Friday, March 10, 2006

NO. 23 ANDERSON WINS 6-3 OVER NO. 36 TUSCULUM

ANDERSON, S.C. --- The No. 23 Anderson University men's tennis team rallied from a 2-1 deficit in doubles to win five of the six singles matches to post a 6-3 win over No. 36 Tusculum College Friday afternoon in non-conference action.

The Pioneers captured points at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles including a 9-8 pro set win by Pedro Galavis and Julien Jacob in the third flight. The No. 1 pairing of Carlos Garcia and Sergio Espinosa won 8-2 in their match.

But in singles it was Anderson who dominated winning all but the No. 4 singles match as TC's Garcia won 6-3, 6-1 over Raul Luna.

Tusculum is back in action on Wednesday when it opens South Atlantic Conference play at Carson-Newman College for a 3 p.m. match.

- TC -

No. 23 Anderson 6, No. 36 Tusculum 3
Singles
1 - Phillippe Magat (AU) def. Pedro Galavis	6-2, 6-4
2 - Gustavo Carvalho (AU) def. Antonio Oliver	6-3, 6-3
3 - Carlos Sanches (AU) def. Sergio Espinosa	6-4, 6-1
4 - Carlos Garcia (TC) def. Raul Luna	6-3, 6-1
5 - Lucas Moraes (AU) def. Julien Jacob	6-4, 6-2
6 - Srikrishna Ramanathan (AU) def. Leo Guaycurus	6-1, 6-1
Doubles
1 - Garcia/Espinosa (TC) def. Weisskopf/Magat	8-2
2 - Sanches/Carvalho (AU) def. Oliver/Guaycurus	8-1
3 - Galavis/Jacob (TC) def. Ramanthan/Luna	9-8