Michigan
Texas
Men's Tennis Drops Road Match to No. 5 Texas
2/26/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
Site: Austin, Texas (Penick-Allison Tennis Center)
Score: #5 Texas 6, #19 Michigan 1
Records: U-M (6-2), Texas (10-1)
Next U-M Match: Saturday, March 1 -- at #17 Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, N.C.), 1 p.m.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The No. 19-ranked University of Michigan men's tennis team dropped a 6-1 decision to No. 5-ranked Texas Tuesday (Feb. 26)at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center. The Wolverines (6-2) surrendered their first doubles point in eight matches this season, and the Longhorns (10-1) claimed victories on five of six singles courts to avenge last year's 5-2 loss to the Maize and Blue in Ann Arbor (Jan. 27, 2007).
The Longhorns posted straight-set victories in the first four singles matches completed to take a 5-0 advantage before senior Matko Maravic(Zagreb, Croatia/V. Gimnazija) picked up his biggest win of the season, a 7-5, 6-3 upset over No. 18-ranked Kellen Damico at No. 2, to give Michigan its only team point. Maravic has won 14 of 18 matches dating back to the fall.
Michigan's No. 1 and No. 3 doubles tandems lost for the first time this year, allowing Texas to take a 1-0 lead. Maravic and sophomore George Navas(Tampa, Fla./Tampa Preparatory School) fell 8-4 to Ed Corrie and Damico at No. 1, while junior Andrew Mazlin(Altamonte Springs, Fla./Lyman HS) and freshman Chris Madden(Lotus, Calif./Ponderosa HS) lost 8-4 to Dimitar Kutrovsky and Josh Zavala at No. 3. Both Wolverine duos held 6-0 records in dual-match play heading into the match.
Sophomore Mike Sroczynski(Chatham, N.J./Laurel Springs School) and freshman Jason Jung(Torrance, Calif./West Torrance HS) squeezed out an 8-7 win over Luis Diaz Barriga and Miguel Reyes Varela at No. 2 to prevent Texas from taking the doubles sweep. Sroczynski and Jung, the 29th-ranked pair in the nation, improve to a team-best 14-2 in 2007-08.
Madden nearly completed a comeback victory at No. 5 singles, but Reyes Varela won in a super-tiebreaker, 7-5, 2-6, 1-0(9).
The Wolverines stay on the road to face No. 17-ranked Wake Forest on Saturday (March 1) in Winston-Salem, N.C. The match is scheduled for a 1 p.m. startat the University Indoor Tennis Center.
Following are match-by-match results:
Singles
No. 1 -- #54 Dimitar Kutrovsky (Texas) d. Jason Jung, 6-2, 6-3
No. 2 -- Matko Maravic (U-M) d. #18 Kellen Damico, 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 -- #24 Ed Corrie (Texas) d. Mike Sroczynski, 6-3, 7-5
No. 4 -- #88 Luis Diaz Barriga (Texas) d. Andrew Mazlin, 6-4, 7-5
No. 5 -- Miguel Reyes Varela (Texas) d. Chris Madden, 7-5, 2-6, 1-0(9)
No. 6 -- Josh Zavala (Texas) d. Peter Aarts, 6-0, 6-3
Doubles
No. 1 -- Corrie/Damico (Texas) d. #11 Maravic/George Navas, 8-4
No. 2 -- #29 Jung/Sroczynski (U-M) d. Diaz Barriga/Reyes Varela, 8-7
No. 3 -- Kutrovsky/Zavala (Texas) #46 Madden/Mazlin, 8-4
Order of Completion: Doubles 1-3-2, Singles 6-1-3-4-2-5
Contact: Marc Ressler (734) 763-4423
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