May 14, 2005

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WACO, Texas - Defending national champion and No. 1 seed Baylor defeated 29th-ranked Texas 4-1 Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament at the Baylor Tennis Center. With the win, top-ranked Baylor advances to the NCAA round of 16 to be played May 21 in College Station, Texas.

The top-ranked Bears improved to 30-0 on the season with their school-record 54th consecutive victory dating to Feb., 2004. Baylor, which also won its 59th straight home match, advanced to the Sweet 16 for the fourth straight year with its sixth straight win over the Longhorns and will meet national tournament host Texas A&M on May 21 at the Aggies' George P. Mitchell Center.

Sophomore Matija Zgaga earned Baylor's first point with a 6-2, 6-1 decision over Texas' Luis Diaz Barriga at court five. Minutes later, the Bears took a 2-1 lead when junior Greg Shearer bested Hubert Chodkeiwicz 6-1, 6-3 at No. 6.

Baylor then closed out the Longhorns with victories from its two seniors, No. 2-ranked Benedikt Dorsch and No. 18 Benjamin Becker. Dorsch increased BU's lead to 3-1 when he beat No. 48 Callum Beale, 6-2, 6-3 on court one, and seconds later Becker finished off No. 66 Travis Helgeson, 6-2, 6-3 on court two to give the Bears a 4-1 match win.

The Longhorns took the early lead by earning the doubles point when Beale and Helgeson defeated Baylor's second-ranked team of Dorsch and Zgaga in a 7-2 tiebreak on court one. It marked just the seventh time this season that the Bears did not win the doubles point, but Baylor has come back to win in all seven matches.

Texas' Chodkiewicz and Roger Gubser won the first doubles match, defeating Baylor's Lars Poerschke and Michal Kokta 8-5. The loss snapped an 11-match winning streak for Poerschke and Kokta. The Bears won at court three to momentarily knot the score when Becker and Jon Reckewey topped Luis Diaz Barriga and Garrett Snyder of Texas 8-6. For Becker, it marked his 100th career doubles victory, a new school record.

Texas, which played in its 14th consecutive NCAA tournament, ended its season with a 13-10 record.

#1 Baylor 4, #29 Texas 1
Doubles
1. #60 Beale/Helgeson, UT def. #2 Dorsch/Zgaga, BU 9-8(2)
2. Chodkiewicz/Gubser, UT def. #54 Poerschke/Kokta, BU 8-5
3. Becker/Reckewey, BU def. Barriga/Snyder, UT 8-6
Singles
1. #2 Benedikt Dorsch, BU def. #48 Callum Beale, UT 6-2, 6-4
2. #18 Benjamin Becker, BU def. #66Travis Helgeson, UT 6-2, 6-3
3. #50 Lars Poerschke, BU vs. #88 Roger Gubser, UT dnf
4. #106 Michal Kokta, BU vs. Milan Mihailovic, UT dnf
5. Matija Zgaga, BU def. Luis Diaz Barriga, UT 6-2, 6-1
6. Greg Shearer, BU def. Hubert Chodkeiwicz, UT 6-1, 6-3