DELAND, Fla. — Kennesaw State men's tennis finished its fall season with 17 wins across singles and doubles play at the Mad Hatter Invitational at Mandy Stoll Tennis Center, Nov. 6-8.

"This weekend went well," said KSU assistant coach Randall Knox. "We set out to finish the fall strong with solid wins and to further develop our players, and I think we accomplished that. We're looking forward to seeing how our talented group performs in the spring."

KSU went a combined 12-5 in singles and 5-4 in doubles in the three-day, Stetson-hosted tournament that featured matches between the Owls and Hatters, as well as Xavier and Embry-Riddle.

Dominic Ducariu played line one for KSU in each of three matches, winning two. Ducariu defeated the Musketeers' Tony Sifuentes (6-4, 6-3) and Eagles' Joao Morgado (6-4, 6-3).

Ben Hudson added a line-three win for the Owls over Xavier's Max Pettingell (6-2, 6-0), while Nathan Walters won on two versus the Musketeers' Andrew Spurck (6-2, 2-6, 10-3).

Xavi Ferrer defeated Embry-Riddle's Leon Emich 6-4, 6-1 in No. 3 singles after topping Xavier's Nick Herdoiza 6-4, 6-4 on line four.

Juan Parrilla, Konstantinos Megalemos and Frederik Tandeter won on lines five through seven against the Musketeers with wins over Bode Campbell, Samuel Frizelle and Lukas Grossman, respectively. Megalemos and Tandeter added two more singles wins versus the Eagles as well. Tandeter took down Charles Leguillon 6-3, 6-2 on line five, while Megalemos overcame Michael Shalom 6-1, 6-3 on six.

Kyvan Rietkerk rounded out KSU's singles wins as he rolled to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Embry-Riddle's Adrien Holdinga on line four.

The Owls swept the Musketeers in doubles play and went 2-1 against the Eagles.

Ducariu and Juan Parrilla beat Xavier's Campbell and Sifuentes 7-5; Hudson and Rietkerk overtook Pettingell and Frizelle 7-6 (7-4), while Ferrer and Walters cleaned up with a 6-1 defeat of Spurck and Herdoiza.

Hudson and Rietkerk took another doubles match versus Embry-Riddle, this one in a 7-6 (7-2) decision versus Emich and Stefan Mos.

Ferrer and Tandeter tallied KSU's fifth doubles win of the weekend in a 6-2 victory over the Eagles' Leguillon and Pranav Kumar.

The Owls now turn their attention to preparation for the spring dual-match season. KSU's full spring schedule will be announced at a later date.

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