MIAMI SHORES, Fla. (March 24, 2007) ' The No.
19 Rollins men's tennis team suffered an 8-1 loss against
conference foe Barry University (10-1, 4-1 SSC) on Saturday morning
at the Buccaneer Tennis Center in a fight to finish before the
afternoon rain set in.
'All three of Rollins' doubles teams were unsuccessful in their
matches against some of the toughest conference competition. At
number one, Brian Compton and Jonathan Gomez were defeated by Roman
Werschel and Andrew Sharnov in a tight match, 8-5, while Gustavo
Carvalho and Pablo Seijo fell to Patrick Rittenauer and Victor
Rodriguez in a struggle at the number two position, 8-4. Manuel
Lauter and Dirk Benninghaus were victorious at the number three
position in their win against Adrian Tan and Michael Schwartz
8-4.
'
In singles actions, the Bucs easily took the number one and six
positions with Rittenauer defeating Compton and Rodriguez defeating
Albin Hubscher respectively, with both matches having identical
sets of 6-1, 6-1. At number two slot, Tan was overwhelmed by
Werschel 6-, 6-1. Positions three and four both went into three set
matches as Sharnov defended the number three spot against Gomez,
6-3, 4-6, 10-8 and Lauter came back to defeat No. 4 Carvalho 2-6,
7-6, 10-4. Seijo secured the only Rollins win by taking out
Benninghaus 7-6, 6-4 in the fifth position.
The Tars (12-6, 1-1) will be back in action on Thursday, March
29 when they face the Lynn University Fighting Knights (10-2,
2-1).
