CHARLESTON, SC—The Winthrop Eagles men's tennis team dropped a 5-2 decision to the College of Charleston Cougars at the Patriots Point Tennis Center earlier today.

At the No. 1 doubles spot Winthrop's Dylan Commerford and Peter Nagovnak lost to Brice Allanic and Alon Faiman 6-3.  No. 2 positioned Steven Patrick and Tremayne Mitchell downed Charleston's Rodrigo Encinas and Zack Lewis 6-3.  Doubles play was concluded with the No. 3 duo of Josh Record and Charlie Ghriskey winning the doubles point for Charleston over Ruben Franzanti and Michael Chen 6-4.

No. 1 singles saw the Eagles' Mitchell winning in straight sets over Encinas 6-2, 6-3.  At the No. 2 position Comerford lost to Allanic after a third set super tiebreak 6-7, 6-1, 10-4.  No. 3 Patrick was bested 6-0, 6-2 by Ghriskey.  The Cougars' Vasily Kichigin topped Nagovnak 6-3, 6-4 at the No. 4 spot.  No. 5 Lewis beat Franzanti 6-4, 6-4.  The afternoon finished with Winthrop's No. 6 Chen winning his match over Faiman 6-2, 7-6(4).

Winthrop, 2-2, will be back in action when they return home for a match against Appalachian State Saturday, Feb. 14.