CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Citadel men's tennis team opened its home Southern Conference slate on Tuesday afternoon with a loss to the now 8-4 Samford University Bulldogs, 7-0.

The match of the day for The Citadel came at 6-singles where Robins took his opponent to an extra game in the first set before responding to take the second. He'd ultimately fall in the third by a narrow 4-6 margin.

Singles Competition
1 Maxwell Giddens (SAM) def. Hayden Shoemake (CIT), 6-3, 6-3
2 Sandeep Mohandoss (SAM) def. Sebastian Kamieniecki (CIT), 6-3, 6-3
3 Darcy Nicholls (SAM) def. Teo Cariov (CIT), 6-4, 7-5
4 Maksim Bogdanovich (SAM) def. Noah Van Dyke (CIT), 6-1, 6-2
5 J.B. Pickard (SAM) def. Ted Bagwell (CIT), 6-1, 6-0
6 Sebastian Harrison (SAM) def. Lucas Robins (CIT), 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
 
Doubles Competition
1 Maxwell Giddens/Sandeep Mohandoss (SAM) def. Hayden Shoemake/Sebastian Kamieniecki (CIT), 6-1
2 J.B. Pickard/Santiago Arredondo (SAM) def. Ted Bagwell/Teo Cariov (CIT), 7-6
3 Will Gray/Darcy Nicholls (SAM) def. Lucas Robins/Noah Van Dyke (CIT),6-1

Up Next:

The Citadel remains home when it welcomes UNC Greensboro to the Earle Tennis Center on Friday, March 8 at 1:30 pm.