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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team posted two wins in doubles and then won three of the four singles matches that finished to defeat Vassar College, 5-2, in the Liberty League Championship Semifinals at the University of Rochester. The Engineers, the second seed, advance to play top-seeded Skidmore College on Sunday at 10am. 

RPI broke out in front with doubles wins at No. 2 and then No. 1. The first doubles team of Jarrett Regier and Brandon Mazzara won in a tiebreak, 9-8 (14-12). The Brewers captured No. 3 doubles, also in a tiebreak, 9-8 (7-5).

Rensselaer needed three wins in singles to clinch the match but lost the first one to finish and the match fell even, 2-2. Engineers' freshman McKinley Grimes then won at No. 4 in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, and classmate - and doubles partner - Matt LaBarre made it 4-2 for RPI. He won at No. 1, 6-4, 6-3. The match was clinched by senior Jarrett Regier, who won at No. 2 in three sets, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Vassar was also ahead in one of the unfinished matches and the other was tied 3-3 in the first set when Regier closed things out.

RPI, which is ranked 16th in the Northeast Region, improves to 13-4, while Vassar, the 15th-ranked team in the region, falls to 11-9. The win by Rensselaer also avenges a 5-4 regular season loss to the Brewers.


RPI 5, Vassar 2
May 03, 2014 at Rochester, N.Y. (Goergen Athletic Center) 

Singles competition

1. Matt LaBarre (RPI) def. Daniel Cooper (VAS) 6-4, 6-3

2. Jarrett Regier (RPI) def. Nick Litsky (VAS) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4

3. Christian Phelps (VAS) def. Brandon Mazzara (RPI) 6-1, 6-1

4. McKinley Grimes (RPI) def. Evan Udine (VAS) 6-2, 6-1

5. Sherman Uyeno (RPI) vs. Alexander Luckmann (VAS) 1-6, 1-1, unfinished

6. Anthony Kim (RPI) vs. Sha Huang (VAS) 3-3, unfinished

 

Doubles competition

1. Jarrett Regier/Brandon Mazzara (RPI) def. Daniel Cooper/Alexander Luckmann (VAS) 9-8 (14-12)

2. Matt LaBarre/McKinley Grimes (RPI) def. Christian Phelps/Sha Huang (VAS) 8-5

3. Nick Litsky/Evan Udine (VAS) def. Graham Harris/Sherman Uyeno (RPI) 9-8 (7-5)

 

Match Notes

Vassar 11-9; Regional ranking #15

RPI 13-4; Regional ranking #16

Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (3,4,1,2)

Liberty League Semifinals

RPI advances to championship match and will face Skidmore on Sunday at 10 a.m.