WESTON, Mass.—With the Regis College men’s tennis team on the road competing in the spring break portion of its season schedule, head coach John Ciarleglio is updating us all on the teams progress while in sunny South Carolina. 

Hi All,

We had an uneventful trip down, staying Friday night in Rocky Mount, NC and drove about six hours Saturday morning arriving at our home for the week at about 3:30 p.m.  After registering at the Spring Break Tennis Headquarters, we had an hour and a half practice and grilled steak at the house for dinner.

Everyone is psyched, and that showed in our practice this morning and our first match this afternoon.  We played Defiance College (Ohio), and while we did lose 8 to 1, several of the individual matches were very competitive.  Andy White and Jeff Parrish pulled off tough wins in first doubles in a very exciting match, finally prevailing, 9 to 7.  This is the Regis men's team's first ever doubles victory.  At second doubles, Matt Smolko and Dan Berdichevsky played given a 8 to 4 loss.

In the singles matches, Jon Dost was tenacious at the six singles spot, splitting the first 2 sets -- winning the first set 6 - 3, losing the 2nd set 6 - 2 and then pushed his opponent to the brink in the super tie-break, but losing 13 --11.  The rest of the players and Paul and I have been celebrating Jon's super effort from the end of the match through dinner.  Andy White had a great match at third singles, battling for almost two hours before losing 6 - 4, 6 - 3.  Fifth singles was another competitive contest, with Mouhamed Diallo playing his best tennis ever succumbing 6 - 3, 6 -3.

We are having a “blast” to quote the guys and everyone is looking forward to Monday’s match against Lebanon Valley College!