April 14, 2007

Final Stats

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - After narrowly winning the doubles point, the Navy tennis won each of the six singles matches in straight sets to record a 7-0 victory over Lehigh, Saturday afternoon in Bethlehem, Pa. The win for Navy was its six straight and improves its record to 11-9 on the year, while Lehigh fell to 2-11 on the season with the loss.

The Mids will close their regular season Sunday afternoon with the Star Match at Army.

"We played okay today," said Navy head coach John Officer. "It was not our best effort, but we were pleased with being able to win all of the points."

The doubles point came down to the match at No. 1 between Navy's team of Nate Nelms (So., St. Mary's, Ga.) and Johnny Waters (So., Papillion, Neb.) and the Lehigh duo of Alfredo Fernandez-Concha and Brent Nelson. The match would be extended into a tiebreaker, with the Mids eventually prevailing in the breaker by a score of 7-4 to give Navy the doubles point.

The Mids proceeded win all six of the singles matches in straight sets to close out the contest. Alex James (Jr., Visalia, Calif.) and Ramsey Lemaich (Fr., Danville, Calif.) both lost just one game in winning their respective matches at Nos. 5 and 6 singles, while Nelms handed Fernandez-Concha a 6-4, 6-4 loss at No. 1 singles. It marked the first setback of the league season for Fernandez-Concha.

Navy (11-9, 3-0) def. Lehigh (2-11, 1-3)
Doubles (Navy wins the doubles point)
1 - Nelms/Waters (N) def. Fernandez-Concha/Nelson, 9-8 (7-4)
2 - Balshi/Herbert (L) def. Kahl/Lai, 8-3
3 - James/Lemaich (N) def. Caminiti/Nespoli, 8-6

Singles
1 - Nate Nelms (N) def. Alfredo Fernandez-Concha, 6-4, 6-4
2 - Johnny Waters (N) def. John Nespoli, 6-4, 6-4
3 - Adrian Lai (N) def. Andrew Balshi, 6-2, 6-2
4 - Stanley Kahl (N) def. Brent Herbert, 7-5, 6-2
5 - Alex James (N) def. Michael Gordon, 6-0, 6-1
6 - Ramsey Lemaich (N) def. Evan Volkman, 6-0, 6-1