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(April 16, 2008) – The UC Riverside men's tennis team
(7-12, 0-4) topped Vanguard University, the eighth ranked
NAIA school in the nation, 4-3, Wednesday afternoon at UC
Riverside's Student Recreation Center Tennis Complex. The
Highlanders have one more match against conference rival Cal
Poly before the Big West Championships, Apr. 24-27.
The Highlanders began the match by taking the doubles point,
sweeping all three matches. UC Riversides' No. 2 tandem of
Quoc Doan
and John Park
took care of their opponents 8-4,
with Raineir Matias
and Jack Tadevosian
taking the No. 3 Doubles
match by an identical score. Joe Cartledge
and Ahmad Shiraz
eked out a 9-7 victory at No. 1.
With the doubles point in hand, the Highlanders needed to
at least split the six singles matches to pick up the overall
win, which they did as Park won at No. 4 Singles 6-4, 6-2;
Doan took his No. 5 Singles match 6-1, 6-4; and Shiraz took
care of his opponent at No. 6 Singles 6-1, 6-2.
UC Riverside 4, Vanguard University
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04/16/08 at UC Riverside
Doubles Competition
No. 1 Cartledge/Shiraz (UCR) def. Stockler/Brodar (VU) 9-7
No. 2 Doan/Park (UCR) def. Lemke/Chevalier (VU) 8-4
No. 3 Raineir Matias/Tadevosian (UCR) def. Gillon/Blake Lamberth
(VU) 8-4
Singles Competition
No. 1 Florian Lemke (VU) def. Joe Cartledge (UCR) 6-3, 6-1
No. 2 Dominic Stockler (VU) def. Gorjan Kovacevic (UCR) 6-1,
6-3
No. 3 Tino Brodar (VU) def. Jack Tadevosian (UCR) 6-4, 7-6
No. 4 John Park (UCR) def. Greg Chevalier (VU) 6-4, 6-2
No. 5 Quoc Doan (UCR) def. Thomas Frank (VU) 6-1, 6-4
No. 6 Ahmad Shiraz (UCR) def. Garrett Gillon (VU) 6-4, 6-1
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