University of Connecticut Athletics
Men's Tennis Loses 7-0 at St. John's
4/17/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
JAMAICA, N.Y. (April 17) -- Joey Michaels and Christian Malerba teamed up to win a doubles match but the University of Connecticut men's tennis team lost by a 7-0 score to St. John's on Monday afternoon at The Courts at St. John's. UConn falls to 5-12 on the year with the loss while the Red Storm improves to 11-4.
The Red Storm opened play by taking the doubles point but it was not a clean sweep thanks to Michaels and Malerba coming through in a tiebreaker for an 8-7 win at No. 2. Singles play though saw St. John's win all 12 sets contested. The closest match was at No. 6 where Jeff Klar battled to a 6-3, 7-6 final against Claudio Halim.
The Huskies will wrap up their 2006 season on Tuesday afternoon when they play host to Marist College at 3:30 p.m.
St. John's 7, Connecticut 0
Singles No. 1 Louis Desmarteaux (SJ) def. Sho Sato (UC), 6-2, 6-4
No. 2 David Nylen (SJ) def. Joey Michaels (UC), 6-0, 6-0 No. 3 Tom Green (SJ) def. Craig Helstowski (UC), 6-0, 6-1 No. 4 Aliaksandr Svetlakou (SJ) def. Christian Malerba (UC), 6-2, 6-3 No. 5 Morgan Bauer (SJ) def. Ben Scheuler (UC), 6-2, 6-2 No. 6 Claudio Halim (SJ) def. Jeff Klar (UC), 6-3, 7-6 Doubles: No. 1 Desmarteaux/Svetlakou (SJ) def. Sato/Scheuler (UC), 8-4 No. 2 Michaels/Malerba (UC) def. Green/Nylen (SJ), 8-7 No. 3 Bauer/Halim (SJ) def. Joel Gamoran/Michael Bobitski (UC), 8-3
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