SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Harding men's tennis fell 9-0 to 17th-ranked Drury on Monday at the Cooper Tennis Complex. The loss dropped the Bisons to 4-3 on the season ahead of Harding's NCAA Division II Central Region matchup with 25th-ranked Northwest Missouri State on Thursday.
Harding was competitive in all three doubles matches, with the closest match coming at No. 3. Bisons Adam Edwards and Helio Hashimoto fell 8-6 to Jorg Nadal-Volckaert and Sebastian Zapata. Harding's No. 1 team of Kittibodee Singnil and Jon Mark Rowden fell 8-4 to Roman Gonda and Lukas Kriem, the 19th-ranked doubles team in Division II.
Drury (4-0) won all six singles matches in straight sets. Rowden took on Andy Blair, Division II's 30th-ranked singles player, and fell 6-1, 6-3.
Drury University 9, Harding 0
Feb 18, 2013 at Springfield, Missouri (Cooper Tennis Complex)
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Singles competition
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1. Gonda,Roman (DU) def. Kittibodee Singnil (HU) 6-3, 6-3
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2. Blair,Andy (DU) def. Jon Mark Rowden (HU) 6-1, 6-3
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3. Kriem,Lukas (DU) def. Alex Ford (HU) 6-0, 6-2
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4. Manzanas,Sergio (DU) def. Helio Hashimoto (HU) 6-2, 6-0
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5. Nadal-Volckaert,Jorg (DU) def. Mosquera-Carrascosa (HU) 6-3, 6-3
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6. Zapata,Sebastian (DU) def. Caleb McReynolds (HU) 6-3, 6-3
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Match Notes
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Drury University 4-0
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