Men's Tennis Southern Conference

SoCon Men's Tennis Results, Friday, April 16

Appalachian State 5, Elon 2

ELON, N.C. -- After sweeping all three doubles matches to claim that point, the Elon men's tennis squad proceeded to drop five of the six singles matches to fall 5-2 to visiting Appalachian State at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center on Friday afternoon. The Phoenix, who rode a three match winning streak into the day, now owns an 8-7 overall ledger and a 4-5 Southern Conference mark, while The Mountaineers now stand at 9-13, 4-5.

Elon's teams of Pramote Malasitt/Eric Haase (8-6 over Alex Probst/Ben Shuster) , Justin Roberson/Austin Fenn (9-8 over Jason Nius/Andrew Waters) and Thomas Rohof/Alex Thomson (8-6 over Dimitar Dimitrov/Andrew Taylor) each earned victories in doubles action to start the match.

In singles competition, the Mountaineers claimed victories at all but the number five position. Probst defeated Malasitt 6-0, 3-6, 6-0 at number one, Dimitrov polished off Haase 6-4, 6-3 at number two and Shuster won 6-3, 7-6 (10-8) at number three. Waters downed Roberson 6-3, 6-1 at number four and Taylor claimed a 6-2, 6-4 victory at number six for Appalachian State.

Elon's lone singles win came at number five as Fenn dropped Nius 6-1, 7-6 (11-9).

The Phoenix men and women will return to the courts tomorrow at Wofford at 1:00 p.m. Appalachian State will host Davidson tomorrow at 1:00 p.m.

UNCG 4, Davidson 3

Greensboro, NC > -> The UNC Greensboro men> '> s tennis team pulled out a 4-3 victory over Davidson in the final home match of the season Friday afternoon at the UNCG Tennis Complex.
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> With the win, UNCG improves to 5-16 overall and 4-5 in Southern Conference play, while Davidson slips to 9-10 on the season and 2-8 in league play.
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> It was Davidson however, who got on the board first as the Wildcats took the No. 2 and No. 3 double> '> s matches for the point. Rob Gould and John Bolton of Davidson claimed a tough 8-6 decision over Greg Levy and Marc Ladouceur at No. 2. The Wildcats> '> Bryan Stonestreet and Porus Jetli then claimed their own 8-6 win over Jason Steinhorn and Chris Magnone at No. 1. It was UNCG> '> s Pieter Visser and Julio Moran at No. 1 who defeated Rob Haywood and Russell Burns, 8-4.
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> In singles play, UNCG> '> s Greg Levy captured a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Rob Haywood at No. 1. Davidson> '> s Bryan Stonestreet picked up a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2) victory over Marc Ladouceur at No. 2. Julio Moran then claimed a three-set victory for the Spartans as he knocked off Russell Burns 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-4. The three-set matches continued at No. 4 the Wildcats> '> Porus Jetli came back to defeat Chris Magnone, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Pieter Visser got past Daniel Bermeo at No. 5, 7-6 (3), 6-4, and Jason Steinhorn slipped past Davidson> '> s John Bolton by the same score, 7-6 (3), 6-4 at No. 6.
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> Both teams will return to action again on Saturday in the final afternoon of the 2004 regular season. UNCG will travel to East Tennessee State to take on the Buccaneers at 11 am. Davidson will travel to Appalachian State for a 1 pm match.
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> UNCG 4, Davidson 3
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> Doubles
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> No. 1 Visser/Moran (UNCG) def. Haywood/Burns (DC) 8-4
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> No. 2 Gould/Bolton (DC) def. Levy/Ladouceur (UNCG) 8-6
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> No. 3 Stonestreet/Jetli (DC) def. Steinhorn/Magnone (UNCG) 8-6

> Singles
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> No. 1 Levy (UNCG) def. Haywood (DC) 6-2, 6-4
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> No. 2 Stonestreet (DC) def. Ladouceur (UNCG) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
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> No. 3 Moran (UNCG) def. Burns (DC) 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-4
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> No. 4 Jetli (DC) def. Magnone (UNCG) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
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> No. 5 Visser (UNCG) def. Bermeo (UNCG) 7-6 (3), 6-4
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> No. 6 Steinhorn (UNCG) def. Bolton (DC) 7-6 (3), 6-4