No. 65 ETSU Tennis Overpowers Cougars, 4-3 - CofCSports.com--Official Web site of College of Charleston Athletics

Saturday, April 3

Johnson City, TN

11am

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East Tennessee State

No. 65 ETSU Tennis Overpowers Cougars, 4-3 - CofCSports.com--Official Web site of College of Charleston Athletics

4/3/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

#articleRelated { display: none !important; } No. 65 East Tennessee State men's tennis team battled the College of Charleston to a 4-3 victory on Saturday afternoon. The Buccaneers improve to 10-5 overall, 3-0 in the conference while the Cougars drop to 11-7, 6-2.

The last match between the two teams was the Southern Conference tournament finals in which the Cougars won 4-1.

However, today favored the Bucs, who started by garnering the doubles point. ETSU's Fernando Fiuri (Villa Maria, Argentina) and Felix Insaurralde's (Asunci?n, Paraguay) finished first in doubles action defeating Bastian Moldhenke and Liran Kling 8-5 in the No. 3 slot. Diego Iglesias (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and Mois?©s Serrano (Bucaramanga, Columbia) then secured the point with a 9-8 victory at No. 2 over the Cougar's Or Dekel and Philipp Koller. The struggle at the No. 1 slot continued but in the end, Oscar Posada (Valencia, Venezuela) and Alejandro Salazar (Arequipa, Peru) were beat by Timo Siebert and Artie Peller in a 9-7 decision.

In singles action the Bucs improved their team score to 3-0 with wins from Serrano at No. 5 (6-1, 6-0) and Fiuri at No. 4 (6-4, 6-4).

The Cougars then won their first point at the No. 1 slot with Dekel's 6-4, 6-3 win over Salazar.

Iglesias then clinched the game-winning point for the Bucs at the No. 3 slot in a 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 match against Bastian Moldhenke.

With the match decided, play still continued in the No. 2 and No. 6 positions where the Cougars garnered two more points for the 4-3 final.

The Buccaneers continue SoCon action tomorrow as they host The Citadel tomorrow, April 4 at the ETSU tennis courts.