Saturday, March 30
Hamden, CT
12:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
University of Connecticut
Men's Tennis Readies for Two More Non-Conference Matches This Weekend
3/29/2019 12:59:00 PM | Men's Tennis
Quinnipiac vs. UConn
Saturday, March 30 | 12:00 PM
Outdoor Tennis Facility | Hamden, CT
Quinnipiac at Harvard
Sunday, March 31 | 4:00 PM
Beren Tennis Center Cambridge, MA
HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac men's tennis readies for two more non-conference matches this weekend, hosting UConn on Saturday before traveling to Harvard on Sunday.
The Bobcats match vs. UConn will be the program's first event of the season at the Outdoor Tennis Facility in Hamden.
LAST TIME OUT: at UC IRVINE
Saturday, March 30 | 12:00 PM
Outdoor Tennis Facility | Hamden, CT
Quinnipiac at Harvard
Sunday, March 31 | 4:00 PM
Beren Tennis Center Cambridge, MA
HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac men's tennis readies for two more non-conference matches this weekend, hosting UConn on Saturday before traveling to Harvard on Sunday.
The Bobcats match vs. UConn will be the program's first event of the season at the Outdoor Tennis Facility in Hamden.
LAST TIME OUT: at UC IRVINE
- Quinnipiac men's tennis dropped their final match of the California trip on March. 15, falling 4-3 vs. UC Riverside in non-conference play.
- Alester Magalit, Hielke Moore and Bryan Schick all earned a singles win for the Bobcats. Patrick Cachapero and Hielke Moore also teamed up to earn a No. 2 doubles win (6-3).
- Hielke Moore has now won four doubles matches for the Bobcats over the past week on the trip to California, while Patrick Cachapero earned two victories.
- Alester Magalit earned a team-high four singles wins on the West Coast, while Bryan Schick won three singles matches.
- Heading in to the California trip, Quinnipiac men's tennis had won three of its last four matches. The Bobcats won all three on the road, including the program's first-ever win over Army in West Point on Feb. 23.
- The Bobcats are 2-0 so far this year in the MAAC, sweeping both Rider and Niagara by the final score of 7-0.
- Chris Pappas enters his fifth season as the head coach of the Quinnipiac men's tennis team in 2018-19, after three impressive seasons at the helm of the program. Pappas is a two-time MAAC Coach of the Year selection, and helped guide the Bobcats to a 17-4 record in league play during his first three seasons.
- In 2016-17, Pappas and the Bobcats won a program-record 16 contests. During that season, the Bobcats also claimed a share of their first MAAC Regular Season Championship in program history, and first overall regular season championship since the 2005-06 season when the Bobcats were in the NEC.
- The Bobcats were tabbed second in the 2019 MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the conference office on Thursday, Jan. 17.
- The Bobcats, who received one first place vote in the poll, earned 42 total points. Quinnipiac finished just behind Monmouth, who earned 48 total points in the poll. Marist finished third, Fairfield fourth and Siena fifth in the preseason vote.
- Patrick Cachapero (Loma Linda, CA) returns for his junior season with the Bobcats after earning All-MAAC Second Team honors in No. 1 doubles in 2017-18. Cachapero, also a MAAC All-Academic Team selection, went 5-2 in singles and 4-1 in doubles during MAAC play last year.
- Hielke Moore (Fredericton, New Brunswick) was an All-MAAC Second Team selection for No. 6 singles as a freshman in 2017-18. He went 5-2 in singles, and 4-1 in doubles during MAAC action.
- Axel Stern (Tustin, CA) earned All-MAAC Second Team status as a sophomore in 2017-18. Stern, also an All-Academic honoree, went 6-1 in both singles and doubles during MAAC action. His 17 overall singles wins were the second-most on the team.
- Austin Yannone (Severna Park, MD) went 2-2 in singles and 4-2 in doubles during conference play last year. He was also named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
- Freddie Zaretsky (Fair Lawn, NJ) went 5-8 in singles and 9-7 in doubles last year as a junior. He went 2-0 during doubles action in MAAC play.
- Quinnipiac has added four newcomers to its 2018-19 roster. Jack Alexander, Alester Magalit, Aleksa Martinovic and Bryan Schick will all join the Bobcats as freshman this season.
- The Bobcats return to action on Thursday, traveling to Wagner for a 3:00 p.m. contest.
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