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Owls Rally For 5-2 Win Over Southern Miss
3/15/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
March 15, 2009
The 31st-ranked Rice Owls men's tennis team rallied back from a loss in doubles to win five of six singles matches at take a 5-2 decision over Southern Miss on Sunday. The match was moved indoors to the Galleria Tennis Center due to continued rains in the Houston area.
The Golden Eagles grabbed the doubles point by taking the matches at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions and added a second point with a win at No.1 singles, but the Owls struck back with straight-set wins at No. 2 (Bruno Rosa), No.3 (Sam Garaforth-Bles), No. 4 (Isamu Tachibana) and No. 5 (Dennis Polyakov) to clinch the match. Freshman Christian Saravia then won a third-set tie breaker at No. 6 to close out the match.
The Owls will be back on the road on Tuesday when they travel to Austin to take on 10th-ranked Texas at 6 p.m. They return home this weekend for matches against Texas Pan American, Texas A&M Corpus Christi and San Diego State as part of the 51st Annual Hampton Inn Galleria Rice Invitational.
Tennis Match Results
Southern Miss vs Rice
3/15/2009 at Houston, Texas
(Galleria Tennis Center)
#31 Rice 5, #75 Southern Miss 2
Singles competition
1. Patricio Alvarado (USMM) def. Christoph Müller (RICE) 6-3, 6-2
2. Bruno Rosa (RICE) def. Andrew Poole (USMM) 6-0, 6-2
3. Sam Garforth-Bles (RICE) def. Domagoj Anic (USMM) 6-4, 6-2
4. Isamu Tachibana (RICE) def. Diego Machuca (USMM) 6-3, 6-3
5. Dennis Polyakov (RICE) def. Oscar Machuca (USMM) 6-4, 6-2
6. Christian Saravia (RICE) def. Strate Krstevski (USMM) 5-7, 6-3, 10-6
Doubles competition
1. Christoph Müller/Tobias Scheil (RICE) vs. Andrew Poole/Jan Burmeister (USMM) 7-3, unfinished
2. Markus Wessinghage/Patricio Alvarado (USMM) def. Isamu Tachibana/Bruno Rosa (RICE) 8-6
3. Domagoj Anic/Diego Machuca (USMM) def. Sam Garforth-Bles/Christian Saravia (RICE) 8-3
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