Box Score FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- The Christopher Newport men's tennis team wrapped up the second day of action at the ITA Southeast Regional Championships on Saturday and were led by sophomore Ahun Vodela in the B2 Draw. Vodela advanced to the finals of his bracket and finished the weekend with a 3-1 appearance at the ITA Regionals. 

The Captains also saw their top doubles tandem reach the quarterfinals of the championship draw as senior Alec Strause and rookie Vincent Truong picked up a second win on Saturday. The CNU tandem secured an 8-6 win over Artis Hart and Andrew Cooper from Mary Washington to earn a trip to the quarterfinal round. 

Strause and Truong became the first tandem since Jackson Guilford and Nicholas Ruzicka in 2017 to advance to the quarterfinals of the championship doubles draw. Earning their way into the final eight as the No. 4 seed, the Captains' duo defeated Connor Coleman and Rider Yeaman from Washington and Lee in the Round of 32, 8-5, in Friday's match before Saturday's win over UMW in the Round of 16. In the quarters, Strause and Truong suffered an 8-6 loss to Johns Hopkins' pair Hanyu Liu and George Jiang. 

In singles play, Vodela earned three straight wins before falling in the B2 finals by a final score of 8-3 against Andres Fente (Swarthmore). Vodela won in the Round of 16, 8-6, against Grove City College's Benjamin Jones before capturing an 8-7 (5) win over Mary Washington's Foster Evans in the quarterfinals. He then faced Drew Campbell, also from Mary Washington, in the semifinals and pulled away for an 8-5 win to play into the finals against Fente. 

In other singles matches, Strause was eliminated from the championship draw by Washington College (Md.) veteran Karl Hoegstedt. The Shoreman captured a 6-2, 6-4 win over Strause.

The ITA Southeast Regionals continue on Sunday, October 2. The Captains will close out the fall season and return to action in the Spring with the dual season starting on February 4 against Virginia Wesleyan University.