Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Southern Illinois University
Marquette Invitational
Salukis Claim Three Titles At Marquette Invitational
10/01/2001 | 12:00:00 | Men's Tennis
Sept. 30, 2001
Milwaukee, Wis. - Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Alon Savidor, Julian Angel Botero and Peter Bong and Lukasz Soswa claimed three titles at the Marquette Invitational on September 28-30 at Marquette University.
Savidor won the Flight 2 singles titles, Botero won the Flight 4 singles title and Bong and Soswa won the Flight 2 doubles title.
"I was really pleased. Alon played great. To win at the #2 singles position is big. We played well against some teams that beat us last year," said Missy Jeffrey, Salukis head coach. "Soswa is now 10-1 in doubles play after winning another doubles title. Julian has been playing well the last two tournaments reaching the finals at the East Tennessee State Tournament and winning last weekend at the Marquette Invitational. It was a great weekend."
Savidor had a bye in round one before winning three matches to claim the title. He beat Sean Moran of Western Illinois 6-1, 6-4, Chad Camper of Wright State 6-3, 7-6 (10-5) and Justin Holsen of host Marquette University 6-4, 6-3 in the final.
Botero won four straight Flight 4 singles matches to win his first title as a Saluki. He beat Ken Howery of Illinois-Chicago 6-4, 6-4, Chris Hill of Valparaiso 6-2, 7-6, Scott Hayden of Wright State 7-6, 1-6, 10-7 and Mark Muskievicz of Bradley 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 in the final.
In doubles play, Bong and Soswa captured the Flight 2 doubles title by winning three matches. The SIU duo defeated Chris Hill & Tyler Neemann of Valparaiso 8-2, Leslie Moore & Anand Mukherjee of Chicago State 8-5 and Lukasz Pluta & Blazej Tondel of Eastern Illinois 8-6 in the final.
In other matches, Peter Bong advanced to the consolation final of Flight 1 singles play before losing to Nick Bodmer of Illinois-Chicago 9-8. Bong lost to Robert Shamelikian of Wisconsin-Green Bay 6-2, 6-4 and beat Brett Martin of Bradley 8-1 to reach the consolation final.
Richard Booth won his Flight 3 singles opener 7-5, 6-1 over Leslie Moore of Chicago State before being knocked out by Joey Turnet of Wright State 6-2, 3-6, 10-7.
Soswa split two matches in Flight 5 singles play beating Ben Dunham-Freer of Valparaiso 6-2, 6-1 before falling to Creighton Macy of Marquette 6-0, 6-0.
In Flight 6 singles play Brian Blake lost to Mizra Mahic of Valparaiso 6-4, 6-0, beat Sean Masoncup of Western Illinois and fell to Scott Roebuck of Bradley in the consolation semifinal.
The Salukis will next compete at the Louisville University Invitational on October 5-7 in Louisville, Kentucky.
