March 9, 2008
Final Stats
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The 11th-ranked Baylor men's tennis team lost a road match at No. 10 USC on Sunday afternoon at Marks Stadium. The Bears are now 10-5 on the season while the Trojans' overall record moves 10-3.
The Trojans swept doubles play to gain their first point. At No. 1, Baylor's David Galic and Jordan Rux put up a valiant fight against the Trojans' third-ranked Robert Farah and Kaes Van't Hof before falling in the tiebreaker, 8-7 (5). Baylor's 50th-ranked tandem of Lars Poerschke and Attila Bucko was edged by McNaughton/Sacks, 8-5, and Denes Lukacs and Dominik Mueller fell 8-3 at No. 3.
Mueller, ranked No. 75, posted a 6-2, 6-1 win over USC's #95 Jason McNaughton at No. 5. The victory raised Mueller's dual match record to 13-1 and 22-6 on the season. At the No. 1 spot, Baylor's No. 15 Lars Poerschke, who had been sidelined recently by an ankle injury, trailed USC's #11 Robert Farah and retired due to injury in the second set. Junior Matt Brown, seeing his first action since late October due to injury, lost at No. 3, 6-2, 6-1 USC's Abdullah Magdas put the finishing touches on the victory for the Trojans by defeating Gwen Corches 6-4, 6-3 at No. 6.
Baylor's next competition will be against UCLA in a 1:30 p.m. (PT) match at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Monday (March 10).
#10 USC 4, #11 Baylor 1
DOUBLES
(1) #3 Farah/Van't Hof (USC) def. Galic/Rux (BU) - 8-7 (5)
(2) McNaughton/Sacks (USC) def. #50 Poerschke/Bucko (BU) - 8-5
(3) Piotrowski/Poldma (USC) def. Lukacs/Mueller (BU) - 8-3
USC wins doubles point.
Order of finish: 2, 3, 1
SINGLES
(1) #11 Robert Farah (USC) def. #15 Lars Poerschke (BU) - 6-1, 3-0 ret. inj
(2) #58 Kaes Van't Hof (USC) vs. #10 Denes Lukacs (BU) - DNF
(3) #90 Jaak Poldma (USC) def. Matt Brown (BU) - 6-2, 6-1
(4) #47 Gary Sacks (USC) vs. #102 David Galic (BU) - DNF
(5) #75 Dominik Mueller (BU) def. #95 Jason McNaughton (USC) - 6-2, 6-1
(6) Abdullah Magdas (USC) def. Gwen Corches (BU) - 6-4, 6-3
Order of finish: 1, 5, 3, 6*
