Men's Tennis to Host Butler fo Senior Day

Friday, April 8

Cincinnati, Ohio

1:30 PM

Xavier University

Butler

04.07.22 | Men's Tennis

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Musketeers face Bulldogs at 1:30 p.m. on Friday

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier men's tennis will host its final home match of the season, facing the Butler Bulldogs on Friday, April 8 at 1:30 p.m.

Following the match with Butler, the Musketeers (10-6), will close out the regular season with a pair of BIG EAST road matches at Marquette and DePaul on April 15-16.

BUTLER

Butler enters the match at 10-9 overall and 2-1 against BIG EAST teams. The Bulldogs have won six of their last seven.
The Bulldogs went 8-8 overall last season with a 2-1 record in BIG EAST play.
Butler topped Creighton, 4-1, in the BIG EAST Quarterfinals before falling to DePaul, 5-0, in the semis.
Xavier fell 7-0 to the Bulldogs in Indianapolis last season.

LAST TIME OUT

Xavier fell 6-1 to Belmont on Friday evening to move to move to 10-6 on the season.
In doubles action, Belmont picked up wins on all three courts, taking the No. 1 court against Ryan Cahill and Diego Nava, 6-4, and picking up 6-3 wins on the No. 2 court against Cambell Nakayama and Brett Winters, and on the No. 3 court against Shashank Reddy and Charlie Temming.
Diego Nava took a three-set win on the No. 1 singles court, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 10-4 to pick up the point for the Musketeers, his 11th single win of the season.
Belmont took two set wins on the remaining five courts. The Bruins picked up a 6-2, 6-3 win on the No. 2 court against Brett Winters. Ryan Cahill fell 6-1, 6-4 on the No. 3 court against. On No. 4, Charlie Temming fell 6-4, 7-5. Marco Pennelli fell 6-3, 6-2 on the No. 5 court and Caden Kammerer fell 6-1, 6-1 on No. 6.

THE MUSKETEERS

The Musketeers returned eight letter-winners from last season, including Brett Winters, who competed primarily in Xavier's No. 1 singles spot, as well as regular singles players Cambell Nakayama, Shashank Reddy and Aaron Thompson. Dominic Macaluso, Pascal Mosberger and Jake Zipoli also return for Xavier.
Xavier added five newcomers, including a three-person freshman class, Ryan Cahill, Marco Pennelli and Charlie Temming.
The Musketeers newcomers also included a pair of transfers, Nick Loudermilk from College of Charleston and Diego Nava from Loyola Marymount.