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Kenyon KENM (21-4 NCAC 7-1)
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Winner Denison Men's Tennis DENM (25-2 NCAC 8-0)
Kenyon KENM
(21-4 NCAC 7-1)
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Final
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Denison Men's Tennis DENM
(25-2 NCAC 8-0)
Winner
Maximo Llamas Castellanos
Angel Maldonado

Match Recap: Men's Tennis |

NCAC title bout doesn’t go way of Owls

GRANVILLE, Ohio -- The No. 9-ranked Kenyon College men's tennis team defeated more than its fair share of nationally-ranked opponents this season. Denison University, however, was not one of those teams. For the second time in a week, Denison, the defending national champion and currently ranked at No. 3, defeated the Owls.

Last Saturday, Denison handed Kenyon a 7-0 defeat in the final regular season match of the season. Today, the Big Red dealt a 4-0 loss to the Owls in the championship match of the 2026 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament. The win gave the Big Red their sixth straight NCAC Tournament championship, as well as the conference's automatic berth in the upcoming NCAA Division III Tournament.

The Owls got behind early, dropping two doubles matches while yielding the doubles team point to the Big Red. Ethan Green and Kael Shah got Denison going with a 6-1 win at No. 1 doubles, defeating Kenyon's pairing of Maximo Llamas Castellanos and Rohan Sriram. A few minutes later, the No. 3 doubles match was completed with Denison's team of Wesley Huang  and Jacob Patterson topping Kenyon's team of Alejandro Gonzalez and Eliezer Gonzalez by a 6-3 count.

Needing to win three of the six singles matches to clinch the conference title, the Big Red went back to work. The home team notched the first two of those three wins almost simultaneously. At No. 3 singles, Patterson knocked off Kenyon senior Paulo Pocasangre Kreling, 6-2, 6-2, and, at No. 4 singles, Andreas Chapides registered a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Kenyon junior Jay Kedar Dixit.

The clinching win came at No. 2 singles, where Shah got the best of Alejandro Gonzalez, 6-4, 6-3.

The match-up marked the seventh consecutive time these two teams met in the NCAC Tournament championship match. Denison now, 25-2 this season, has a 5-2 record in those last seven postseason meetings.

Kenyon, which dropped to 21-4 with the loss, will await word from the NCAA on whether or not it gains an at-large berth in the national tournament. That announcement is slated for Monday, May 4 at 12:30 p.m. 
 
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