Colby Burke Wins Flight C Singles at Mount St. Mary's Invitational

Sunday, September 15

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Mount St. Mary's Invitational

Colby Burke Wins Flight C Singles at Mount St. Mary's Invitational

9/15/2013 6:02:00 PM | Men's Tennis

By: TBD

EMMITSBURG, Md. - Colby Burke defeated his own Bucknell teammate Irwin Reibeisen in the Flight C finals at the Mount St. Mary's Invitational Sunday to claim the title as the Bison closed out competition at the three-day event. Scott Bernstein won the consolation bracket at Flight A. Bucknell had a total of four singles players and one doubles team in action in either the championship or consolation finals.

Burke took a close match against Reibeisen in the Flight C finals, winning 7-5, 6-4. Both Bison breezed through to the finals as the closest set either had in their first two matches was 6-3.

Jonathan DeFrancesch had a chance to give Bucknell two bracket winners as he was in the finals of Flight B on Sunday. He took the first set 6-0 against Greg Olesnycky of Loyola (Md.), but dropped the second 6-4 and lost the third-set tiebreaker 10-5.

Bernstein's consolation finals victory was a hard-earned one over Daniel Nino of Coppin State. Bernstein posted a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory to claim fifth in the bracket.

Bernstein and DeFrancesch teamed up in the consolation finals of Flight A doubles, but dropped an 8-6 decision to Austin Blake and Justin Olexa of host Mount St. Mary's.

The Bison also had competitors at this weekend's Princeton Invitational, but did not have anyone advance to Sunday's finals matches.

Bucknell will be in action next weekend at the USTA Tournament in Flushing, N.Y. The event runs Friday, Sept. 20 to Sunday, Sept. 22.