University of Connecticut Athletics
Men's Tennis Goes Down at Georgetown, 7-0
3/18/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 18) -- The University of Connecticut men’s tennis team lost all nine of its matches on Saturday afternoon in a 7-0 loss to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. UConn dips to 2-7 on the spring with the loss while the Hoyas up their mark to 1-5.
Georgetown opened play by sweeping the three doubles matches to earn the match's opening point. UConn's closest match was at No. 3 where Joey Michaels and Christian Malerba picked up four games in an 8-4 loss to Andrew Clayton and Kenneth Wong. In singles, the Hoyas won all six matches in straight sets. Freshman Ben Scheuler was UConn's toughest out, falling by a tight 6-4, 7-5 at No. 5 to Bert Baggio.
The Huskies return to action on Tuesday when they play host to Quinnipiac at 2:00 p.m.
Georgetown 7, Connecticut 0
Singles No. 1 Etienne Paris (G) def. Sho Sato (C), 6-1, 6-1 No. 2 Eric Conrad (G) def. Craig Helstowski (C), 6-2, 6-2
No. 3 Theodore Tywang (G) def. Jeff Klar (C), 6-0, 6-0 No. 4 Kevin Killeavy (G) def. Christian Malerba (C), 6-1, 6-1 No. 5 Bert Baggio (G) def. Ben Scheuler (C), 6-4, 7-5 No. 6 Kenneth Wong (G) def. Joey Michaels (C), 6-2, 6-1 Doubles: No. 1 Kevin Walsh/Conrad (G) def. Helstowski/Nate Carvalho (C), 8-1 No. 2 Paris/Tywang (G) def. Sato/Scheuler (C), 8-3 No. 3 Andrew Clayton/Wong (G) def. Malerba/Michaels (C), 8-4
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