THE BASICS:

- Scores:
 

No. 29 MIT – 8, Skidmore – 1
 

No. 29 MIT – 6, Coast Guard – 3
 

- Records:
 

MIT (12-3, 4-0 NEWMAC), Skidmore (3-9), Coast Guard (7-4, 2-1 NEWMAC)
 

- Location: Cambridge, Mass (DuPont Tennis Courts)
 

- The Lead: The 29th-ranked MIT men's tennis team defeated Skidmore on Friday night, 8-1 and NEWMAC rival Coast Guard on Saturday afternoon, 6-3.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED vs SKIDMORE
 

- The Engineers won all three doubles and five out of six singles as the Thoroughbreds grabbed No. 6 singles.
 

- Senior Joseph Li (Naperville, Ill.) and Junior Ryan Xiao (Cary, N.C.) grabbed the first win of the match with an 8-3 victory in No. 3 doubles over Adel Aissaoui and Kyle Lundberg. First years Shrish Choudhary (Fremont, Calif.) and Siddharth Marathe (Pune India) followed in the No. 2 position defeating Louis Bourn and Griffin Biernat, 8-5. Graduate student Daniel Papacica (Carmel, Calif.) and first-year Grant Gallagher (Irvine, Calif.) ended doubles competition with an 8-4 victory in the top slot against Yuval Goodman and Nika Mori.
 

- Xiao started off singles competition with a win over Borun 6-0, 6-1 in No. 1 singles. Marathe followed in No. 2 singles, beating Goodman 6-2, 6-3. Li defeated Fletcher King 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 4 position followed by Choudhary 6-1, 6-4 win over Mori. Gallagher ended the singles competition with a gritty win in No. 5 singles dropping the opening set 4-6 and winning the next two 4-6, 7-6, and 10-8 against Lundberg.
 

HOW IT HAPPENED vs COAST GUARD
 

- Coast Guard took a win in No. 1 doubles, but MIT won the rest of double matches 8-3. In the No. 3 slot Li and Xiao kicked off the day victorious against Brendan Love and Logan De Los Santos and in the No. 2 spot Choudhary and Marathe ended doubles competition defeating Sean Dreher and Benjamin Bonetto.
 

- MIT won four out of six singles matches as Coast Guard picked up a win in No. 2 and No. 4 singles. Gallagher kicked things off with a 6-2, 6-1 win against Love in six doubles, as Choudhary followed in five doubles with a 6-3, 6-3 win over De Los Santos.
 

- Xiao defeated Dreher in three singles, 6-1, 6-1 while senior Kailas Kahler (Pawtucket, R.I.) secured the last point for the Engineers with a 6-3, 6-4 in the top slot against Myles Decoste.
 

UP NEXT:
 

- MIT returns to the courts on Monday, April 15 as they travel to Springfield, Mass to take on NEWMAC rival Springfield College for a 3:30 P.M. start.
 

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