EDINBORO, Pa. – The Edinboro men's tennis begins their quest to win the 2018 PSAC Men's Tennis Championship this weekend when face off against Kutztown on Friday, April 20 in the semifinals. By virtue of a 4-1 PSAC record, the Fighting Scots earned the number two seed. The Golden Bears are the number three seed.
 
Bloomsburg is the host university for the 2018 Championships.
 
Interim Head Coach Kody Duncan will bring a team that is currently ranked fifth in the region, the three-time PSAC Singles Champion Vitor Albanese and current PSAC doubles champion in Albanese and Daniel Fernandez into the tournament.
 
Albanese did not drop a set in conference play this season, going 5-0 in both singles and doubles, respectively. In his three matches against opponents in the PSAC tournament, he dropped only seven total games over six sets. In his match against Martin Munoz of Kutztown, he won 6-1, 6-0. In doubles against the Golden Bears, Albanese teamed up with Mateus Santos at the number one spot and did not drop a game in their 8-0 win.
 
In his matches, Fernandez went 3-2 in singles and 5-0 in doubles during the regular season against conference opponents. Against Kutztown, he won in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1 over Nikolay Kodinov. He paired with Kevin Mboko in doubles against the Golden Bears and earned the 8-4 win.
 
Mboko dropped only one match against PSAC opponents in both singles and doubles. In singles against Kutztown, he won in straight sets over Gabriel Nogara Souza, 6-3, 6-1 at number six, after winning his doubles match with Fernandez.
 
Mateus Santos won his first set against Nolan Perugini of Kutztown in the regular season, before retiring early in the second set, 7-6, 1-2 (ret.). In doubles, he won his match at number one with Albanese, 8-0.
 
Mauricio Santos (not related to Mateus) went 8-2 combined in both singles and doubles against conference opponents during the regular season. Against the Golden Bears, he picked up a doubles win with Christian Roettger, 8-5, over Munoz and Diego Nunez Contreras.
 
Roettger, who joined the Fighting Scots in the spring, dropped his singles match against Kutztown, 7-6 (6), 7-5 after winning his doubles with Mauricio Santos.
 
Thomas McCoy played in both PSAC matches during the fall against West Chester and Millersville and came away with wins in both singles and doubles.
 
Overall, the Fighting Scots are a combined 34-11 in singles and doubles against PSAC opponents this spring.
 
The winner of the Edinboro/Kutztown match will face the winner of the Mercyhurst/Bloomsburg match on Saturday, April 21 in the final, with the winner earning an automatic berth in the NCAA Atlantic Regional.