Trio of Owls make ITA quarterfinals

9/28/2025 8:40:00 PM

Box Score KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Competing in the annual Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region Championships, Kenyon College saw three members of its men's team work through a singles bracket of 128 players to reach the quarterfinal round. That group included senior Paulo Pocasangre Kreling, junior Alejandro Gonzalez, and first-year Maximo Llamas Castellanos.

Of those three, Gonzalez played his way into the semifinal before bowing out of the tournament with a 3-1 record. After receiving a bye through the first round of play, Gonzalez got the three-day tournament started with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Cooper Nugent of Hope College. In the second round, he posted a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Cameron Crosby of Kalamazoo College, which hosted the championships.

Those two wins got Gonzalez into the quarterfinal round, where he defeated Nicholas Meyers of Denison University by stretched-out scores of 7-5, 7-5. In Sunday's semifinal round, Gonzalez fell to Denison's Ethan Green, the No. 6 ranked singles player in NCAA Division III. Green got by Gonzalez, 6-3, 7-6.

While Gonzalez got into the semifinal, Pocasangre Kreling and Llamas Castellanos were stopped in the quarters, both finishing with 2-1 records. Both got byes in the first round. Llamas Castellanos cruised through his two wins, dropping only five games while facing opponents from Augustana College and Allegheny College. Pocasangre Kreling whipped through a 6-2, 6-0 win in the second round against an opponent from Calvin College, but ran into a third-round test, before pulling out a 6-7, 6-2, 6-3 win over Albert Mackey from University of Chicago.

In the quarterfinal round, Llamas Castellanos was stopped by Denison's Andreas Chapides, while Pocasangre Kreling went three more sets before falling to Colin Scruggs from Washington University in St. Louis.

Also competing for Kenyon in the singles tournament were Jay Dixit, Juozas Cioladis, and Stylianos Papamichael. All three of those Owls won their first match and dropped their second match.

In doubles play, all three Kenyon duos got byes in the first round and went on to win their second-round matches. In the third round, Pocasangre Kreling and Gonzalez were eliminated by counterparts from Washington, while Dixit and Papamichael were ousted by a duo from Case Western Reserve University.

Going one step farther, Kenyon's pairing of Cioladis and Llamas Castellanos knocked off Chapides and Meyers of Denison, 8-4, to claim a spot in the quarterfinal round. Once there, though, they fell to Shrikeshav Murugesan and Christian Liew from Chicago.

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