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ORLANDO, Flo.- The Montana State University Billings men's tennis team earned a split on their final day of competition.  The Yellowjackets beat St. Cloud State University 5-4, but were then defeated by Palm Beach Atlantic University 1-8 to end the trip.

MSUB 5 vs. SCSU 4

MSU-Billings came out of doubles play with a 2-1 advantage as the number one team of Christian Fischer and Josh Hedderig won their match 8-3 along with the number three team of Kavindu Gamage and Austin Kische won 9-8 (7-5 in the tie breaker).  The number two team, Brandon Beardsley and Eric De Romas fell to SCSU 5-8.

Only needing three victories in singles to clinch the match, Hedderig (playing at number three) clinched the fifth point with a 6-2, 1-6 6-1 victory over Joga Oris of SCSU after Fischer (playing at number one) beat Joga Poli in stright sets 6-2, 6-3 and Gamage (playing at number five) defeated Daniel Becker 6-2, 6-3. 

Playing at number two singles, Beardsley lost to Viktor Kasak 4-6, 5-7 and DeRomas (playing at number four) was forced to retire after winning a tightly contested first set 7-6 (7-2 on the tie breaker) and was down 1-5 in the second.  His retire came after the match was clinched for MSUB.  Austin Kische fell to Nate Cherry in straight sets 2-6, 2-6 at number six singles.

'It was a great defining match for our men's team," head coach Lew Kosich said.  "It was a nice solid match against a team the typically makes in to the NCAA post season.  We had good efforts up and down the line, it was a tough well fought match." 



Singles competition
1. Christian Fischer (MSUBM) def. Joao Poli (SCSUM) 6-2, 6-3
2.. Victor Kasak (SCSUM) def. Brandon Beardsley (MSUBM) 6-4, 7-5
3. Josh Hedderig (MSUBM) def. Joao Orsi (SCSUM) 6-2, 1-6, 6-1
4. Joao Vitor Souto (SCSUM) def. Eric De Romas (MSUBM) 6-7, 7-5, 1-0
5. Kavindu Gamage (MSUBM) def. Daniel Becker (SCSUM) 6-2, 6-3
6. Nathanial Cherry (SCSUM) def. Austin Kische (MSUBM) 6-3, 6-3

Doubles competition
1. Christian Fischer/Josh Hedderig (MSUBM) def. Joao Poli/Victor Kasak (SCSUM) 8-3
2. Joao Orsi/Joao Vitor Souto (SCSUM) def. Eric De Romas/Brandon Beardsley (MSUBM) 8-5
3. Kavindu Gamage/Austin Kische (MSUBM) def. Nathanial Cherry/Christopher Mavetz (SCSUM) 9-8



MSUB 1 vs. PBAU 8

The Yellowjackets ran into a tough div. II opponent in the sailfish of Palm Beach Atlantic.  The sail fish cruised through doubles play, sweeping positions one through three.  Fischer and Hedderig lost 5-8, Beardsley and DeRomas fought hard and lost 7-9 while Gamage and Daniil Gorkov fell 4-8.

Gamage earned the lone Yellowjacket point playing number five singles and winning in straight sets over Nicholas Battistini 6-1, 6-3. 

The Yellowjackets leave Florida with 2-4 record overall on the year and will open up conference play at home in Billings on April fourth and fifth. 


Singles competition
1. Uryson (PBAM) def. Christian Fischer (MSUB) 6-3, 6-4
2. Nowaczyk (PBAM) def.  Brandon Beardsley (MSUB) 6-0, 6-4
3. Heimberger (PBAM) def. Josh Hedderig (MSUB) 6-2, 6-1
4. Adams (PBAM) def. Eric De Romas (MSUB) 6-3, 6-4
5. Kavindu Gamage (MSUB) def. Battistini (PBAM) 6-1, 6-4
6. (PBAM) def. Austin Kische (MSUB) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles competition
1. Nicolas Uryson/Mark Heimberger (PBAM) def. Fischer/Hedderig (MSUB) 8-5
2. Romain Nowaczyk/Nicholas Battistini (PBAM) def. Beardsley/DeRomas (MSUB) 9-7
3. Asti Adams/Matt Leeds (PBAM) def. Gorkov/Gamage (MSUB) 8-4