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Adam Whitmer teamed with Chris Baum for a doubles victory. (Ray Acevedo)
Valparaiso played a hard-fought match against Connecticut
out of the Big East on Monday evening, but fell 7-0 to the Huskies in Orlando, Fla.
The Crusaders forced four
singles matches into three sets and won one doubles contest, but could not get
on the scoreboard.
“UConn is a solid team,” head
coach Jim Daugherty said. “I’m
really proud with how we played, going to three sets in a lot of matches being
that this was our second match of the day (defeated Boston University
5-2 in the morning).”
Adam Whitmer
(Shipshewana, Ind./Westview
H.S.) teamed with Chris Baum (Charlotte, N.C./Providence
H.S.) for an 8-5 victory at number two doubles against Dave Adams and Jai
Yoon. The Huskies won at both one and
three doubles though to earn the opening point.
Andrew Marcus and Scott Warden defeated Tom Litscher (Eau Claire, Wis./Memorial H.S.) and Kyle Stump (Plymouth,
Ind./Plymouth H.S.) 8-4 at the
top while Tom Cook and Joe Goldstein topped Arne Diehle (Reutlingen, Germany/Johannes Kepler H.S.) and Kevin DeHerrera (Littleton,
Colo./Chatfield H.S.) 9-7.
“There were opportunities in
doubles to win the point,” Daugherty said.
“We’re right at the threshold of winning some matches, but we can’t
quite get over it.”
Connecticut (2-3) swept the singles contests, but was forced into
four three-set matches. Marcus topped
Stump 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 at the top while Yoon was a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 winner at number
two. Warden defeated Whitmer 4-6, 7-5,
6-4 at third singles while Goldstein posted a 3-6, 7-6 (11), 10-5 win over
Deihle at number four. Adams
won against Litscher 6-4, 6-4 and Cook beat DeHerrera 6-1, 6-2 to round out the
lineup.
Valparaiso (2-6) will return to the courts in Orlando
on Tuesday to face Fairfield. First serve is set for 2 p.m. CST.
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