College of Charleston
Georgia State
Cougars Fall Short Of Georgia State, 4-3
2/27/2011 1:07:00 AM | Men's Tennis
ATLANTA - The College of Charleston men's tennis team fell short of Georgia State, 4-3, in a non-conference dual match held Saturday afternoon at Piedmont Park.
It ended a two-match win streak for the Cougars (3-2), who claimed the doubles point behind a pair of 8-4 victories by the top doubles combination of senior Lukas Koncilia (Tyrol, Austria) and sophomore Kyle Parker (Richmond, Va.) and the No. 2 doubles tandem of senior Mickael Boyer (Meudon, France) and junior Mickael Trintignac for a 1-0 advantage.
Trintignac quickly defeated Georgia State's Thomas Cook in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 2 singles, but the Panthers (13-3) would equalize the match at two-all with two wins at the No. 3 and No. 6 lines.
Koncilia, the defending Southern Conference Player of the Year, won a second-set tiebreaker to get past Gabe Townes, 6-1, 7-6 (1), at the top of the order to put the Cougars up 3-2. GSU would force three sets in the last two matches standing and prevailed as Juan Pablo Gutierrez clinched the victory with a 5-7, 7-6 (0), 6-2, win over CofC junior Tom Delme (Hamoir, Belgium).
"It was a good effort today," CofC head coach Jay Bruner said. "We battled on every court and we have improved a lot since our last match (at UNC Charlotte and Winston-Salem State). Both of our top doubles teams played awesome and we got off to a good start. We were up for most of the match, but the last two matches went into three sets and finished 20 minutes of each other. We will learn from this loss and get back to work in preparation for our road trip to Los Angeles next weekend."
The Cougars will head to the West Coast for a Sunday, March 6, dual match at Loyola Marymount and a Monday, March 7, meeting with Gonzaga in Los Angeles. First serve for both non-conference matches is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. (PT).
GEORGIA STATE 4, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 3
Feb. 26, 2011
Piedmont Park
at Atlanta, Ga.
SINGLES
No. 1 - Lukas Koncilia (CofC) def. Gabe Townes (GSU), 6-1, 7-6 (1).
No. 2 - Mickael Trintignac (CofC) def. Thomas Cook (GSU), 6-2, 6-2.
No. 3 - Breon Badger (GSU) def. Kyle Parker (CofC), 6-1, 6-4.
No. 4 - Juan Pablo Gutierrez (GSU) def. Tom Delme (CofC), 5-7, 7-6 (0), 6-2.
No. 5 - Vincent Verpeaux (GSU) def. Mickael Boyer (CofC), 6-2, 5-7, 6-3.
No. 6 - Lucas Santana (GSU) def. Bryan Roberts (CofC), 6-3, 6-0.
DOUBLES
No. 1 - Koncilia-Parker (CofC) def. Badger-Townes (GSU), 8-4.
No. 2 - Boyer-Trintignac (CofC) def. Cook-Verpeaux (GSU), 8-4.
No. 3 - Gutierrez-Santana (GSU) def. Delme-Stephen Hardy (CofC), 8-1.
ORDER OF FINISH
Doubles: 3, 1, 2*
Singles: 2, 3, 6, 1, 5, 4*
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