HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The Marietta College men's tennis team did not get to participate in a Spring Break trip last year due to COVID-19.  This year, they traveled to beautiful Hilton Head to enjoy some great weather and get in some matches.  On Sunday (March 6), the men opened the spring trip with a 9-0 loss to Gettysburg College. The Pioneers fall to 1-5 on the season and the Bullets remained undefeated at 5-0.

Gettysburg handled the Pioneers in each of the three doubles matches. In the first match, Alex Kagan and Max Levy notched an 8-6 victory over Spencer Hall (Louisville, Ohio/Louisville) and Elivh Perez (Mexico City, Mexico/La Salle). Marietta's Elliot Britton (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire/John Hampden Grammar) and Tyler Wise (Marietta, Ohio/Marietta) fell at the No. 2 doubles match to Chase Burker and Dylan Weber, 8-4. Gettysburg's Bruce Weigartz and Alec Shalk were 8-1 winners at No. 3 over Marietta's David Frazier (Louisville, Ohio/Louisville) and Gavin Donnell (/).

Perez fell to Michael Zayneh at No. 1 singles by the scores of 6-2 and 6-0. Zach Lachance beat Hall, 6-4 and 6-4 at No. 2. At No. 3, Matt Rau defeated Britton, 6-1 and 6-3.

Wise lost to Hayden Strittmatter at No. 4, 6-0 and 6-0. Frazier was bested by Levy, 6-0 and 6-2 at No. 5.  Jeffrey Seybolt defeated Donnell in the final singles match of the day 6-0 and 6-0.

The Hilton Head trip continues this Wednesday (March 9) as Marietta battles Cairn University (from Langhorne, PA) at 4:00 p.m.

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