Feb. 27, 2008
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IRVING, Texas - The UAB men's tennis team won for the third day in a row at the C-USA Shootout Sunday at the Conference USA Shootout, defeating host Southern Mississippi, 5-2, to give head coach Derek Tarr his 300th career victory.
The Blazers (4-1) won the doubles point and then captured singles matches at No. 2, 3, 5 and 6 to cap off their perfect weekend against their C-USA foes. UAB beat East Carolina Friday and UCF Saturday before Sunday's win over the Golden Eagles.
MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK (2/26)
DAN CORNEI - UAB
Fr., Burlington, Ontario Canada (Robert Bateman)
Cornei won all three of his singles matches at the No. 3 position to help UAB sweep three C-USA opponents over the weekend at Hattiesburg, Miss. The freshman from Canada who didn't see his first collegiate action until earlier this month, also won two of three doubles matches against league foes East Carolina, Southern Miss and UCF. Cornei improved his spring dual match record in singles to 5-0, while UAB improved its dual match record to 4-1 overall. Cornei's efforts also helped UAB head coach Derek Tarr pick up his 300th career victory against Southern Miss on Sunday. The Blazers' three wins at the C-USA Shootout represented the first time that the team have been able to achieve that feat. The weekly honor is the first of Cornei's career.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Conference USA will name a male and female tennis Athlete of the Week throughout the regular season. The weekly accolades are selected by the media relations department and announced every Tuesday throughout the season.
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
J22 - Bruno Rosa, Rice
J29 - Amrit Narasimhan, Memphis
F5 - Christoph Müller, Rice
F12 - Bruno Rosa, Rice
F19 - Will Gray, Tulsa
F26 - Dan Cornei, UAB
OTHER NOTABLE C-USA TENNIS PERFORMANCES
MICHAEL GAERTHOEFFNER - Memphis
Fr., Rheine, Germany
Gaerthoeffner won his fifth straight match and pushed his overall record to 15-5, including 7-2 in dual match play last weekend against two ranked foes.
CHRISTOPH MÜLLER - Rice
Sr., Richmond, Texas
Muller nearly led No. 24 Rice to an upset of No. 5 Texas with his impressive 7-6 (7), 3-6, 1-0 (6) win over No. 18 Kellen Damico at the No. 2 spot.
ARNAU BRUGUES - Tulsa
Jr., Barcelona, Spain
No. 38 Brugues defeated ULL's Arien Domoney at the No. 1 spot for TU and is 7-4 in singles overall. He and teammate Ricardo Soriano are ranked No. 39 and 10-1 in dual match doubles and 14-2 overall.
DAMAGOJ ANIC - Southern Miss
Jr., Zagreb Croatia
Anic recorded three singles wins at the C-USA Shootout at the No. 1 spot and one doubles match victory.
TAREK BEN SOLTANE - UCF
Jr., Tunis, Tunisia
Ben Soltane improved to 4-0 on the season after grabbing three wins at the C-USA Shootout. He also has a ranked win this spring.
WEEKLY RELEASE
The Conference USA media relations staff will produce a weekly release each Tuesday throughout the season, including Athlete of the Week selections and updated standings. Complete league statistics and results will be updated daily throughout the season on the Conference website.
ON THE WEB
For the latest Conference USA tennis match recaps, scores, standings, stats and weekly notebooks please log on to the league's official website: www.ConferenceUSA.com
