BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg men's tennis team fell to No. 1 seed Edinboro in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) semifinal match Saturday afternoon at the Burt Reese Tennis Center.
 
The Fighting Scots were able to take the doubles points after winning the No. 2 and No. 3 matches. In the No. 2 doubles match, Thibault Dorval and Manav Sreekumar had a 6-1 win over Fernando Barros (Sao Paulo, Brazil/Hoosac School) and Arnav Sharma (Haryana,India/Suncity School). Kaio Sacchi and Ruben Acuna then defeated Oliver Wiesemann (Jena, Germany/Deutsche Schule Málaga (Spain)) and Iu Casamitjana (Igualada, Spain/Escola Pia Igualada) 6-0 in the No. 2 match.
 
Albert Martin (Barcelona/Instituto Menendez y Pelayo) and Vishesh Patel (Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India/Asia English School) were tied with Edinboro's Bruno Sabio and Rocco Palombarini in the No. 1 doubles match before it was marked as unfinished after the Fighting Scots finished up the other two matches with wins to gain the doubles point.
 
During the singles portion of the event, the Fighting Scots won the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 6 matches to finish with the 4-0 victory. Acuna defeated Victor Martinez (Barcelona, Spain/Padre Damian Sagrados Corazones) in 6-0 in both sets of the No. 2 match, and Sreekumar held off Casamitjana for wins of 6-4 and 6-3 to pull out the win in the No. 3 match. In the No. 6 match, Sharma fell to Sacchi in both sets.
 
Barros took Edinboro's Dorval to a tiebreaker in his first set during the first set of the No. 5 singles match, then the contest was not finished after the Fighting Scots picked up the three wins for the victory.
 
The loss closes out the year for the Huskies, who had a solid year overall and clinched the No. 4 seed for the conference tournament after putting together a 3-3 conference record.
 
Edinboro advances to the PSAC Championship on Sunday and will look to win its third straight conference title when it takes on Mercyhurst at 1:00 PM at the Burt Reese Tennis Center in Bloomsburg.