Men's Tennis | 3/19/2016 7:19:00 PM

DELHI, NY - The Hartwick Hawks (0-1, 0-1) were defeated in their season opener by Empire 8 rival Alfred University (2-9, 1-0) by a score of 8-1 on Saturday. The match was the Hawks' season opener played indoors at SUNY Delhi.
           
Hartwick fell behind early losing all three doubles matches. They were unable to recover during singles play. The lone win on the afternoon came from sophomore John Talbot (Middlesex, NY/Marcus-Whitman) winning convincingly at second singles 6-2, 6-0.
           
Senior Liam Brown (Suffield, CT/Suffield) played a close match dropping his decision 6-3, 6-4 to Alfred senior Matt Baloga at third singles.
           
Hartwick takes the court next during their Spring Break training trip in Hilton Head, SC against Franklin College on Tuesday, March 29.
 
Singles
1) Connor Doud (AU) defeated Krishna Patel (HC) 6-1, 6-1
2) John Talbot (HC) defeated Mike Wisniewski (AU) 6-2, 6-0
3) Matt Baloga (AU) defeated Liam Brown (HC) 6-3, 6-3
4) Kevin Volz (AU) defeated Heidi Rice (HC) 6-1, 6-3
5) Pat Brown (AU) defeated Ross Braue (HC) 7-5, 6-3
6) Sean Benoit (AU) defeated Rose Natoli (HC) 6-2, 6-2
 
Doubles
1) Doud/Baloga (AU) defeated Patel/Talbot (HC) 8-4
2) Brown/Volz (AU) defeated Braue/Brown (HC) 8-3
3) Kemper/Merrifield (AU) defeated Rice/Natoli (HC) 8-4