Feb. 24, 2008

IRVINE, CALIF. - After an opening doubles win by USF's Falko Huettenberger and Asaf Cohen, No. 63 UC Irvine won the final eight matches to top San Francisco 7-0 Sunday afternoon at the Anteater Tennis Complex.

Huettenberger and Cohen topped Alex Sundling and Khunpol Issara, 8-6 coming off a one hour rain delay to the dual start. UC Irvine's Victor Lamm and Ajay Ahluwalia defeated Thong Tu and Rainer Nachbauer 8-2 in No. 2 doubles and Douglas Taylor and Trevor Dobson won a 9-8 decision over Torin Ching and Mitch Del Rosario in the No. 3 match to secure the doubles point.

Tu and Cohen stretched their No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches against Lamm and Sundling to three sets after losing opening sets by scores of 6-4 and 6-2, taking set two 6-4 and 6-3, respectively. Lamm and Sundling shut the duo out of possible victory with third sets of 7-5 and 6-3.

Issara defeated Rainer Nachbauer, 6-2, 6-4; Dobson topped Einar Hart 6-4, 7-5; Ryan Mayer defeated Huettenberger 7-6, 7-6; and Stephen Stege took care of Greg Hom 6-4, 6-4 to give UC Irvine the sweep.

San Francisco will face Santa Clara in West Coast Conference action Thursday at the Olympic Club. The dual is set to begin at a time to be announced.

No. 63 UC Irvine 7, San Francisco 0

SINGLES

No. 1 Victor Lamm (UCI) def. Thong Tu (USF) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5

No. 2 Alex Sundling (UCI) def. Asaf Cohen (USF) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3

No. 3 Khunpol Issara (UCI) def. Rainer Nachbauer (USF) 6-2, 6-4

No. 4 Trevor Dobson (UCI) def. Einar Hart (USF) 6-4, 7-5

No. 5 Ryan Mayer (UCI) def. Falko Huettenberger (USF) 7-6, 7-6

No. 6 Stephen Stege (UCI) def. Greg Hom (USF) 6-4, 6-4

DOUBLES

No. 1 Huettenberger/Cohen (USF) def. Sundling/Issara (UCI); 8-6

No. 2 Lamm/Ajay Ahluwalia (UCI) def. Tu/Nachbauer (USF); 8-2

No. 3 Douglas Taylor/Dobson (UCI) def. Torin Ching/Mitch Del Rosario (USF); 9-8(7-5)