Box Score | Philadelphia, Pa. - (4/15/2016) – The first of two remaining dual matches to be held at the Chestnut Hill College Tennis Courts this year, the Griffins hosted fellow National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II East Regional power Queens College for a pair of afternoon matches. Both battles finished by the same 6-3 final with the Chestnut Hill College men closing out their competition before the Queens College women evened the score.
 
Queens College (13-2) swept the women's doubles matches in reverse order; 8-3, 8-5, 9-7, with senior Iman Williams-Mulesa (Pickering, Ontario) and sophomore Lara Scholtze (Bod Hamburg, Germany) giving the Knights the hardest fight in the top team flight, 3-0. Junior Laure-Anne Josso (Vannes, France) was the first to finish in singles, earning Chestnut Hill College (13-8) their first point of the match with her 6-1 win by retirement, 3-1. After the Knights won number five singles, 6-4, 6-4, Williams-Mulesa kept the Griffins in contention with her 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win at number three singles, 4-2. Unfortunately, the game-winner came next at number two singles, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, leaving a the Knights' 6-4, 6-4, win at number five singles and a 6-2, 6-2, victory at number six singles from junior Louise Charley (St. Jean de Luz, France) in vain, 6-3.
 
The Chestnut Hill College (11-5) men captured their fourth straight win and third in as many days with today's 6-3 victory over Queens College. Sophomores, Lucas Bocaletto (Itatiba, Brazil) and Pedro Festugato Regalin (Caxias do Sul, Brazil) earned the Griffins their first point of the match with their 8-4 win at number two singles, 1-0. Queens College (10-5) reciprocated with an 8-3 win at number two doubles, 1-1, but the round ended in the Griffins favor after an 8-5 number one doubles win from freshman Pierre Kohler (Les Sables d'Olonne, France) and sophomore Jonathan Ducretot (Antibes, France), 2-1. The Knights then tied the match (2-2) with their win at number one singles, 6-3, 6-2, only for the Griffins to respond with Kohler and freshman Adam Gavin (Gothenburg, Sweden) winning their respective challenges at number two, 6-3, 6-1, and number three singles, 6-0, 7-5, to regain a 4-2 advantage. A 6-2, 6-0, Knight win at number five singles reduced the Scarlet and Gold advantage to one, 4-3, but today Ducretot delivered the game-winner with his 6-4, 6-4, win at number four singles, 5-3. Senior Henry Boyle (London, England) won the remaining point at number six singles, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8.
 
The Chestnut Hill College men's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) resumes tomorrow, Saturday, April 16, with a 1:00 p.m. match at Post University. Meanwhile the women's tennis team will wait until Thursday, April 21, to join the men for a Senior Day dual match versus Millersville University.