INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 3 Saint Leo men's tennis team suffered a 4-3 defeat to No. 2 Barry in the 2024 ITA National Indoor Championship final on Sunday afternoon.

The Lions earned a pair of wins in the doubles competition. During first doubles, senior Luis Iriarte and sixth-year Martin Soukal tallied a 6-4 win graduate students Nicolas Bacella and Ghali Mensour registered a 6-3 victory to clinch the doubles point.

Between two singles wins from Barry, junior Vincent Thiel collected a 6-4, 6-4 victory in No. 2 singles. Slotted in the sixth-singles match was junior Dylan Andrianaly as he notched a 6-2, 6-1 win in that position.

#2 Barry 4, #3 Saint Leo 3

Doubles

1. Martin Soukal/Luis Iriarte (SLU) def. Adam Lynch/Leo Caill (Barry) 6-4
2. #7 Nicholas Bacella/Ghali Mensour (SLU) def. Joao Ferreira/David Rieme (Barry) 6-3
3. Bastien Rieme/Tim Riedel (Barry) def. Eduardo Cohen/Vincent Thiel (SLU) 6-1

Singles

Joao Ferreira (Barry) def. #18 Martin Soukal (SLU) 3-6, 2-6
#36 Vincent Thiel (SLU) def. Adam Lynch (Barry) 6-4, 6-4
Tim Riedel (Barry) def. Ghali Mensour (SLU) 4-6, 2-6
David Rieme (Barry) def. Nicholas Bacella (SLU) 3-6, 4-6
Bastien Rieme (Barry) vs. Luis Iriarte (SLU) 6-4, 2-6, 3-6
Dylan Andrianaly (SLU) def. Ilian Borlee (Barry) 6-2, 6-1

Order of finish

Doubles: 3, 1, 2
Singles: 6, 4, 2, 1, 3, 5

Saint Leo returns to the court as it travels to Eckerd in St. Petersburg, Fla. in a Sunshine State Conference (SSC) on Wednesday, Feburary 28 at 3 p.m.