Cougar Men Make it Two in a Row, Defeat Winthrop 4-3 - CofCSports.com--Official Web site of College of Charleston Athletics

Friday, February 17

Rock Hill, SC

2pm

College of Charleston

Winthrop

Cougar Men Make it Two in a Row, Defeat Winthrop 4-3 - CofCSports.com--Official Web site of College of Charleston Athletics

2/17/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

#articleRelated { display: none !important; } Two-time Big South defending champions Winthrop men's tennis (0-3) team fell against College of Charleston 3-4 at home this Friday afternoon.

The Cougars (2-1) started the match by taking the doubles point home with wins at the first and third matches. The duo of Alejandro Portugal and Jorge Padilla picked up Winthrop's only win.

Pushed by sophomore Vinicius Bortolatto, the Eagles posted three wins in singles play. Bortolatto at number one, sophomores Rodrigo Santos at number two and Portugal at number four left the court victorious, but College of Charleston's three wins gave the scoreboard final numbers.

Winthrop's next match will be at home against NAIA school Auburn-Montgomery on Sunday at 11:00 a.m. The Cougars host Davidson the 25th in their SoCon opener at 2:00 p.m.

College of Charleston 4, Winthrop 3

Singles competition:
1. Vinicius Bortolatto (WU) def. Or Dekel (COC) 6-4, 6-4
2. Rodrigo Santos (WU) def. Marcos Digliodo (COC) 7-5, 6-2
3. Justin Malina (COC) def. Jorge Padilla (WU) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
4. Alejandro Portugal (WU) def. Omer Abramovich (COC) 6-1, 6-2
5. Nike Reynolds (COC) def. Arthur Takahashi (WU) 6-3, 6-1
6. Ashok Ramachandra (COC) def. Thiago Barbosa (WU) 6-4, 7-5

Doubles competition:
1. Or Dekel/Marcos Digliodo (COC) def. Vinicius Bortolatto/Germano Knorr (WU) 8-5
2. Alejandro Portugal/Jorge Padilla (WU) def. Nike Reynolds/Omer Abramovich (COC) 8-6
3. Justin Malina/Jim Petit (COC) def. Rodrigo Santos/Arthur Takahashi (WU) 9-7