Box Score

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (February 17, 2013) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's tennis team opened its 2013 slate with a tightly contested 7-2 loss to 18th-ranked Carnegie Melon University Sunday in Allentown, Pa. The Ducks were led by senior captain Chris Rosensteel (East Windsor, N.J.) who earned a win at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles with freshman partner Matthew Heinrich (Hendersonville, Tenn.).

Despite coming up on the short end, two singles matches went the distance and the two doubles defeats were by a combined three games.
 
Rosensteel and Heinrich earned an 8-6 win over senior Duke Miller (Poway, Calif.) and Kosuke Hasegawa (Sunnyvale, Calif.) in first doubles. Freshman Ben Foran (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and senior Shota Tasaki (Greenwich, Conn.) dropped an extremely tight 9-8 match in second doubles, with sophomore Nicholas Rosasco (Alpine, N.J.) and freshman Tyler Tisdale (Grapevine, Texas) falling 8-6 in third doubles.
 
Rosensteel earned the only singles win out of the No. 1 slot, 6-4, 7-6 (16) over Christian Heaney-Secord (Sunnyvale, Calif.), but other Ducks played well. Heinrich fell 6-4, 6-4 out of the second slot to Abhishek Alla (Hyderbad, India), with Tasaki dropping a 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 marathon to Yuvraj Kumar (New Delhi, India) in fourth singles. In fifth singles, Tisdale fell in a hotly contested match to Hasegawa, 4-6, 6-4, 10-7.
 
The Ducks will look to get in the win column February 27 when they visit Haverford College at 4 p.m.
 
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