LITTLE SILVER, NJ – The Monmouth University men's tennis team won its second straight match with a 6-1 victory over visiting Delaware on Sunday afternoon at Little Silver Tennis Club.

Monmouth won five of the six singles matches and earned the doubles point to move to 9-1 in head-to-head competition this season.

Charlie Penman won in straight sets at No. 6 singles to increase his winning streak to eight consecutive singles matches.

MATCH NOTES & QUOTES 
"We had an amazing 6-1 total team with today over a future CAA rival Delaware. As a team, we really raised our overall level of tennis to secure this win. Now we will move on to a huge regional rivalry match on Wednesday at Yale."
- Head Coach Chris Leicht

Monmouth 6, Delaware 1 
3/6/2022 at Little Silver, NJ   

Singles competition 
1. Niels Van Noord (MU) def. James Wilkinson (UD) 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-4
2. Dmitry Bezborodov (MU) def. Pascal Wagemaker (UD) 6-3, 6-3
3. Gabriel Busato (MU) def. Luis Molina (UD) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
4. Alexandre Gluck (UD) def. Victor Castro (MU) 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4
5. Lucca Silva (MU) v. Pierce Gilheany (UD) 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-2
6. Charlie Penman (MU) v. Tobias Sonne (UD) 6-2, 6-3

Doubles competition 
1. Niels Van Noord / Charlie Penman (MU) v. James Wilkinson / Pierce Gilheany (UD) 6-4
2. Victor Castro / Trent Massam (MU) def. Emiliano Gonzalez / Liam Hedlund (UD) 6-3
3. Pascal Wagemaker / Guilherme Valdoleiros (UD) def. Dmitry Bezborodov / Gabriel Busato (MU) 6-1

Team Records 
Monmouth 9-1 
Delaware 3-6 
Order of finish: Doubles (3, 2, 1); Singles (6, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5) 

UP NEXT
Monmouth travels to New Haven, CT for a Wednesday matchup with Yale at 5:30 p.m.