Bears Fall In Doubleheader at the VCU 4-1 - Morgan State University Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. – The Morgan State men's team dropped a pair of matches at the VCU-hosted 4-1 Invitational in Richmond, Va. on Saturday. The men were shutout by nationally ranked VCU Rams, 5-0, followed by a 4-1 loss to the Longwood Lancers.

The VCU men's team was ranked number 31 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) coming into the weekend's matchup.

Duk Young-Park battled at No. 1 singles against Michal Voscek before falling in the end 6-0, 7-6 (7).

"They're the No. 31 team in the country and they played like it," said Morgan State head coach Sean Holcomb-Jones. "It was good for our guys to see this level of competition so they know the work they have to do to improve to get to the highest level."

"I was impressed with Duk's play at No. 1 singles after having a rough first set he came back and was almost able to pull the upset off."

Morgan State had a better effort against Longwood, but fell to the Lancers 4-1.

Evan Ward downed Edward Becker 7-6 (4), 6-2?to notch the only singles victory of the day.

"We haven't beaten Longwood since I have been here at Morgan but today was the day we should've been able to do it," said Holcomb-Jones. "We won the first sets in 3 out of 5 matches. We need to learn how to close out matches if we want to take this program to heights it hasn't been to in recent history. We have a lot of work to do to get better."

The Morgan State men next play on Sat., Feb. 15^th on the road against the UMBC Retrievers. Play is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

VCU 5, Morgan State 0

Singles
1) Michal Voscek (VCU) def. Duk Young Park (Morgan State), 6-0, 7-6 (7)
2) Wilder Pimentel (VCU) def. Evan Ward (Morgan State), 6-1, 6-1
3) Vuk Velickovic (VCU) def. Jannick Tash (Morgan State), 6-1, 6-0
4) Jacob Svensson (VCU) def. Dmitriy Borodkin (Morgan State), 6-2, 6-0

Doubles
1) Argente/Mateo (VCU) def. J. Abraham/T. Abraham (Morgan State), 6-2, 6-2

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Morgan State 1 Longwood 4

Singles
1. Elston def. against Park 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
2. Ward def Becker 7-6 (4), 6-2
3. Johnson def. against Tash 6-3, 6-2
4. Bryan def. against Borodkin 7-5, 6-2

Doubles
Sankar/Fudge def. against Abraham/Abraham 3-6, 6-4, 3-2 ret.

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