WASHINGTON - The Georgetown men's tennis team completed competition at the Penn Invitational hosted at the University of Pennsylvania over the weekend. There was no team scoring in the event, but participants played in a dual match format and earned points on singles and doubles flight victories.

On Friday, the Hoyas were matched up with Cornell and Saint Joseph's. Against Cornell, the Hoyas were victorious in doubles play when the duo of Shane Korber (Newport Beach, Calif./Corona del Mar) and Yannik Mahlangu (Henderson, Nev./Green Valley) took down Dylan Brown and Andrew Dykeman, 8-7. Cornell was victorious in the second doubles match and took down members of the Blue & Gray in singles.

GU had better results against St. Joseph's, who the team faced in their second match of the day. In doubles, Jack Murphy (Coronado, Calif./La Jolla Country Day) and John Brosens (Bedford, N.Y./Pendleton) were victorious, 8-5, over Renier Moolman and Valenttijn van Erven. In singles, Daniel Khanin (Baldwin, N.Y./Pendleton), playing in the No. 1 slot, took down Pierre Brondeau 6-3, 6-3. Korber, who played in the No. 3 spot, followed suit with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Jason Sisti; Mahlangu was in the No. 4 match and defeated Peter Dewitt 6-4, 6-3.

"That's the ideal fall weekend that you want to have for a team that has a combination of experience and youth" said Head Coach Gordon Ernst. "You want to have a match like the one we had with Cornell that leaves the team hungry, because they can see how close they are. It shows you that we have a pretty good team this year."

Georgetown faced Temple in its first matchup on Saturday. Alex Tropiano (Laurel Hollow, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor) and Jordan Portner (Ellicott, Md./Mount Saint Joseph) played in the No. 1 slot and defeated Nicolas Paulus 6-3. Korber and Mahlangu emerged from the No. 3 slot with a victory over Filip Stipcic and Santiago Canete 7-6 (9-7), while Murphy paired with Brosens to take down Hernan Vasquez and Stephen Ong 6-3.

In singles action, seven Hoyas earned victories over their Temple foes. Khanin played from the No. 1 slot and took down Paulus in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0. Freshmen Marco Lam (Hong Kong, China/ Diocesan Boys' School) playing at No. 2, defeated Belkssir 7-5, 6-0, while his classmate Peter Beatty (Portland, Ore./Middlesex School) was victorious over Stipic 5-7, 7-6 (5), 1-0 (6).

Tropiano continued the winning trend with his 7-5, 6-4 victory over Canete in No. 4 singles and Murphy won from the No. 5 slot, 6-3, 6-1, over Vineet Naran. Mahlangu and Portner rounded out the match with respective wins over Ong, 6-4, 6-1 and Maros Januvka 6-1, 6-3,

The Hoyas finished off the weekend against Lehigh, racking up seven wins.

Tropiano and Beatty were victorious over Ben Gilman and Jeremy Kochman, 6-3, playing from the No. 1 doubles slot. From the No. 2 spot, Khanin and Lam posted a 6-1 win over Jack Peterson and Mitchell Petersen.

In singles Lam took down Jack Petersen 6-1, 6-2 from the No. 2 spot while Mahlunga triumphed over Ethan Bogard, 6-4, 6-3 from the No. 6 spot. Portner and Brosens provided the final victories of the weekend for GU. Portner posted 7-5, 6-3 wins over Tyler Hansen and Brosens took down Ricardo Prince 6-3, 6-4.

The Hoya men complete the fall portion of their schedule when they compete at ITA Regionals from Oct. 16-19 in Charlottesville, Va.