WINTER PARK, Fla. (March 17, 2006) ' Rollins dropped the top
doubles match, but won the next two and cruised in singles play as
the Tars defeated Florida Tech 7-2 in a Sunshine State Conference
match on Saturday. The tenth ranked Tars improve to 7-6, 1-1 SSC on
the year while Tech falls to 3-13, 0-5 SSC.
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nation's 17 th ranked doubles team of Keith Kessler and Cliff Giel
downed Rollins' Carlos Custodio and Brian Compton 8-6 for a Florida
Tech point in the No. 1 doubles match. Rollins won other two
doubles positions with Adrian Tan and Michael Schwartz downing
Diego Quiros and David Fowler 8-4 in the No. 2 position and
Jonathan Gomez and David Tafur taking Christian Smith and Jeremy
Casperson 8-2 in the No. 3 match.
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Giel, the 27 th ranked singles player in the nation, downed Gomez
6-4, 6-1 in the No. 2 match, but that would be all the Panthers
would get as Rollins rolled to straight set wins in the six
remaining matches. Nineteenth ranked Custodio took Kessler 6-1, 6-2
in the No. 1 slot with Tan winning this third straight match, 6-0,
6-1 over Nick Bonilla. Compton won the No. 4 match for Rollins over
Quiros 6-4, 6-1 with 48 th ranked Tafur winning 6-1, 6-1 over Smith
in the No. 5 position. Albin Hubscher improved to 7-2 on the year
with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Fowler in the No. 6 singles match.
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Rollins will be right back at it on Sunday, March 19, as they will
host second ranked Ouachita Baptist at 1 p.m. in Winter Park.
