Velasco’s Fourth Match-Clinching Victory Helps Lakers Tennis Fend Off Huskies

by Sports Team

HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Lake Superior State University men’s tennis program (6-3, 1-0 GLIAC) earned a 4-3 victory over the Michigan Tech Huskies (0-9, 0-1 GLIAC) to open conference play on Sunday.

The Lakers got off to a hot start in doubles play as Xavier Vicent Navarro  and Lluc Limongi Ollers  raced out to a 6-2 victory at the No. 3 doubles spot to give their team an early advantage. The duo of Aaron Osmond (Cheltenham, U.K.) and Maxence Hamon  would then come away with a strong 6-4 win at the top doubles position to secure the doubles point, and Jordi Fraile Raton and Raul Velasco Garcia completed the sweep of doubles play with a 6-4 win of their own.

Osmond would open singles play with a straight-set victory in the top singles match by a score of 6-3, 7-6, but the Huskies would respond climbing back into the match with a win at the No. 3 spot, and coming back to take the No. 2 singles match despite a strong effort from Ollers. Fraile would then put the Lakers back in front with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory in the No. 4 singles match, but Michigan Tech claimed another three-set win at the No. 5 singles position to knot up the overall score at 3-3, turning all attention toward Velasco, a position that he has found himself in time and time again. The Huskies were able to take the opening set by a score of 6-4 in the No. 6 singles match, but Velasco answered right back, taking the second set with a 6-4 score of his own. Both players would then battle back and forth throughout the third set, forcing a tiebreaker to decide the winner, but in the end, Velasco would ultimately come out on top, once again proving to be strong in clutch moments with his fourth match-clinching victory of the season.

The Lakers will be looking for their third-consecutive victory on Friday, March 24 when they take on the Purdue Northwest Pride with the first serve scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

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