NEW LONDON, Conn. - Coast Guard lost their second-straight earlier today in a 1-6 defeat to Trinity College (Conn.) The Bears move to 0-2, while Trinity opens their season with a win. The Bantams will host Bowdoin College tomorrow in the Polar Bears' season opener.
Coast Guard's top duo of
Ben Bonetto (Bend, Oreg.) and team captain
Brendan Love (Winchester, Va.) suffered their first doubles loss of the season, falling in a 3-6 result to the Bantams top duo of
Jack Ginter (Phoenixville, Pa.) and
Axel Edstrom (Stockholm, Sweden). At no. 2 doubles, the Bears' freshman duo of
Anthony Gregoire (Hagatna, Guam) and
Konnor Eslinger (St. Charles, Mo.) fell to
Brandon Felcher (Westport, Conn.) and
Pierce Rutledge (Chicago, Ill.), 4-6.
In singles action, Bonetto secured the lone victory of the day for the Bears and his first individual win of the season with his 2-0 (6-3, 7-6) win over
John Pope (New York, N.Y.) in the top singles match of the day. Love and Eslinger would fall in their respective no. 2 and no. 4 singles matches; both competitors posted 0-2 (2-6, 3-6) results in a pair of hard-fought matches.
Full results from each match can be found below:
DOUBLES
No. 1 - TRIN Ginter & Edstrom def. CGA Bonetto & Love, 6-3
No. 2 - TRIN Felcher & Rutledge def. CGA Eslinger & Gregoire, 6-4
No. 3 - TRIN
Bud Fisher (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) &
Ben Singer (Chappaqua, N.Y.) def. CGA
Benjamin Carlander (Monument, Colo.) &
Darsha Irugalbandara (Kurunegala, Sri Lanka), 6-0
SINGLES
No. 1 - CGA Bonetto def. TRIN Pope, 2-0 (6-3, 7-6)
No. 2 - TRIN
Luca Garbati (Holland Landing, Ontario) def. CGA Love, 2-0 (6-2, 6-3)
No. 3 - TRIN
Andrew Nelson (Cohasset, Mass.) def. CGA Gregoire, 2-0 (6-1, 6-0)
No. 4 - TRIN Ginter def. CGA Eslinger, 2-0 (6-2, 6-3)
No. 5 - TRIN
Keyon'Dre Clarke (Kingston, Jamaica) def. CGA Carlander, 2-0 (6-2, 6-2)
No. 6 - TRIN
Marcus Carlsson (Alingsas, Sweden) def. CGA Irugalbandara, 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
Next up for the Bears is their spring break trip down in Orlando during which they'll have three matches, the first of which occurs on March 8th against Mary Hardin-Baylor at the UTSA National Campus.
