Carvalho and Owen to Represent Bucknell at Binghamton Championships

Friday, September 27

Vestal, N.Y. / Bearcats Sports Complex

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Bucknell University

Binghamton Championships

Carvalho and Owen to Represent Bucknell at Binghamton Championships

9/26/2019 12:50:00 PM | Men's Tennis

Setting the Scene
What: Binghamton Championships
When: Friday, Sept. 27 – Sunday, Sept. 29
Where: Bearcats Sports Complex, Vestal, N.Y.
Teams: Bucknell, Army, NJIT, St. Thomas Aquinas, Buffalo, Binghamton

About the Bison
• Bucknell heads to Vestal N.Y. to compete at the Binghamton Championships in the team's third weekend of fall tennis action. Freshman Michael Owen and sophomore Dave Carvalho will be the two representing the Bison at the tournament.
• Each player at the tournament will see three singles matches and play five sets of doubles.
• Last weekend, the Bison picked up eight singles wins and three doubles victories competing against Penn, Wagner, and Temple at the Temple Invite.
• Owen was impressive throughout the weekend at Temple. The freshman picked up singles wins against Penn and Wagner, and was part of a doubles victory playing alongside Ryan Jurist.
• Carvalho picked up a singles win last weekend as well, defeating his Wagner opponent 6-2, 7-5 on the second day of the tournament. Carvalho also earned a doubles victory by default.

Scouting the Opponents
• Binghamton will see its first fall competition this weekend after posting an 8-15 overall record last season. However, the Bearcats are without 2019 Mid-American All-Conference selection Ludovico Cestarollo, who graduated in the spring.
• Army has also yet to compete this fall. Army, who finished 15-14, defeated Bucknell 4-0 back in March. The Black Knights return two 2019 All-Patriot League selections in Myles Conlin and Diego Huttepain.
• NJIT begins its fall campaign this weekend following a 4-15 spring season. Eight of the 12 players on NJIT's roster are freshmen seeing their first collegiate tennis action this season.
• St. Thomas Aquinas put together a 14-6 campaign in the spring, finishing second in the East Coast Conference with a 4-1 record.
• Buffalo has won four doubles matches in two weeks of fall tournaments this season. The team went 11-9 last spring and reached the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals.