Men's Tennis Falls at No. 3 Ohio State

Jan. 23, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Xavier Musketeer men's tennis team fell to the No. 3-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, 7-0, Wednesday night at the Ohio State University Varsity Tennis Center. XU falls to 1-2 on the season while OSU improves to 2-0 for the year.

"This is one of the best teams we will play all year and the guys did well," said head coach Eric Toth. "If we are fortunate enough to make it to the NCAA Tournament, this will be the type of team we will face. I wanted the team to see what it might be like come May."

Ohio State picked up the first point of the match by sweeping all three doubles contests. Sophomore Chris Herrlinger and freshman Brian Starr fell to OSU's 19^th-ranked duo of Mike O'Connell and Matt Allare, 8-4, at the one-spot.

Junior Mike Dieciuc led Ohio State's Dominic Ozanne 5-4 in the first set before Ozanne rallied to take the frame, 7-5, and eventually the second set, 6-2, for the match. Junior Ra'ees Ismail also played Shuhei Uzawa very closely before falling

Up next for the Musketeers is a trip to Cleveland, Ohio where they are set to face Cleveland State on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. On Sunday, XU will face Buffalo in a neutral site match-up at 9 a.m.

 

No. 3 Ohio State, 7 vs. Xavier, 0
6 p.m.
Jan. 23, 2008
Ohio State University Varsity Tennis Center
Columbus, Ohio

 

Doubles
1. No. 19 O'Connell/Allare (OSU) def. Herrlinger/Starr (XU) 8-4

2. Moneke/Kronauge (OSU) def. Ismail/Torbeck (XU) 8-4

3. Koniecko/Eberly (OSU) def. Anthony Palmenter/Schubert (XU) 8-1

Singles
1. No. 60 Steven Moneke (OSU) def. Chris Herrlinger (XU) 6-0, 6-2   

2. No. 85 Bryan Koniecko (OSU) def. J.T. Torbeck (XU) 6-4, 6-1      

3. Shuhei Uzawa (OSU) def. Ra'ees Ismail (XU) 7-5, 6-0   

4. No. 95 Drew Eberly (OSU) def. Brian Starr (XU) 6-1, 6-0        

5. Matt Allare (OSU) def. Brian Schubert (XU) 6-3, 6-2  

6. Dominic Ozanne (OSU) def. Mike Dieciuc (XU) 7-5, 6-3 

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Mike Dieciuc

Chris Herrlinger

Ra'ees Ismail

Anthony Palmenter

Brian Schubert

Brian Starr

J.T. Torbeck

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