The Longwood men’s tennis team competed in tight sets, but ultimately fell to the Winthrop Eagles, the defending Big South champions, in a 7-0 loss at home over the weekend.
Three of the singles matches went to the third set, but the championship caliber Eagles prevailed, simultaneously picking up their first conference win and snapping a three-match losing streak.
For the Lancers, sophomore Alfonso Castellano and junior Florian Uffer both won their first sets 7-5 and 7-6 before dropping the last two. Freshman Julian Farthing took his second set 6-4, splitting Winthrop senior Michael Chen's set wins at the No. 1 spot.
"Playing the Big South defending champs is never an easy thing to do, but we definitely showed them the improvements that Longwood men's tennis has made over the past seven months," said Longwood head coach Pierre Tafelski on the Longwood athletics official website. "The guys competed extremely hard and pushed them to the brink at Nos. 1-3 in singles. We believe in ourselves, which doesn't stop us from competing against the top teams in our conference."
The men’s tennis team hits the road on Tuesday, March 22 for three consecutive matches after back-to-back home matches.