Carthage's Sammy Ramoni Falls at ITA Tournament Semifinals

Sammy Ramoni Advances to ITA SemifinalsThe Carthage College men’s tennis team (0-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened its 2009-10 season by playing in the Friday-Sunday, Oct. 2-4 Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Midwest Regional Tournament at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.

In first-round singles on Oct. 2, Sammy Ramoni (Sr., Honiara, Guadalcanal/New Mexico Military Institute defeated Bethel University’s Joel Cassens, 6-4, 6-4; J.T. Delk (Sr., Wheaton, Ill./North) defeated Hamline University’s Kyle Helgemoe, 6-3, 6-3; Matt Whiteside (So., Sacramento, Calif./Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep) defeated Pawel Czczepkowski from St. Mary’s University (Minn.), 6-1, 6-1; Andy Schwenke (Jr., Mukwonago, Wis.) defeated Lawrence University’s Jason Dunn, 3-6, 6-1, 10-8; Jeffery Lotz Jr. (Fr., Racine, Wis./Horlick) defeated Hamline’s Andrew Lutz, 6-0, 6-2; Nick Lehnert from Augustana College (Ill.) defeated Carthage’s Nick Boomgarden (So., Fitchburg, Wis./Verona Area), 6-2, 6-2; St. Olaf College’s Knute Gundersen defeated Chris Vargo, 2-6, 6-3, 10-7; and Coe College’s Scott Stegemann defeated Alex McLean (So., Belleville, Ill./West), 4-6, 6-1, 10-3.

In second-round singles, also on Oct. 2, Ramoni defeated Grinnell College’s Dmitry Glumox, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0; Lotz defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Kyle Halweg, 6-2, 6-4; Tyler Johnson from Gustavus Adolphus eliminated Delk, 6-0, 6-2; Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Chris Kuna eliminated Whiteside, 6-1, 6-0; and Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Kevin Fawcett eliminated Schwenke, 6-3, 6-2. 

In third-round singles on Oct. 2, Ramoni defeated Mike Lunka from St. Mary’s (Minn.), 6-1, 6-1; but Amrik Donkena from Gustavus Adolphus eliminated Lotz, 7-5, 6-1.  In the fourth round on Saturday, Oct. 3, Ramoni defeated Matt Edin from Concordia University (Minn.), 6-0, 2-6, 6-4.  In the Oct. 3 quarterfinals, Ramoni defeated Dubuque University’s Nick Garcia, 6-2, 6-3.  Ramoni advanced to a Sunday, Oct. 4 semifinal match against Kenyon College’s Mike Greenberg, with Greenberg winning, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2.

In first-round doubles, Sammy Ramoni and Jeffery Lotz defeated Brendan Anderson and Tucker Combs from the College of St. Scholastica, 8-2; J.T. Delk and Matt Whiteside defeated Macalester College’s Paul Mairet and Titus Levy, 8-5; Alex McLean and Nick Boomgarden lost to Daniel Pomeranc and Peter Wright from Gustavus Adolphus, 8-4; and Andy Schwenke and Chris Vargo lost to Grinnell’s Ishan Bhadkamar and Martin Dluhos, 8-4.

In second-round doubles, Ramoni and Lotz defeated Brendon O’Connell and Kevin Walker from the University of St. Thomas (Minn.), 9-7, while Delk and Whiteside lost to Wisconsin Eau-Claire’s Chris Kuna and Phil Loprinzi, 8-1.

In third-round doubles, Ramoni and Lotz defeated Patrick Clark and Nikko Karnopp from Gustavus Adolphus, 8-4.  The Carthage duo was finally eliminated in the quarterfinals, 8-1, by Mike Greenberg and Will Vandenberg from Kenyon.