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Garnet Charger Invitational – Day 1<\/p>\n
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\n \u00a0Garnet Charger Invitational – Day 1
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<\/p>\n ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. \u2013\u00a0The Union College men’s tennis team got its 2025-26 Liberty League slate off to a good start with a 7-0 victory over Bard College on Tuesday afternoon at the Stevenson Courts.
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\nAll seven Garnet Charger entries earned a win for Union (1-0, 1-0 Liberty League), including five players earning victories on both the singles and doubles courts.
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\nThe Garnet Chargers started the day by dropping only two games in a three-match doubles sweep. At the top flight, sophomore Jesus Sosa<\/a> and first-year Simon Philip<\/a> rolled to a 6-0 win over Nicholas Oh and Thanasis Kostikas, while the third-doubles tandem of senior Christian Crowder<\/a> and sophomore Riichi Nagatake<\/a> did likewise against Peter Trimble and Ciaran Chamberlain. Junior Shreyas Kode<\/a> and first-year Reilly Fowles<\/a> completed the sweep with a 6-2 win at the second flight over Joseph Kendall and Ivan Borshchev.
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\nFowles was the first to finish his singles match, picking up a second win in his Union debut with a double-bagel win over Chamberlain at the fifth flight, and fellow newcomer Nagatake followed soon afterwards with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Joseph Kendall in fourth-singles action. Crowder clinched the wln by defeating Trimble with a pair of 6-1 sets at the sixth flight, followed seconds later by Philip’s 6-0, 6-0 blanking of Kostikas at the top flight.
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\nJunior Daniel Saxe<\/a> finished off Oh to the tune of a 6-2, 6-3 win at second singles, while Kode completed the sweep at the third flight with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Borschchev.
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\nUnion will spend the next two weekends on the home courts, beginning with the two-day Garnet Charger Invitational, set for Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Union Tennis Courts.
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