Box Score DANBURY, Conn. - The Western Connecticut State University men's tennis team fell to visiting non-conference opponent Farmingdale State University, 5-2, on Monday afternoon at the Westside Athletic Complex. The match was originally scheduled to be played on Saturday but was pushed back due to inclement weather. With the loss, the Wolves dropped to 5-14 overall while the Rams improved to 12-7.  WestConn visits Salem State tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. in the Little East Conference (LEC) Championship First Round.

In doubles, all three courts were tied early on but each fell behind soon afterwards and WestConn could not recover.  Sophomores Henry Gsell (Bridgewater, Conn.) and Alex Maldonado (Danbury, Conn.) stayed in their match the longest before falling, 6-4.  In singles, Farmingdale quickly picked up two more points to make the score, 3-0, and Maldonado lost in straight sets at the No. 4 position to settle the team decision for the Rams. FSC then clinched the match winning at #4 Maldonado. 

The final three courts all went to a third-set tiebreaker. WestConn junior Jose Zambrano (Danbury, Conn.) fought back at third singles after losing the first set, taking the second, 7-5, before losing, 10-4, in the tiebreaker.  Wolves senior Aidan Burke (Wilton, Conn.) won his final regular-season match, also coming back from losing the first set. In a heated battle, he won the second set, 6-3, and the third-set breaker, 10-4. In the last match of the day, WestConn sophomore Axel Javier (Danbury, Conn.) completed his comeback with a third set breaker, 10-7, at the bottom of the ladder. 

"We treated our final regular season match as a playoff game today," said WestConn Head Coach Shawn Stillman. "It was important to keep the intensity and focus high. We came back from losing the first set on three singles courts and won two of them. If we have any success in the playoffs, we need to get that doubles point early.  Congratulations to Aidan and Will (Darby) on their senior year, we will miss them."