March 19, 2006

Huntington Beach, Calif. The Pacific men's tennis team moved their record to 1-1 on their Southern California road swing as they defeated No. 75 Dartmouth 6-1 in a neutral site match held in Huntington Beach, Calif on Sunday, Mar. 19. With the win, Pacific runs their record on the season to 11-4.

The Big Green took the doubles point, but the Tigers swept singles action for the second time in their last three matches.

At No. 4 singles, freshman Moritz Starke (Bamberg, Germany) was down 5-3, and 40-15 in the ninth game before rallying to win, not only the ninth game, but the nine games to follow. He closed out Dartmouth's Ari Gayer by the score of 7-5, 6-0.

The Tigers return to action on Saturday, Mar. 25, as they host Sacramento State at Hal Nelson Tennis Courts with a match time of 1pm.

DOUBLES

No. 1 Waslen/McGaughey (DART) def. Vestli/Zdravkovic (PAC) 9-8(2)

No. 2 Sigurdsson/Koniarski (PAC) def. Gayer/Shrestha (DART) 8-4

No. 3 Schechtman/Elder-Bush (DART) def. Starke/Kelly (PAC) 8-6

SINGLES

No. 1 Arnar Sigurdsson (PAC) def. David Waslen (DART) 7-5, 6-2

No. 2 Jorgen Vestli (PAC) def. Jeffrey Schechtman (DART) 6-1, 6-1

No. 3 Tim Koniarski (PAC) def. Raj Shrestha (DART) 6-4, 6-3

No. 4 Moritz Starke (PAC) def. Ari Gayer (DART) 7-5, 6-0

No. 5 Alan Kelly (PAC) def. Steven McGaughey (DART) 6-3, 6-2

No. 6 Austin Kakar (PAC) def. Rashaad Elder-Bush (DART) 6-1, 6-2