DELHI, N.Y. (March 26, 2018) – The SUNY Delhi men's tennis team went on their first road trip of the season this weekend, heading down to New York City for contests at Culinary Institute and Pratt Institute. The Broncos suffered an 8-1 defeat to the Steels on Saturday, and were edged, 5-4, by the Cannoneers Sunday afternoon.

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The number-two doubles team of Lac Van and Marcos Andrino earned Delhi's first match win of the season, defeating Eduardo Guevara and Silas Bonczyk by an 8-4 score. Despite exiting the doubles competition down only 2-1, the Broncos were swept in the singles round. Though the top three singles matches did produce close contests. Robert Zawadzki was edged by Cassidy Seo at number one, 10-6, while Van and Andrino both fell by 10-7 scores in the second and third singles spots, respectively.

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The men fared similarly in the doubles competition against Pratt, with the three team of Brody Rettle and Michael Zerniak pulling out the 8-5 win as the Broncos trailed 2-1. This time, however, Delhi battled back by splitting the singles matches, including Lac Van recording a three-set win in the two spot against Hubert Chen. Van answered back from a 6-3 loss in set one to take the remaining two sets, 6-3 and 10-7. Jordan Fragale defeated Taeyoung Chang at five, 7-5 and 6-1, while Payton Dean downed Leo Yang in straight sets in the six spot by matching 7-5 scores.

But the Cannoneers took the remaining matches at one, three and four to win the contest. In the four spot, Marcos Andrino fought Aris Azarmsa to three sets, winning set one, 6-4, but coming up short in the last two, 6-4 and 10-4. Robert Zawadzki was blanked by Ben Erickson in straight sets at one, while Jefferson Iliev suffered 6-2 and 6-2 defeats to Simon Salazar at three.