CLAREMONT, Calif. – Cal Lutheran men's tennis wrapped up its fall season at the 2026 ITA Division III West Regional Championships, hosted by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Pomona-Pitzer, October 2-4.
The Kingsmen turned in several strong performances across singles and doubles, highlighted by
Jack Van Ness capturing the Flight B singles championship and
Carlo Drewelow winning the Flight C singles consolation title.
Van Ness put together an outstanding run in Flight B, winning five consecutive matches to claim the championship. He opened Friday with a comeback victory over Redlands' Patrick Ling, winning 5-7, 6-3, 10-5. He followed with a 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Rohan Yarlagadda to advance to Saturday's quarterfinals.
Van Ness continued his run with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Pomona-Pitzer's Jayanth Mallampati before battling back to defeat CMS' Ethan Kim in the semifinals, 4-6, 6-3, 10-5. In Sunday's championship match, Van Ness delivered a dominant performance against Redlands' Lucas Galy, winning 6-3, 6-1 to secure the Flight B title.
Maxence Faniel also advanced to the Flight B round of 16 after opening the tournament with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Chapman's Seif El Salawy. Faniel's run ended against Redlands' Luke Bishop, 6-1, 7-5.
In Flight A,
Louis Bocquet competed in the main draw before moving into consolation play, where he battled back from a 6-0 first-set loss against Redlands' Gustavo Marcanth to take the second set 7-5 and force a match tiebreak. Marcanth ultimately prevailed, 10-5, in the deciding tiebreak.
In Flight C,
Keoni Brady advanced to the quarterfinals after earning a pair of hard-fought victories. Brady rallied past UC Santa Cruz's Caden Wong, 5-7, 6-2, 10-7, in the opening round before defeating Colorado College's Mateo Gil, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 10-3, in the round of 16. His run ended in the quarterfinals against Occidental's Dane Harrington, 6-4, 6-3.
Juyoung Hong also advanced to the Flight C round of 16, opening with a convincing 6-3, 6-0 victory over Caltech's Ricky Huang before falling to UC Santa Cruz's Hudson Ward, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
Drewelow bounced back from a pair of narrow 7-6 losses in his opening match to put together an impressive run through the Flight C consolation draw. He began with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Richard Tellez before earning a bye into the consolation quarterfinals. Drewelow then defeated Chapman's Gaspard Lemaitre, 6-3, 7-5, and Colorado College's Hudson Chris, 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), to reach the consolation final. He capped his run with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Wong to claim the consolation championship.
Alexandre Allouche also picked up a singles victory in Flight C, defeating Colorado College's Hudson Chris, 6-4, 4-6, 10-8, before falling to Redlands' Antonio Campbell, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, in the round of 16.
In doubles,
Toki Adachi and Bocquet led the Kingsmen in Flight A, opening with an 8-6 win over Arizona Christian's Spyridon Papageorgiou and Ben Behrend. The pair continued its run Saturday with another 8-6 victory over Pomona-Pitzer's Kiran Vairavanathan and Leo Rocca to reach the quarterfinals, where they fell to CMS' Henry Wilson and Kristian Sharma, 8-6.
Brady and Drewelow also earned a doubles consolation victory, defeating Caltech's David Jin and Soren Ghorai after an 8-6 opening-round loss to UC Santa Cruz. After receiving a bye, the duo fell 8-6 to CMS' Amrith Kodumuri and Charles Martin in the consolation quarterfinals.
Jonathan Hinkel and
Harry Plataniotis added an 8-2 consolation win over Whittier's Dylan Duong and Aravind Binoj after an 8-6 opening-round loss to Redlands. Following a bye, the pair's run ended against Pomona-Pitzer's Jonathan Seder and Samuel English, 8-3.
The ITA West Regionals marked the conclusion of the Kingsmen's fall competition. Cal Lutheran will return to the courts in spring 2027.
