The Hope Faculty males’s tennis staff made a valiant run on unseating Kalamazoo Faculty as MIAA champion on Saturday earlier than falling 6-3.

The Flying Dutchmen received two of the three matches that went to a few units and have been determined by tiebreakers.

Hope accomplished league play with a 5-1 file. Kalamazoo improved to 4-0 in MIAA matches and might clinch the No. 1 seed for the league event with a win at both Trine College or Calvin College subsequent week.

In doubles, Hope’s No. 3 pairing of junior Justin Fay (Naperville, Illinois / St. Francis HS) and junior John Voss (Cincinnati, Ohio / St. Xavier) earned a degree towards Kalamazoo with an 8-7 (6) victory towards Parker Forster and Louis Landreau.

The No. 2 doubles match additionally went three units. Kalamazoo’s Casey Johnson and Adnan Alousi edged Hope seniors Tyler Stafford (Grand Rapids, Michigan / Grand Rapids Christian) and senior Matt Henkel (Traverse Metropolis, Michigan / T.C. Central), 8-7 (2). 

Hope received matches at No. 4 singles and No. 6 singles.

Henkel outlasted Johnson at No. 4 singles, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8.

Sophomore Austin Becksvoort (Holland, Michigan / Holland Christian) topped Foster, 6-2, 6-0.

Hope (7-9 total) returns to motion on Tuesday, April 18, at 4 p.m. with an exhibition match at house towards Olivet Faculty.

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