Match Results
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Freshman
Benedikt Henning won his fifth straight singles match during Norfolk State's 6-1 loss to No. 70 William & Mary on Friday morning in men's tennis action at the Millie West Tennis Facility at William & Mary.
Henning topped Christian Cargill, the defending CAA Rookie of the Year, at the No. 1 spot in the lineup in a back-and-forth affair. Henning took the first set, 6-2, before Cargill won the second by the same 6-2 score. Then in the third set tiebreaker, Henning came out on top by a 10-7 margin.
The Tribe, though, won the other four contested singles matches and also won the doubles point due to NSU's short-handed lineup. William & Mary improved to 10-3 on the season while dropping the Spartans to 2-11.
NSU did win at No. 1 doubles, where the sophomore duo of
Antonio Pejic and
Fatehdeep Singh defeated Scott Huang and Ryan Newman, 6-3. Huang and Newman had been coming off a win over the No. 57 nationally ranked duo from Valparaiso in William & Mary's last match.
Cargill and Addison Appleby came away with the win at the second position over Henning and freshman
Dan Dumitrascu, 6-4. That win helped the Tribe win the doubles point, which included a default victory at the third position.
William & Mary also won by default at No. 6 singles. The other four singles matches were taken in straight sets.
Appleby downed Pejic at the second spot in the lineup, 6-0 and 6-2, while Alec Miller defeated Dumitrascu at No. 3 singles, 6-2 and 6-2.
In the other two matches, Singh fell to Lars de Boer, 6-4, 6-0, at the fourth spot, while freshman
Flavian Fernandez suffered a 6-2, 6-1 setback to Aidan Talcott at the No. 5 position.
"We were very happy to pick up wins at the number 1 singles and doubles positions against a nationally ranked team," said head coach
Worth Richardson. "Parlaying that into success in divisional matches will be this young team's next task."
NSU will next host Richmond on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the NSU Tennis Complex before beginning conference play later next week.
