TRUMBULL, Conn. – Fairfield men's tennis took down UConn today by a score of 6-1 to tally their first win of the spring season.
 
The Stags started the day with two wins in Doubles competition to win the Doubles point. At #1 Doubles, Kaya Gore and Jonathan Olive-Blanco defeated Christian Provenzano and John Michael Holtmann by a score of 6-0. Lewis Edwards and Tyler Shibles then won at #2 Doubles over Rami Scheetz and Yili Zheng 6-3.
 
In Singles competition, Tyler Shibles started off the day with a win over John Michael Holtmann (6-3, 6-3). Jonathan Olive-Blanco then defeated Christian Provenzano at #4 Singles (6-4, 6-0). Lewis Edwards secured the win for the Stags with his victory over Yili Zheng at #3 Singles (6-1, 7-6 (7-5)). Griffin Schlesinger followed with a win at #6 Singles over Evan Powell (6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (7-5)). Kaya Gore took home the final win of the day at #1 Singles over Rami Scheetz (7-5, 5-7, 1-0 (8-6)).
 
"We focused a lot on Doubles this week to try to clean up some of the mistakes we made last weekend and it paid off" said Head Coach Jeff Bricker. "We came out with a ton of energy and set the tone for the match. We handled the big points very well the entire match. We still have more to work on, but I'm pleased with our performance today and I am looking forward to heading up to play a very good Colgate team next weekend."
 
Fairfield will return to action on Sunday, February 16 as they travel to Syracuse, N.Y. to take on Colgate at noon.