GREENSBORO, N.C. – The North Carolina Central men's tennis program competed at the Spartan Fall Invitational hosted by UNC Greensboro on Oct. 8-9, and Sebastian Pino earned a pair of singles wins while the doubles partnership of LaQuon Gilchrist and Facu Olmedo picked up a pair of doubles victories.
 
Pino opened the event by winning two singles matches against David Flisberg of UNCG, and Esteban Penagos of Elon. Both matches went into third-set tiebreaks, but Pino prevailed, 6-3, 6-7, 7-4 over Flisberg, and 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 over Penagos.

The duo of Gilchrist/Olmedo picked up their first doubles victory, 6-4 over Rivers Cahill and Neil O'Connor of Coastal Carolina on day one as well. Oliver Saarinen picked up the final Eagle victory of day one with a valiant three-set win over Ben Zipay from Elon, 2-6, 7-6, 8-6.
 
Gilchrist/Olmedo teamed up for another win on day two, as they defeated Andrew Blackmand Harrison Gwynn from UNCG, 7-6 (7-4). Two other Eagles pairings played into a tiebreak in doubles on day two, but the most thrilling was Naresh Bharathy and Neiman Sneed, who were defeated in a marathon match by Penagos and Luke Queiroz from Elon, 7-6 (14-12). 

Olmedo tied up the final win for the Eagles in the event in singles, as he took down Cahill of CCU, 6-3, 7-6.