Will Robinson<\/a> also won their singles matches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTahirovic and <a href=\"https:\/\/bucknellbison.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/adam-stavrakas\/10479\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10479\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Stavrakas<\/a> started the day with a 6-3 win over Sean Jaeger and Alex Van Lumich at No. 1 doubles. Lehigh quickly followed with a 6-2 win at No. 3 and then took the doubles point when Wyeth Anzilotti and Henry Stoller won a tiebreaker at No. 2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTahirovic downed Jaeger 6-3, 6-3 at No. 1 singles to move within one of Bucknell&#8217;s all-time record. He now has 111 career singles wins, one shy of Nick Bybel&#8217;s record of 112.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMcDonald downed Ofer Hacochen 6-2, 7-5 at No. 5, and Robinson won 7-5, 6-7, 10-7 at No. 6. Lehigh earned straight-set wins in the 2-3-4 spots to claim the win, with Kosei Ogata clinching it at No. 4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The Bucknell men&#8217;s tennis team was clipped 4-3 by Lehigh on Saturday on the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-615803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}