Box Score vs. Youngstown State
Box Score vs. Toledo


With the match tied at three points each, freshman Dustin Goldenberg (Bloomfield Hills, MI/West Bloomfield) held serve and broke Tariq Ismail to take the third set giving the Detroit Titans men's tennis team a 4-3 victory over visiting Youngstown State for its first win of the season. The Titans started the weekend with a 5-2 setback at Toledo on Saturday.

“It's great to get our first win in the new era of Detroit Titan Tennis,” said coach Grant Asher. “To come down to the last match with Dustin coming through was very exciting. We have a pretty young team who are very passionate about winning and getting better. We have to get back to practice and work on the things that we didn't do well today, and these student-athletes are excited about doing that. I feel we have some bigger wins ahead of us.”

Detroit (1-3, 1-0 HL) took an early 1-0 lead sweeping the doubles competition as the No. 1 team of junior Pjotrs Necajevs (Riga, Latvia/Herdera Vidusskola) and Goldenberg took out Steve D'Angelo and Robert Emig, 8-3. Junior Patrick Troy (Beverly Hills, MI/Brother Rice) and freshman Nick Tolomei (Rochester, MI/Adams) took out Patrick Hamning and Christopher Leson, 8-3, at No. 3, while freshmen David Stabley (Utica, MI/Eisenhower) and Gino McCathney (Livonia, MI/Stevenson) held off Ismail and Michael Kathary, 8-7(5), at the No. 2 position.

In singles action, Troy dispatched Hamning in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1, at the No. 3 slot to give the Titans a 2-0 lead. YSU then go on the board as Leason defeated McCathney, 6-1, 6-3, at the No. 6 position before Necajevs responded by taking out Kathary at No. 1, 6-3, 6-2. The Penguins then tied the match at three as Emig defeated Tolomei, 6-4, 6-2, followed by D'Angelo's 6-3, 6-2 win over Stabley at the No. 5 and No. 4 spots, respectively. The stage was then set in the decisive No. 2 match as Goldenberg rallied from a set down to defeat Ismail, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, to lock up the win for the Titans.

Against Toledo, the Titans won the doubles portion taking two of the three matches as well as one singles match. Necajevs took part in two of the three wins with a 6-0, 6-4 win at No. 1 singles against Knot Likitkumchorn. He also teamed with Goldenberg at No. 1 doubles for an 8-6 victory over Likitkumchorn and Jared Miller. UDM earned the point in doubles as the No. 3 tandem of Tolomei and Troy downed Levi Bent-Lee and Aleksandar Elezovic 9-7.

Detroit travels to Muncie, Ind. for a non-conference match against Ball State. on Sun., Feb. 8, at 1:00p.m.