Elizabethtown College Men's Tennis
Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Greg Voshell Ties Etown Career Doubles Win Mark as Blue Jays Down Villa Julie 7-0

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- In Elizabethtown's first home match of the 2005 season, the Blue Jays defeated Villa Julie College 7-0 and senior Greg Voshell (Chester Heights, PA/Garnet Valley) tied the program's career doubles win record.

Voshell and first-year teammate Thomas Nyst (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands/Walter Bosch) eked out a 9-7 win at number one doubles at the start of the match to improve the pair's record to 4-1 this season. Voshell's career doubles mark now stands at 35-20, tying him for first place on Etown's record list with Joe Kramer '83, who ran up a 35-15 record in doubles from 1980 to 1983.

At number two doubles, senior Josh Miller (Indiana, PA/Indiana) and first-year Pepjin Dekker (The Hague, The Netherlands/VCL) combined to win 8-0.

At number one singles, Nyst won 6-0, 7-5, and fellow first-year student Yero Saponjian (Yerevan, Armenia/Oshavan) won 6-0, 6-1 at number two. Voshell scored a 6-0, 6-2 win at number three, and Miller won 6-0, 6-2 at number four.

Etown, which improves to 3-2 overall with the win, will return to action in its first Commonwealth Conference match of the season Thursday, March 17 on the road against Lebanon Valley at 3:00 p.m.

at Elizabethtown, Pa.
Elizabethtown College 7, Villa Julie College 0
Singles competition:
1. Thomas Nyst (ETOWN) def. Jason Cohen (VJC) 6-0, 7-5
2. Yero Saponjian (ETOWN) def. Douglas Ammon (VJC) 6-0, 6-1
3. Greg Voshell (ETOWN) def. Matt Kondilas (VJC) 6-0, 6-2
4. Josh Miller (ETOWN) def. John Lidinsky (VJC) 6-0, 6-2
5. Pepijn Dekker (ETOWN) def. Michael Casalena (VJC), by forfeit
6. Erik Sawchuk (ETOWN), by forfeit

Doubles competition:
1. Greg Voshell/Thomas Nyst (E) def. Jason Cohen/Douglas Ammon (V) 9-7
2. Josh Miller/Pepijn Dekker (E) def. Matt Kondilas/John Lidinsky (V) 8-0
3. Yero Saponjian/Erik Sawchuk (E), by forfeit