Yellowjacket Tennis Teams Lose to Top-Ranked Teams (Apr. 9, 2004)
LAIE, HI – The Montana
State-Billings tennis teams met the No. 1-ranked
teams in the nation Friday at the PacWest Tennis
Championships and were shutout in both matches. The
men’s team fell 8-0 to Hawaii Pacific, and the
women’s team lost 9-0 to BYU-Hawaii.
Hawaii Pacific’s men’s team is
the defending PacWest champion and finished second
at last year’s national tournament. The Sea
Warriors won all six single matches against the
Yellowjackets Friday, with MSUB’s only serious
challenge coming in the No. 6 spot where the
Jackets’ Andres Calabro lost to Phillip Eiseler, 7-6
(6), 6-4. HPU took the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles
matches, 8-4. To keep the tournament on schedule,
the match can be called once a team has won five
matches. The Yellowjacket men’s team faces No. 6
seed Chaminade in Saturday’s final match at 6:30
p.m. Mountain Time.
The Lady Jackets were no match
for the top-ranked Seasiders in the day’s late
match, losing 5-0 to the two-time defending national
champions. BYU-Hawaii has won 94 consecutive
matches and is favored to capture its third-straight
national championship. MSU Billings managed to win
just three games in the six single matches against
the Seasiders, and three games in the three doubles
matches. The Lady Yellowjackets face No. 6 seed
Western New Mexico in Saturday’s final match at 6:30
p.m. Mountain Time.
Men: #1 Hawaii Pacific 8, #4
MSU Billings 0
Singles
No. 1 Matey Pampulov, HPU def. Francisco Sanchez,
MSUB 6-0, 6-3
No. 2 Mikael Maatta, HPU def. Jose Garcia, MSUB
6-0, 6-1
No. 3 Gabor Jaross, HPU def. Sergio Diaz, MSUB
6-1, 6-3
No. 4 Moritz Szelski, HPU def. Kellen Malone, MSUB
6-2, 6-0
No. 5 Christian Lindberg, HPU def. Ryan Smith,
MSUB 6-0, 6-0
No. 6 Phillip Eiseler def. Andres Calabro, MSUB
7-6(6), 6-4
Doubles
No. 1 Pampulov/Sasa Pirc HPU vs. Smith/Calabro,
MSUB DNP
No. 2 Maatta/Jaross, HPU def. Sanchez/Sean
O'Daniel, MSUB 8-4
No. 3 Szelski/Lindberg, HPU def. Diaz/Garcia, MSUB
8-4
Women: #1 BYU-Hawaii 9, #4
MSU Billings 0
Singles
No. 1 Jing Jing Liu, BYUH def. Brianne Roney, MSUB
6-0, 6-0
No. 2 Anna Lewis, BYUH def. Amanda Schlosser, MSUB
6-0, 6-1
No. 3 Judy Weng, BYUH def. Becky Fry, MSUB 6-0,
6-0
No. 4 Amy Sun, BYUH def. Lee Sowada, MSUB 6-0, 6-0
No. 5 Gurianna Korinihona, BYUH def. Jenni Howe,
MSUB 6-0, 6-1
No. 6 Trisha Piercy, BYUH def. Margot
Merrill-Johnson, MSUB 6-0, 6-1
Doubles
No. 1 Weng/Sun, BYUH def. Schlosser/Howe, MSUB 8-1
No. 2 Lewis/Piercy, BYUH def. Roney/Sowada, MSUB
8-0
No. 3 Hana Chovanova/Crystal Schwenke, BYUH def.
Merrill-Johnson/Tia Smith, MSUB 8-2 |
