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Owls Fall to Texas, 4-3
3/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
March 17, 2009
Bruno Rosa and Isamu Tachibana each defeated ranked opponents, but 11th-ranked Texas had too much firepower as the Longhorns down the 36th-ranked Owls 4-3 at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center in Austin on Tuesday night.
Rosa, who came into the match ranked 45th nationally, took a straight set decision from 45th-ranked Ed Corrie of Texas (6-3, 6-3). Tachibana came back from a 6-1 loss in the first set to best 112th-ranked Olivier Sajous 1-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Tobias Scheil picked up the Owls final point, taking a three-set decision at No. 4 singles, (6-7. 6-3, 6-4)
The Owls will be back home for three matches this weekend 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
Rice vs Texas
3/17/2009 at Austin, Texas
(Penick-Allison Tennis Center)
#11 Texas 4, #36 Rice 2
Singles competition
1. #19 Dimitar Kutrovsky (TEXAS) def. #42 Christoph Müller (RICE) 6-2, 6-3
2. #46 Bruno Rosa (RICE) def. #45 Ed Corrie (TEXAS) 6-3, 6-3
3. Miguel Reyes Varela (TEXAS) def. Sam Garforth-Bles (RICE) 6-4, 7-6
4. Tobias Scheil (RICE) def. Kellen Damico (TEXAS) 7-6, 3-6, 6-4
5. Isamu Tachibana (RICE) def. #112 Olivier Sajous (TEXAS) 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
6. Josh Zavala (TEXAS) def. Dennis Polyakov (RICE) 6-3, 7-6
Doubles competition
1. #23 Ed Corrie/Kellen Damico (TEXAS) def. #47 Christoph Müller/Tobias Scheil (RICE) 8-7
2. Dimitar Kutrovsky/Josh Zavala (TEXAS) def. Bruno Rosa/Isamu Tachibana (RICE) 8-4
3. #50 Miguel Reyes Varela/Olivier Sajous (TEXAS) def. Sam Garforth-Bles/Dennis Polyakov (RICE) 8-5
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