HILTON HEAD, S.C. – Sophomores Diego Quintana (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Governor Livingston) and Boris Kocherov (Edison, N.J./Edison) earned the Ducks a win in the third doubles position, but the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s tennis team dropped a 5-2 decision to Centre on Thursday.

At third doubles, Quintana and Kocherov defeated Bennett Clark and Arion Smalley 8-5.

Junior Steve Su (Holmdel, N.J./Holmdel) opened up singles play with a win by default at the first singles position.  At second singles freshman Ricky Bawa (North Bergen, N.J./Dwight-Englewood) cruised to a 7-5, 6-1 victory over David Hise. 

Stevens is back in action when it hosts CCNY on Wednesday, March 30 at 3:30 p.m.

CENTRE 5, STEVENS 2

1st DOUBLES – Schmidt/Hayes (C) def. Bawa/Mehta                8-6

2nd DOUBLES – Arnold/Hise (C) def. Shaw/Telford                8-6

3rd DOUBLES – Quintana/Kocherov (S) def. Clark/Smalley         8-5

1st SINLGES – Steve Su (S) def. Centre                     Default

2nd SINGLES – Ricky Bawa (S) def. David Hise               7-5, 6-1

3rd SINGLES – Lon Hayes (C) def. Yuriy Stelmakh            6-1, 6-2

4th SINGLES – Arion Smalley (C) def. Diego Quintana        5-7, 6-0, (10-6)

5th SINGLES – Hariharan Vasupuram (C) def. Dave Asis       6-1, 6-0

6th SINGLES – Daniel Makela (C) def. Ian Mullican          6-3, 6-2