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Harry Busby won his first singles match at the NJCAA championship
Harry Busby won his first singles match at the NJCAA championship
Harry Busby won his first singles match at the NJCAA championship
Posted: May 12, 2015

All six singles advance, two doubles teams reach quarter-finals at NJCAA men's championship; team fourth

  PLANO, Texas - All of Mesa's singles players won their first round matches and the No. 3 doubles team has reached the semi-finals at the rain-delayed NJCAA Division I Men's Tennis National Championship.

  Mesa was fourth after the first two days of play with 25 points. ASA and Tyler are tied with 30 points each and ABAC has 29.

  No. 1 Harry Busby (So., England), who is seeded third, took down Erk Eldagsen, of Cowley County, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0. He will play Nicolas Rouanet, of Vincennes, Wednesday at 6:00 a.m. Arizona time. All times mentioned will be AZ time.

  Max Wightman (Fr., Scottsdale, AZ/Desert Mountain H.S.) seeded fourth and playing at No. 2, defeated Mouhamed Gueye, from Spartanburg Methodist 6-1, 6-1. He will move on to meet fifth-seeded Ciro Lampasas, of Tyler, at 6:00 Wednesday.

  In the No. 3 singles match, sixth-seeded Nick Silvestri (Fr., Scottsdale, AZ/Notre Dame Prep H.S.) knocked off Samuel Blackburn, of Mississippi Gulf Coast, 6-2, 7-5 and will move forward to face No. 1-seeded Stephan Watson, from ASA (Fla.), at 7:15 a.m. Wednesday.

  At No. 4,Vitalli Kotelianets (Fr., Ukraine), seeded fourth at No. 4, defeated Adam Ruckman, of Lewis and Clark, 6-0, 6-2 and moves on to play Zach Pitman, of Collin, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

  Andy Nguyen (So., Bien Hoa, Vietnam/Hamilton (AZ) H.S.), the No. 5 seed at No. 5 beat Gavin Grivel, of Laredo, 6-3, 6-2. He will take on third-seeded Tare Mariga, of Seward Co., Wednesday at 7:30 a.m.

  Kevin McMahon (So., Tempe, AZ/Corona del Sol H.S.) Seeded sixth at No. 6, topped Justin Horvath, from Prairie St., 6-1, 6-0. McMahon will face fourth-seeded Kenhan Dishman, of Seminole (Okla.) State, Wednesday at 7:30 a.m.

  In doubles, at No. 1 Busby and Wightman, the second seeds, defetaed Cody Collins and Nathaniel Pinkney, of Itawamba, 6-4, 6-1, and then fell to fifth-seeded Zachary Northey and Logan Powell, of Tyler, 6-3, 6-3.

  Kotelianets and Nguyen topped fourth-seeded Paul Arslanian and Tare Mariga, of Seward Co.,  6-2, 6-4. They then defeated fifth-seeded Juan Bermudez Jorge Godoy, of Cowley, 7-6 (5), 6-2 to reach the semi-finals.

  The No. 2 team of McMahon and Silvestri square off against Antonio Hernandez and Steve Waynick, of Elgin, in the consolation bracket at 1:45 p.m.