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Tribe Wraps Up Competition at USF Invite
W&M closed the three-day event with three singles and three doubles wins on Sunday.
01/21/07 6:30PM
Tampa, Fla. - The William and Mary men痴 tennis team wrapped up competition at the USF Invitational, winning three singles matches and three doubles contests during the third and final day of the event. Senior Colin O達rien and junior Alex Cojanu led the way for the College winning both their singles and doubles matches.
Cojanu and O達rien both won in Flight A singles. Cojanu defeated Marc Jaeger of South Florida, 6-4, 7-6 (3), to improve to 9-4 on the year. O達rien claimed a three-set victory over South Florida痴 Mahmoud Hamad to improve to 6-4 overall. After claiming the first set 7-5, O達rien rebounded from dropping the second, 6-2, to win the decisive third set, 6-1. Both Tribe players went 2-1 in the round-robin format at the Invite.
The pair continued to roll in doubles play. Cojanu and O達rien rolled past Jaeger and Henning Hip of South Florida, 8-1, improving to 15-4 on the year. The No. 30 nationally ranked pair was a perfect 3-0 at the USF Invitational. The College notched a pair of victories in Flight B doubles. The sophomore duo of Dominic Pagon and Marwan Ramadan defeated USF痴 Daudt and Gattiker, 8-2. The pair improved to 2-1 on the year. Junior Kavi Sud and freshman Richard Wardell made it a clean sweep of matches in Flight B doubles. The pair improved to 2-0 on the year with a dominating 8-0 win over Embree and Sousa of South Florida.
Sophomore Alex Zuck won his third straight match at the USF Invitational. The Toms River, N.J., native defeated Keith Embree in Flight C singles, 6-2, 6-1. The victory evened his season mark at 5-5.
W&M will open the dual match season at home against No. 8 Virginia on Wednesday, Jan. 24. The match is slated for 4:30 p.m. at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center.
W&M Results from the USF Invitational
Singles
Flight A
Alex Cojanu (W&M) def. Marc Jaeger (USF) 6-3, 7-6 (3)
Colin O達rien (W&M) def. Mahmoud Hamad (USF) 7-5, 2-6, 6-1
Flight B
Henning Hipp (USF) def. Marwan Ramadan (W&M) 0-6, 6-2, 7-5
Thomas Estrada (USF) def. Dominic Pagon (W&M) 6-2, 6-4
Flight C
Mark Gattiker (USF) def. Richard Wardell (W&M) 6-4, 6-4
Alex Zuck (W&M) def. Keith Embree (USF) 6-2, 6-1
Doubles
Flight A
Cojanu/O達rien (W&M) def. Hipp/Jaeger (USF) 8-1
Hamed/Estrada (USF) def. Zuck/Juneau (W&M) 9-7
Flight B
Pagon/Ramadan (W&M) def. Daudt/Gattiker (USF) 8-2
Sud/Wardell (W&M) def. Embree/Sousa (USF) 8-0
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