NEW LONDON, Conn. - Saint Michael's College men's tennis players combined for six doubles victories on Saturday at day one of the two-day Connecticut College Invitational, jointly hosted by Connecticut College and the United States Coast Guard Academy.
 
LEADERS

• Senior Jackson Moser (Missouri City, Texas/Ridge Point), 3 wins
• First-year Garrett Brooker (Charleston, S.C./Oceanside Collegiate Academy), 3 wins
• Senior Tristian Du Plessis (Rustenburg, South Africa/Hoërskool Waterkloof/Wallace State CC), 2 wins
• Junior Sergio Barroso (Madrid, Spain/Colegio Montpellier), 2 wins
• First-year Jack Li (San Diego, Calif./San Marcos), 1 win
• First-year Ruben Weijer (Son, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands/Frits Philips Lyceum), 1 win

MATCH FACTS

• The Purple Knights were ninth in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region poll.
• Coast Guard is ranked 19th in the most recent Division III ITA Northeast Region rankings.
• Springfield College and Trinity College round out the five-school field.

THE ACTION

• Brooker and Moser opened the day with a 7-6 (7-4) victory against a Springfield duo before suffering their lone loss in a 6-4 contest versus a Trinity team. They rebounded for another triumph in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-5), against Coast Guard and capped a 3-1 day with a 6-4 win against the host Camels.
• In their first match as partners, Barroso and Du Plessis doubled up a Springfield tandem, 6-3, before besting a Trinity team by a 6-4 count. Against a Coast Guard pair that is ranked eighth in the Northeast and earned New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference laurels last year, Barroso and Du Plessis narrowly fell, 6-4. They finished the day with another 6-4 loss, this time against Connecticut College.
• In Weijer's college debut, he and Li lost their opener to a Springfield team, 7-6 (9-7), before suffering 6-1 and 6-2 setbacks to Trinity and Coast Guard, respectively. Both earned their first college victories in either singles or doubles with a 6-2 triumph over Connecticut College.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MATCH

• Sunday at Connecticut College Invitational, 9 a.m.