Winston-Salem State Box Score

Longwood Box Score
 

FARMVILLE, VA – The NJIT men's tennis team finished with a 3-1 record at the 2010 Division I Independent Men's Tennis Tournament Friday evening in the team's season finale.

The Highlanders, who recorded two 4-1 victories in the tournament opener Thursday, continued their momentum Friday morning with a 4-0 win over Winston-Salem State.  In the nightcap, NJIT suffered its first loss of the tournament against host Longwood, 4-1.

The Highlanders (18-7) recorded its only point of the match against host Longwood taking the doubles contests.  Carl Lundquist and Diego Abreu were 8-4 winners over Billy Heird and Marc Ferrigno at first doubles while Stephen Erickson and Bryan Keelan were also 8-4 winners at third doubles defeating Adham Halabi and M. Barajas-Alexander.

Longwood (11-9) picked up four wins in the singles competition to down the Highlanders, 4-1.  Lundquist , NJIT's closest singles match, fought out a three-set tilt at second singles falling 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to Longwood's Ferrigno.

NJIT got the early one-point lead after doubles action, taking two matches from Winston-Salem State.  The number two doubles team of Stephen Erickson and Bryan Keelan were 8-2 winners over Troy Moore and Mason King.  At third doubles, Fraser Croad and Dan Salomon picked up an 8-1 victory over Joab Odera and Calvin Brooks.

In singles action, the Highlanders won each match in straight sets to clinch the victory.  Senior captain Cosmin Chiujdea was a 6-1, 6-1 winner of Ian Hunter at second singles while Salomon posted his second win of the day with a dominating performance over Antentor Hinton, 6-0, 6-0.  Keelan capped off the match with a 6-1, 6-0 victory at the sixth spot over Mason King for the Highlanders third win of the tournament.

The final standings for the 2010 Division I Independent Men's Tennis Tournament: Longwood – 4-0
NJIT – 3-1, Seattle – 2-2, N.C. Central – 1-3 and Winston-Salem State – 0-4.  

The all-Tournament team consisted of: Billy Heird, Longwood, Stephen Erickson, NJIT
Jose Fabara, N.C. Central, Yusuke Kanehira, Seattle and Brian Coxton, Winston-Salem State.
Nobu Tanaka from Longwood was named Tournament MVP.

The 18 wins were the most in a season for the Highlanders since they began playing a Division I schedule in 2006.  The previous two years NJIT tallied 11 wins.

Three seniors close out their career at NJIT – Stephen Erickson, Cosmin Chiujdea and Dimitri Athans.