Box Score Walla Walla, Wash. – Sophomore
Kaden Sigurdsson and senior
Noah Sutin won Lewis & Clark College men's tennis' first doubles title at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional on Monday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The fourth-seeded River Otters pair rallied past third-seeded Hassan Ammar and Niklas Nordahl Jensen of Whitman College in the final. After losing the first set 7-5, Sigurdsson and Sutin won the second 7-6 (8-6) and took the deciding 10-point tiebreak 10-8. The title earned Sigurdsson and Sutin ITA All-America honors and a berth in the ITA Cup in Rome, Georgia, in October.
Doubles Recap
Sigurdsson and Sutin opened with an 8-7 (1) win over a Linfield University pair in the round of 32. They defeated a George Fox University twosome 8-5 in the round of 16 and sixth-seeded Hanri Luo and Henry Kaufman of Whitman 8-2 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, they beat Whitworth University's Matthew Froslan and Ryan Ashley 8-1.
Juniors
Arnav Bishnoi and
Bridger Galyardt lost 8-5 to a George Fox pair in the opening round and also fell to a Whitworth duo in the consolation bracket.
First-year
Quinn Douangpanya and sophomore Aslan Gemuhluoglu lost their opener 8-6 to a Pacific University pair. They beat a University of Puget Sound duo 8-5 in the consolation bracket before falling 8-2 to a Linfield team in the consolation round of 16.
Singles Recap
Third-seeded Sigurdsson became the first Lewis & Clark player to reach the singles semifinals since Michael Brewer in 2016. He beat Willamette University's Jake Bronson 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-5) in the round of 32 and 15th-seeded Joey Henderson of Linfield 6-0, 6-1 in the round of 16. Sigurdsson then defeated eighth-seeded Alexander Kinoshita of Pacific 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. He lost 6-3, 6-0 to second-seeded Zach Moore of George Fox in the semifinals.
Sutin, the No. 11 seed, beat Pacific's Kekua Chong 6-3, 7-5 in the round of 32 and fifth-seeded Brooks Learflad of Linfield 6-4, 6-3 in the round of 16. He fell to fourth-seeded Jason Rowe of Puget Sound in the quarterfinals.
Galyardt and Bishnoi also competed in the A singles bracket. Galyardt lost 6-3, 6-0 to Moore in the round of 32, then advanced by walkover against Pacific's Jonathan Nguyen in the consolation bracket. Whitman's Cooper Wyngarden beat him 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) in the consolation quarterfinals.
Bishnoi lost 6-1, 3-6, 1-0 (10-4) to Willamette's Sohnosuke Sakaguchi in the round of 64. He followed with a 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (12-10) consolation win over Whitman's Drew Harris before withdrawing from the consolation quarterfinals because of an injury.
In the B singles bracket, Douangpanya made his collegiate debut with a 0-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-8) win over Puget Sound's Sebastian Silverstein. He lost 6-0, 6-4 to Whitman's Landon LaBrie in the round of 16.
Gemuhluoglu lost his opener 7-5, 6-2 to Puget Sound's Marcello Sachelari, then beat Linfield's Brandon Tran and Willamette's Jimmy Lee by identical 6-0, 6-0 scores in the consolation bracket.
First-year
Ethan Anand lost both singles matches in his collegiate debut, falling 6-1, 6-1 to Willamette's Isaac Anderson and 6-0, 6-2 to Whitman's Braeden Butler.
BY THE NUMBERS
1 – First ITA regional men's doubles title in program history.
2 – Consecutive appearances for Sutin in an ITA regional championship match.
10 – Combined singles and doubles wins for Sigurdsson and Sutin at this year's ITA Northwest Regional.
WHO'S NEXT
Sigurdsson and Sutin will join women's tennis first-year Sonya Drayton in representing the River Otters at the ITA Cup from Oct. 16-18 in Rome, Georgia.
