Box Score CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (October 22, 2024) – Five Stonehill College men's tennis team members competed this past weekend at the ITA New England Regional Tournament at the Beren Tennis Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 
Representing the Skyhawks at the ITA Regional Tournament were senior Jacob Wilhelm Krefting, junior Mark Kröll, sophomore Jacob Borch-Nielsen, as well as the freshmen pairing of Guillermo Bennaton and Nicolas Arredondo.
 
Bennaton and Borch-Nielsen opened competition on Thursday and Friday in singles play. Bennaton matched up against senior Alex Knox-Jones of Dartmouth College in the qualifying draw on Thursday, while Borch-Nielsen battled Sacred Heart's senior Matyas Vencl in the round of 64 of Friday's Open singles competition.
 
Krefting and Kröll continued their strong Fall slate, earning their team-leading sixth win of the season as a double pairing in the opening round of the competition Friday afternoon. The double combination teamed up to defeat Merrimack's senior Charles Robertson and junior Kabir Chhabria, 8-5, before falling on Saturday, 8-2, to senior Adit Sinha and senior Nathan Mao of Cornell.
 
After having a bye in the round of 64, Borch-Nielsen and Arredondo earned the program's first-ever victory over an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) opponent in Boston College's pairing of senior Aidan Pack and senior Jake Vassel on Saturday, 8-7. The Skyhawks' No. 1 doubles pairing eventually fell, 8-5, in the round of 16 on Sunday to senior Alex Finkelstein and junior Alexander Bravo of Brown University.
 
Up Next
Stonehill (2-0, 0-0 NEC) opens its Northeast Conference slate on Saturday, October 26 against Wagner College at 2 PM on campus at the Charles Watt Tennis Courts.
           
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