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Men's Tennis Loses Fourth Straight Conference Match
04/19/2003 | 12:00:00 | Men's Tennis
April 19, 2003
Carbondale, Ill. - The men's tennis team's woes continued as it fell to Illinois State Saturday, 0-7, in its fourth straight conference loss this season. SIU falls to 4-7 overall, 1-6 MVC.
The Redbirds won all singles matches in straight sets and swept the doubles point, improving their record to 13-8 overall, 7-1 in the MVC. Freshman Bojan Ilievski gave Marek Blaskovic a tough match at the No. 4 spot, nearly winning the first set as he fell, 7-6, 6-4.
SIU will finish up the regular season with a trip to Indiana State tomorrow (Sunday, 10am) in Terre Haute, Indiana. Results can be found at www.siusalukis.com.
Illinois State 7, Southern Illinois 0
Doubles:
No. 1 - Uskokovic/Pettinari (ISU) def. Ilievski/Soswa (SIU) 8-3
No. 2 - Smit/Foley (ISU) def. Remigio/Bong (SIU) 8-4
No. 3 - Blaskovic/Cappuccitti (ISU) def. Savidor/Botero (SIU) 8-3
Singles:
No. 1 - Cappuccitti (ISU) def. Peter Bong (SIU) 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 - Jason Smit (ISU) def. Alon Savidor (SIU) 6-1, 6-0
No. 3 - Uskokovic (ISU) def. Julian Angel Botero (SIU) 6-2, 6-2
No. 4 - Marek Blaskovic (ISU) def. Bojan Ilievski (SIU) 7-6. 6-4
No. 5 - Pettinari (ISU) def. Lukasz Soswa (SIU) 6-0, 6-2
No. 6 - Ciaran Foley (ISU) def. Tomas Gonzalez (SIU) 6-1, 6-0
