SPARKILL, N.Y. – The season is beginning to wind down for Post University Men's Tennis and in their final non-conference matchup of the year, the Eagles traveled west to New York for a date with St. Thomas Aquinas College on Monday afternoon. While the win streak continued for junior Dante Despontin and graduate student Gustavo Kerber in the Doubles, the win streak for the Eagles as a team could not get going as they were swept by the Spartans, 7-0.

THE BASICS

Post University 0, St. Thomas Aquinas College 7

Post University (2-10)

St. Thomas Aquinas College (11-6)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The winning ways continued for Despontin and Kerber who were moved up to the #1 Doubles for this non-conference match, beating junior Ludovico Truffelli and sophomore Ondrej Sramek by a score of 6-3. However, Post would not be able to take the Doubles point with seniors Niklas Langenfeld and Anton Andersson losing 6-2 against freshman Nathan Yacar and sophomore Don Vinz Loninoque, 6-2, in the #2 Doubles.
 
The #3 Doubles would also finish with the same score as sophomores Tobias Strauss and Josh Cronje were defeated by freshmen Henry Ronnberg and Seth Newman to give the Spartans the Doubles point and a 1-0 lead into the Singles.
 
The Singles would all be taken handedly by St. Thomas Aquinas outside of the #3 Singles with Despontin and Sramek which went to three sets. In that one, Despontin took set one, 6-3, but dropped the next two sets by scores of 6-1 which snapped his three-game winning streak in the Singles.
 
Otherwise, it was straight set sweeps across the board for the Spartans with Kerber losing 6-2 and 6-3 in the #1 Singles against Lominoque followed by the #2 Singles going to Truffelli over Andersson, 6-0 and 6-3.
 
Moving down the board, Newman dispatched Langenfeld in the #4 Singles despite a hard-fought 6-4 win in set one, taking set two with a 6-0 sweep. Cronje and Ronnberg would be the opposite as a 6-1 win in set one for Ronnberg was followed up with a 7-6 win in set two for the freshman after winning the tiebreaker, 7-1.
 
Rounding out the 7-0 sweep for the Spartans was Lehmann in the #6 Singles as he took down Kolchanov, who lost his second straight Singles match after winning three in a row, 6-0 and 6-2.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Dante Despontin is now a team-best 10-2 in doubles matches this season and since teaming up with Gustavo Kerber has won seven matches in a row
• The three-game winning streak in the Singles came to an end for Dante Despontin after falling to Ondrej Sramek in the #3 Singles today
• After winning three straight Singles matches, Ivan Kolchanov has dropped his last two Singles after falling in straight sets to Lennart Lehmann this afternoon
• In the all-time series, Post University has now lost four straight matches to the St. Thomas Aquinas and are 3-12 overall against them

WHO'S NEXT
Post University will head down to Pennsylvania for a rematch against Jefferson University in a CACC matchup scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 PM. In their first two matches of the season, the Eagles fell by scores of 7-0 on the road and then 6-1 at home. Both took place within a span of three days from each other and dropped Post to 6-16 all-time against the Rams.