Newbury drops conference match to Mitchell College

The Newbury College men’s tennis team fell to NECC opponent Mitchell College Thursday afternoon, 9-0, in Chestnut Hill, MA.  Junior Kyle Carmona (Norwich, CT) led the way for the Mariners picking up wins in both number one singles and number one doubles without dropping a single set. 

Mitchell started off the contest on the right foot, as they swept Newbury in doubles, 3-0.  In the number one doubles spot, Carmona and partner Rocco Devona (Waterford, CT) defeated Newbury’s Gerard Font-Raventos (Barcelona, Spain) and Benjamin Weiner (Barrington, RI), 8-0, while teammates Tyler Engleberg (Niantic, CT)  and Alex Fusco (Saugus, MA) would go on to beat Jarryl McKey (Brooklyn, NY) and Tim Anderson (Plaistow, NH), 8-1.  Rounding out doubles play, Mitchell’s Adam Samuels (New Rochelle, NY) and Andrew Small (Westerly, RI) defeated Sean Haight and Ryan Maliff (Ashford, MA), 8-1 also.  

In singles play, Carmona continued to dominate as he went to defeat Font- Raventos in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0.  The number two singles game would prove to be the most competitive as Weiner battled Devona in two sets but would eventually fail to Devona 6-3, 6-2.  In the other singles matches, Engleberg defeated McKey, 6-2,6-0 in the third spot, Samuels defeated Anderson 6-0, 6-0 in the forth singles, Small defeated Alex Amylon (Scituate, RI) in the fifth spot, 6-1, 6-0 and rounding out singles play Fusco defeated Marc Jean-Jacques (Franklin Square, NY) in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0.    

The victory pushes Mitchell’s win streak to 5 while the Nighthawks are still looking for their first win of the season at 0-7.  Newbury will take to the courts next, Saturday afternoon, where they will face off against the NECC leading Lynx of Lesley University.