the Informer

The Hartford Hawks men’s team took on Marist tennis Monday and came home with a 7-0 loss.

The Hawks fell as Marist swept Hartford right out of the building with a convincing win. This was the men’s team’s second-to-last home match, and their final before their home finale with Boston University coming in on Saturday, and the America East Tournament starting next Friday.

From the start of the men’s match on Monday you could tell that it was not going to be Hartford’s day, as Marist was outperforming and outplaying them. The match of the day was the third doubles match featuring Aaron Kooden and Edgardo Ureta, who took their match to 7-6 (7-3), but could not pull off the victory.

Kooden also had a strong performance at sixth singles, losing the first set 6-0, but coming back strong and stealing the second, dropping that one 6-4. Hartford’s top singles players also fought hard, with first singles Aneil Bhalla playing opponent Christian Cooley, but falling, 6-2, 6-4. Second singles Josh Isaacson fell much in the same fashion, 6-4, 6-2 to Nicolas Pisecky.

Their final match against BU on Saturday will start at 11 a.m.