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Dolphins Edge Penmen for Top Spot.
MANSFIELD, Mass. – Coming off the first league title in program history in 2021, Le Moyne has been chosen to repeat in the 2022 Northeast-10 Conference Men's Tennis Coaches' Poll – as announced by the NE10 office on Friday morning.
The Dolphins, under seventh-year head coach Jeff Lonczak, tallied four of eight first-place votes from head coaches and totaled 46 points overall – edging out Southern New Hampshire for the top spot in the poll. Le Moyne finished the conference schedule with a perfect 8-0 record in the spring of 2021, going on to win its first-ever NE10 title with a 4-1 victory over Franklin Pierce.
SNHU recorded 44 points and three first-place votes to finish in second place in the poll. The Penmen, winners of four-straight NE10 titles from 2016 to 2019, went 7-1 in conference play during the 2021 season – earning the No. 2 seed in the NE10 Men's Tennis Championship.
Franklin Pierce, the 2021 NE10 finalist, placed third in the poll with 36 points and the final first-place vote. Adelphi came in fourth with 30 points and Bentley in fifth with 27 to round-out the top five.
To view the complete NE10 Men's Tennis Coaches' Poll, please see below. Men's tennis matches start up again the first weekend of February, while conference play begins in mid-March for the majority of programs.
2022 NE10 Men's Tennis Coaches' Poll
1. Le Moyne – 46 (4)
2. SNHU – 44 (3)
3. Franklin Pierce – 36 (1)
4. Adelphi – 30
5. Bentley – 27
6. Saint Michael's – 16
7. Stonehill – 14
8. Assumption – 11
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