KENOSHA, Wis. – The Carthage College men's tennis team rebounded from a 5-4 defeat to the Vikings of Augustana College to open Saturday with a dominant performance in the second match of the day against the Milwaukee School of Engineering, 8-1.
 
The split moves the Red Men to 10-12 in dual matches this season and drops Carthage to 3-3 in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.  Augustana moves to 12-9 on the year and 5-1 in the CCIW, while MSOE falls to 7-16.
 
Augustana 5, Carthage College 4
Carthage opened the day with a pair of doubles wins by the number one and two doubles teams to give the Red Men a 2-1 lead early.  The nationally ranked duo of Herman Abban and Pawel Jaworski won [8-4] and the number-two squad, Chris Conley and Matt Curry, won [8-6]. 
 
Unfortunately for Carthage, the Red Men were only able to get wins out of Abban and Conley in the one and three singles matches respectively, allowing the Vikings to squeak out the 5-4 victory.
 
Doubles competition
1. #12 Abban, Herman/Jaworski, Pawel (CARTHAGE) def. Totten, Samuel/Pohl, Eric (AUGIE) 8-4
2. Conley, Chris/Curry, Matt (CARTHAGE) def. Woolf, Connor/Elsey, Jonathon (AUGIE) 8-6
3. Morkin, Jack/Prabhakar, Nicholas (AUGIE) def. Jaworski, Lukasz/Leipold, Fordy (CARTHAGE) 9-7
 
Singles competition
1. #26 Abban, Herman (CARTHAGE) def. Totten, Samuel (AUGIE) 6-3, 6-0
2. Pohl, Eric (AUGIE) def. Jaworski, Pawel (CARTHAGE) 6-2, 6-4
3. Conley, Chris (CARTHAGE) def. Morkin, Jack (AUGIE) 6-2, 6-2
4. Woolf, Connor (AUGIE) def. Jaworski, Lukasz (CARTHAGE) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
5. Elsey, Jonathon (AUGIE) def. Irazoque, Oscar (CARTHAGE) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
6. Daluga, Scott (AUGIE) def. Leipold, Fordy (CARTHAGE) 6-3, 6-1
 
Carthage College 8, MSOE 1
The Red Men dominated the Engineers in the later match, as Carthage opened with a sweep of doubles by Abban and P. Jaworski, Conley and Curry, and finally Lukasz Jaworski and Fordy Leipold.
 
Carthage then put the match away, while giving Abban a match off, with five wins in the singles competition.  Pawel Jaworski filled in for Abban, winning the one-singles match followed by Conley in the twos, L. Jaworski in the threes, Oscar Irazoque in the fours and Leipold in the fives.
 
Doubles competition
1. Abban, Herman/Jaworski, Pawel (CARTHAGE) def. Smith, Tom/Nelson, Luke (MSOE) 8-2
2. Conley, Chris/Curry, Matt (CARTHAGE) def. Campbell, Austin/Haanen, Tyler (MSOE) 8-5
3. Jaworski, Lukasz/Leipold, Fordy (CARTHAGE) def. Phoenix, Brad/Sauder, Mason (MSOE) 8-3
 
Singles competition
1. Jaworski, Pawel (CARTHAGE) def. Price, John (MSOE) 6-7 (4-7), 6-1, 1-0 (10-5)
2. Conley, Chris (CARTHAGE) def. Smith, Tom (MSOE) 6-1, 6-2
3. Jaworski, Lukasz (CARTHAGE) def. Campbell, Austin (MSOE) 6-1, 6-0
4. Irazoque, Oscar (CARTHAGE) def. Nelson, Luke (MSOE) 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-8)
5. Leipold, Fordy (CARTHAGE) def. Haanen, Tyler (MSOE) 6-1, 6-4
6. Runke, Ryan (MSOE) def. Stassen, Brandon (CARTHAGE) 6-0, 0-6, 1-0 (10-4)
 
The Red Men will closeout their regular season slate on Thursday, April 27th with a home match against North Central College before turning their focus to the CCIW Championship, which is slated for May 4th, 5th and 6th in Rock Island, Illinois.