Posted: Apr 25, 2012
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BEVERLY, Mass. - The Endicott men's tennis team honored senior Porter Williams (Raleigh, N.C.) in their final home match of the regular season on Wednesday afternooon but lost to Nichols 6-3. The Gulls will move on to the CCC Tournament as the \#4 seed and will host \#5 Western New England on Saturday at 1:00 pm in quarterfinal play.
Endicott got a win at \#1 doubles thanks to juniors Olivier Joggi (Stoneham, Mass.) and Jake Cohen (Barrington, R.I.) who scored a 8-5 win over their Bison opponents.
Nichols took the final two doubles match ups 8-4 and 8-2 to go up 2-1 heading into singles play.
The Blue and Green was able to muster up victories at \#4 and \#6 singles but Nichols, the top seed in the upcoming playoffs, took four out of six singles flights to solidify their win. Cohen won 6-4, 6-3 in \#4 singles and freshman Tim Forance (Natick, Mass.) edged out a \#6 singles win 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Endicott ended their regular season 9-10 (5-3 CCC).
