NEW LONDON, Conn. — 

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy tennis team concluded their fall action on Saturday with exhibition play at the Springfield Invitational, hosted by Springfield College.

Coast Guard battled Colby-Sawyer College and Nichols College. Logan Kwon (University Place, Wash.) & Noah Reice (Wilmington, Del.) were the sole Bears pairing to win doubles matches on the day, picking up a 7-4 victory against Chargers duo Alexander Norris & Max Biederman at #4 before moving up to defeat the Bison's Andrew Emmel & Joshua Zenczak by a 6-2 margin at #3.

Team ace Ben Bonneto (Bend, Oreg.) was joined by Konnor Eslinger (St. Charles, Mo.) as the only Bears to win both of their singles matches. Bonetto defeated Colby-Sawyer's top product Ashton Meuse with scores of 6-3, 6-2 before picking up a pair of 6-4 set victories against Nichols' Nikolas Bertrams; Eslinger defeated Jacob Riis of the Chargers by 7-6, 6-2 decisions at #4 before prevailing over Emmel at #4 in a three-set match with scores of 7-6, 2-6, 10-3.

Also picking up a singles win was Benjamin Carlander (Monument, Colo.), who defeated Bison William Bergendahl at #5 with a pair of 6-1 set victories.

Bears men's tennis will be back in the spring.