Ball State
Men's Tennis Suffers 4-3 Loss to Ball State
4/20/2013 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY – The University at Buffalo men's tennis team dropped a 4-3 decision on Saturday afternoon to visiting Ball State at the Miller Tennis Center. The Bulls are now 9-8 (3-1 MAC) headed into tomorrow's regular season finale against Northern Illinois.
The Bulls scored all three of their wins against the Cardinals (16-7, 5-0) in singles play, including a pair of three-set victories. Both Vusa Hove, at number one, and Damien David, at number two, each earned their 17th singles wins of the season. Hove, playing at number one earned a win when his Ball State opponent, Ray Leonard, retired. Hove led the third set, 2-1, after the pair split tiebreakers in the opening two sets. David rolled to a 7-5, 6-2 win over Cliff Morrison in the number two match. for his seventh consecutive singles win and stayed unbeaten against Mid-American Conference opponents at 4-0. Also taking a three-set win was Pablo Alvarez, in the number four match, as he downed Patrick Elliott 6-1, 5-7, 7-5.
UB finishes the regular season on Sunday at 10:00 am against Northern Illinois (14-8, 2-2 MAC) in a contest to determine the number two seed in next weekend's MAC Championships.
Ball State 4, Buffalo 3
Doubles
1 Ray Leonard/Patrick Elliott (BSU) d. Damien David/Ashwin Sharma (UB), 8-2
2 Dalton Albertin/Cliff Morrison (BSU) d. Akhil Mehta/Sebastian Ionescu (UB), 8-2
3 Imanol Arconada/Alexandre Brym (BSU) led Yevgeniy Jason Shkodnik/Vusa Hove (UB), 5-3 DNF
Order of finish: 1, 2
Singles
1 Vusa Hove (UB) d. Ray Leonard (BSU), 7-6 (3), 6-7 (6), 2-1 ret.
2 Damien David (UB) d. Cliff Morrison (BSU), 7-5, 6-2
3 Dalton Albertin (BSU) d. Sebastian Ionescu (UB), 6-3, 7-5
4 Pablo Alvarez (UB) d. Patrick Elliott (BSU), 6-1, 5-7, 7-5
5 Alexandre Brym (BSU) d. Sergio Arevalillo (UB), 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-1
6 Austin Smith (BSU) d. Akhil Mehta (UB), 7-6 (6), 6-1
Order of finish: 3, 2, 6, 5, 1, 4
