BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Cal Poly men’s tennis concluded its Idaho road trip on a high note Saturday, once again overpowering their opponent in singles to defeat Montana State 4-1. The victory improves the Mustangs to 10-5 on the season with momentum ramping up to the upcoming conference slate.<\/p>\n
Although the match was initially supposed to take place at host site Appleton Tennis Center, it was moved to an indoor facility due to weather.<\/p>\n
The Bobcats struck first by claiming the doubles point. On court one, Jovan Lubbe and Leo Matthysen fell 6-2 to start. The Mustangs answered back at the No. 2 position, where Raz Haviv and Luc Hoeijmans cruised 6-3, but the Bobcats secured the point with a 6-3 victory at the third spot, edging Jack Cross and Sean Kamyshev.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly responded emphatically in singles, winning four completed matches in straight sets to clinch the dual.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs quickly evened the score at 1-1 when, at the top of the lineup, Jovan Lubbe delivered a powerful opening statement with a 6-2, 6-1 result. Lubbe improves to 7-5 overall with two unfinished matches and is riding a four-match win streak at singles.<\/p>\n
Leo Matthysen, thrust into No. 6 singles after Sean Kamyshev was replaced at No. 5 by Aaron Eliscu, dispatched Max Calaquian 6-2, 6-2. Matthysen is now 2-0 overall in singles with one unfinished match this season.<\/p>\n
Aaron Eliscu put Cal Poly ahead 3-1 with a commanding 6-3, 6-2 victory at the No. 5 position. The win keeps Eliscu unbeaten since Feb. 28 and improves his impressive singles record to a team-leading 9-2 overall on the season.<\/p>\n
Jack Cross sealed the team victory at No. 4 singles 6-3, 6-1, pushing his overall singles record to 8-5 on the year and tying Luc Hoeijmans for second on the team.<\/p>\n
Two matches went unfinished with the team result already decided. At No. 2 singles, Luc Hoeijmans led Andre Stewart 6-3, 4-4, while at No. 3, Raz Haviv was ahead of Oumar Diallo 7-5, 4-1 when play was halted.<\/p>\n
With finals week on the horizon at Cal Poly, the Mustangs take next week to rest before hosting Denver at Ronca Tennis Center on Monday, March 23 at 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Cal Poly men’s tennis concluded its Idaho road trip on a high note Saturday, once…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-537376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}