HOLLAND, Mich. -- The Allegheny College men's tennis team sent eight student-athletes to participate in the Hope Invitational, hosted by Hope College in Holland, Michigan, on Friday and Saturday.

Over the two-day event, Allegheny collected 20 wins. Three Gators advanced to the final round of their flight in singles competition, as did one doubles duo.

Freshmen Adam Memije (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) and Zidaan Hassan (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) battled their way through Draw D and eventually squared off in the championship match. Memije's run to the finals included 8-0 victories over Kosuke Asada from Ohio Northern University and Jack Oswald from Adrian College. Hassan defeated Calvin University's Tanner Warners in the semifinals, 8-4, before falling to his former high school teammate in the finals, 8-3.

In Draw E, Reid Stasolla (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel) reached the finals. He defeated Aaron Davis of ONU and Hunter Napieralski of Hope with identical 8-1 scores in his first two matches. Stasolla then took down Calvin's James VanderArk in the semis, 8-6, but fell to Roosevelt University's DeMille Scarabello in the finals, 8-0.

Stasolla also qualified for the championship match in the Draw C doubles flight with Levente Mihaly (Békéscsaba, Hungary/Békéscsabai SZC Széchenyi István). The Gator tandem began with back-to-back 6-0 shutouts against teams from Ohio Northern and Adrian with 6-0 shutouts. After a 6-3 victory in the semifinals, Roosevelt's Lluc Mascaro Sierra and Juan Pablo Espinosa halted the run by Stasolla and Mihaly in the championship, 6-2.

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The Gators and Case Western Reserve University will go head-to-head in the Blue and Gold Invitational at the Robertson Athletic Complex on Saturday, September 20.