BRISTOL, R.I. — It was a beautiful day for a showdown between the top two teams in the Commonwealth Coast Conference as he Roger Williams University Men's Tennis team battled Nichols College to a 7-2 defeat on Thursday evening at the RWU Tennis Courts. The Hawks saw their ten-game in-conference winning streak come to an end.
 
With the loss, RWU drops to 11-2 on the season and 5-1 in CCC play. The Bison, meanwhile, move to 10-5 and 4-0 against conference foes.
 
Hawk Highlights
Roger Williams would find themselves in an early hole as they dropped the second and third flights of doubles action in this one. In #2 doubles, Adrian Toderascu (Chisinau, Moldova) and Steven Kuang (Guangzhou, China) bested Ryan Schuck (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Johnny Baldyga (Simsbury, Conn.), 8-1. Meanwhile, in the #3 doubles match, Moritz Kern (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Caio Dieckmann (Rio De Janiero, Brazil) handled Matt Glassman (West Hartford, Conn.) and Tyler Cain (Montpelier, Vt.), 8-3. The match in the topflight would see some of the best players in the conference going toe-to-toe and it was as advertised as Jon Trevethan (Berlin, Conn.) and Dan Tocco (East Quogue, N.Y.) went blow-for-blow with Giancomo Ghitti (Brescia, Italy). They required a lot of tennis to come to a result in this one and sure enough it was the Hawks who were able to hold off the Bison, 8-6.
 
Needing a huge comeback in singles action, RWU would come up short. In the topflight Trevethan dropped his first match in nearly a month to Glutti, 6-3, 7-5. #2 singles would see Tocco go the distance against Trevor Schwarzmann (Dartmouth, Mass.) but ultimately fell, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. In the third flight, Glassman got blanked by Toderascu, 6-0, 6-0. Alongside them, in the fourth flight, Schuck fell to Kerr, 6-4, 6-4. In the #5 singles matchup, Baldyga grabbed RWU's only singles win over Perez, 4-6, 6-4, 10-3. Finally, down on the bottom court in the sixth flight, Arlex Correa (Lynnfield, Mass.) lost to Jose Siles (Lima, Peru), 6-0, 6-0.
 
What's Next
Roger Williams gets a much needed few days off following the marathon in this one as they will not return to the court again until Tuesday, April 19^th when they will travel to play Wentworth beginning at 4:00 PM.