University of Connecticut Athletics
Men's Tennis Loses 7-0 at Amherst
3/29/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
AMHERST, Mass. (March 29) -- Joey Michaels and Christian Malerba teamed up to win a doubles match, highlighting a 7-0 loss for the University of Connecticut men's tennis team on Wednesday afternoon at Amherst College, the 14th-ranked team in Division III. The Huskies dip to 3-9 on the spring with the loss while the Lord Jeffs up their mark to 7-2.
Amherst captured the doubles point but it was not a clean sweep as Michaels and Malerba claimed an 8-4 victory at the No. 3 position over Jon Godsall and Geoff Schwartz. Singles play saw the Lord Jeffs take all six matches, five of them in straight sets. The tightest match was at No. 5 where Ben Scheuler and Tal Avrahami split 6-3 sets before Avrahami won a super-tiebreaker, 10-7.
The Huskies return to action on Saturday when they play host to Monmouth at 1:00 p.m.
Amherst 7, Connecticut 0
Singles No. 1 Lennart Lepner (A) def. Sho Sato (C), 6-3, 6-0 No. 2 Josh Rilla (A) def. Craig Helstowski (C), 6-2, 6-0
No. 3 Michael Mintz (A) def. Joey Michaels (C), 6-3, 6-1 No. 4 Jon Godsall (A) def. Christian Malerba (C), 6-3, 6-3 No. 5 Tal Avrahami (A) def. Ben Scheuler (C), 3-6, 6-3, 10-7 No. 6 Jeffrey Wan (A) def. Jeff Klar (C), 6-2, 6-0 Doubles: No. 1 Lepner/Rilla (A) def. Sato/Scheuler (C), 8-5 No. 2 Avrahami/Wan (A) def. Carvahlo/Joel Gamoran (C), 8-5 No. 3 Michaels/Malerba (C) def. Godsall/Geoff Schwartz (A), 8-4
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