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Blue Raiders fall in regular season finale
4/12/2015 2:35:00 PM | Men's Tennis
MT drops 4-0 at USF
TAMPA, Fla. - Middle Tennessee men's tennis dropped its match at No. 19 USF 4-0 in its regular season finale on Sunday afternoon.
The Bulls grabbed the early advantage after clinching the doubles point with a win at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots over Yannick Born and Miguel Negre Fernandez as well as Ettore Zito and Dima Zyhmantovich.
USF carried that momentum into singles play as Zito fell to the Bulls' Roberto Cid 6-1, 6-2 on the top court to give USF the 2-0 lead in the match.
Negre Fernandez then fell 6-1, 6-3 at the No. 6 spot, while Victor Hoang fell 6-2, 6-2 at the No. 5 position to clinch the 4-0 victory for the Bulls.
Middle Tennessee heads into the Conference USA Championship with a 13-12 record and still awaits its seeding. The championship is set to start Friday, April 17.
No. 19 USF 4, MTSU 0
Singles:
1. Roberto Cid (USF) def. Ettore Zito (MTSU), 6-1, 6-2
2. Oliver Pramming (USF) vs. Ben Davis (MTSU), 6-3, 3-1 DNF
3. Sasha Gozun (USF) vs. Yannick Born (MTSU), 6-2, 4-3 DNF
4. Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz (USF) vs. Robin Riethmueller (MTSU), 1-6, 5-2 DNF
5. Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (USF) def. Victor Hoang (MTSU), 6-2, 6-2
6. Justin Roberts (USF) def. Miguel Negre Fernandez (MTSU), 6-1, 6-3
Order of Finish: 1, 6, 5
Doubles:
1. Oliver Pramming/Justin Roberts vs. Ben Davis/Victor Hoang, DNF
2. Roberto Cid/Sasha Gozun def. Yannick Born/Miguel Negre Fernandez, 6-4
3. Vadym Kalyuzhnyy/Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz def. Ettore Zito/Dima Zyhmantovich, 6-2
Order of Finish: 3, 2
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