SPARTANBURG, SC—The Winthrop men's tennis team took the court today and came out victorious, claiming their first win of the season, 4-3 over the Wofford Terriers. 

Winthrop jumped out to an early lead by seizing the doubles point.  Doubles play began with Winthrop's No. 1 pairing of Dylan Comerford and Peter Nagovnak downing Wofford's Rob Galloway and Haris Poric 6-3.  At No. 2 doubles the Eagles' Tremayne Mitchell and Steven Patrick topped the Terriers' Walker Heffron and Parks Thompson 6-2.  Doubles play wrapped up at the No. 3 position with Ruben Franzanti and Michael Chen of Winthrop losing 6-4 to David Sklar and Trevor Gotkowski from Wofford.

Singles play opened up with the No. 1 matchup of Comerford losing to Galloway of Wofford 6-1, 6-1.  The Eagles' No. 2 Mitchell lost 6-4, 6-4 to Poric.  At No. 3 singles, Nagovnak was defeated by Heffron in a hard fought match 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.  Winthrop's Patrick bested Gotkowski in straight sets 7-5, 6-2 at the No. 4 position.  No. 5 singles saw Franzanti battle back after dropping the first set and holding off Thompson in an impressive victory 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.  The Eagles' Michael Chen, at the No 6 position, finished singles play with a strong performance in a win over the Terriers' Parks Schoen 6-0, 6-4.

"It was a very tough and hard-fought match against Wofford today," said Winthrop's Coach Sergey Belov.  "We had to really dig down deep in order to come up with the win.  Dylan and Peter turned their doubles match around by coming back from 3:0 deficit which gave the first point of the match.  Also, Ruben had to come back from 4:1 deficit in the third set in order to give us a win in today's match.  It was a great team win and we're looking forward to the next match."

The Winthrop Eagles evened their record at 1-1 with the victory, and will be in action again Friday, Feb. 6, at home against USC-Upstate.