SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Susquehanna University men's tennis team extended their season with a win in the quarterfinals of the 2021 Landmark Conference Men's Tennis Championship Saturday afternoon. Fourth-seeded Susquehanna (7-3) knocked off fifth-seeded The Catholic University of America (3-5) with a 5-1 victory.
 
The River Hawks will now face top-seeded Drew University (8-0) on Tuesday, May 4, at 4:00 p.m. at Drew's indoor courts in Madison, N.J. During the regular season, Drew handed SU a 7-2 defeat in Susquehanna's regular-season finale. The Rangers advanced to Tuesday's semifinals with a 5-0 win over eighth-seeded Elizabethtown College on Saturday as well.
 
How It Happened
Doubles
Susquehanna opened up a 2-0 lead as the duo of sophomores John Duncan (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia) and Joshua Sanderson (Mount Wolf, Pa./Northeastern) posted an 8-0 shutout at No. 2 doubles followed by the tandem of junior Emil Vyskocil (Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y./Cornwall) and sophomore Conor Ryan (Bloomsburg, Pa./Central Columbia) notching an 8-6 triumph at No. 1 doubles.
 
Vyskocil and Ryan have now won four consecutive doubles matches and boast a 5-3 record.
 
The River Hawks went into singles action with a 2-1 lead after Catholic's Dom Mazzeo and Christian Papalambros tallied an 8-6 victory at third doubles.
 
Singles
Duncan and first-years Alex Baker (Lancaster, Pa./Lampeter-Strasburg) and Tim Basta (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown West) picked up wins at No. 4, No. 6, and No. 3 singles, respectively, to clinch the quarterfinal victory at 5-1.
 
Duncan and Baker both won in straight sets, dropping only one game between the two of them, while Basta needed three sets, 6-2, 0-6, 7-5, to dispatch Bruno To.
 
Up Next for the River Hawks
May 4 at Drew (8-0) – Landmark Conference Championship Semifinals – Madison, N.J. / Indoor Courts – 4:00 p.m.
 
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