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Men's Tennis Falls To Temple In Tight 5-2 Match
2/21/2009 3:19:31 PM | Men's Tennis
Philadelphia - Drexel men's tennis suffered its first loss of the spring, falling to city rival Temple 5-2 at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Center. Carlo Pangilinan won a three-set match over Ricardo Velazquez at second singles and the Dragons took two of three doubles matches for their second team point. Drexel drops to 4-3 on the season in dual match play.
Pangilinan gave the Dragons their only singles win of the day when he bounced back after dropping the second set against Velazquez 6-4 to put away the third set 6-3 and win the match. He teamed with Joe Koebele to top Velazquez and Stephanides 8-2 at first doubles as well. Bryan Nguyen and Mehdi Rhazali also won at third doubles over Nathan Spunda and Dimtry Vizhunov 8-6.
The Dragons are back in action on Sunday, Feb. 22 when they take on Lehigh in a dual match at 10:00 a.m.
#1 Singles Filip Rams d. Joey Koebele (DU) 6-2, 6-4
#2 Singles Carlo Pangilinan (DU) d. Ricardo Velasquez 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
#3 Singles Nathan Spunda d. Mehdi Rhazali (DU) 7-6 (4), 6-3
#4 Singles Dmitry Vizhunov d. Jason Savage-Pollock (DU) 6-3, 6-4
#5 Singles Mansur Gishkaev d. Bryan Nguyen (DU) 6-2, 6-1
#6 Singles Eduardo Saavedra d. Ben Trabin (DU) 6-0, 6-1
#1 Doubles Joey Koebele/Carlo Pangilinan (DU) d. Ricardo Velasquez/Pavlos Stephanides 8-2
#2 Doubles Eduardo Saavedra/Filip Rams d. Sabyasachi Bose/Jason Savage-Pollock (DU) 8-0
#3 Doubles Bryan Nguyen/Mehdi Rhazali (DU) d. Nathan Spunda/Dmitry Vizhunov 8-6
