| March 31, 2005
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No. 27 Texas Scores 6-1 Win Over UTSA In Men's Tennis Box Score
AUSTIN, Texas – With only Jonas Hoglund breaking through at No. 4 singles, the UTSA Roadrunners dropped a 6-1 decision to the 27th-ranked Texas Longhorns in men's tennis action on Wednesday evening at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center.
Texas (8-3) opened the match with a win at No. 2 doubles where sophomore Hubert Chodkiewicz and junior Roger Gubser defeated Hetori Chaves and Anthony Portois of UTSA, 8-6. The doubles point was then clinched by the 53rd-ranked duo of junior Callum Beale and freshman Travis Helgeson who posted a 9-7 mark over Ricardo Almeida and Dennis Andrade at the top of the lineup. At the third spot, freshman Luis Diaz Barriga and sophomore Garrett Snyder battled Jonas Hoglund and Adam Becker for the 9-7 win and the doubles sweep.
In singles action, Snyder was first off the court at the sixth spot after his opponent, Nate Avila, retired due to injury in the second set. Chodkiewicz followed with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Chaves at No. 5, increasing the Longhorns’ advantage to 3-0. The loss by Chaves was only his second of the spring, dropping him to 12-2 overall.
Texas continued strong in singles as it collected three more wins at the top three positions. Beale, ranked 25th nationally, defeated Andrade 6-2, 6-4 at No. 1 and Gubser, ranked 65th nationally, posted a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Almeida at No. 3. Helgeson scored the final point for Texas as he defeated Portois with identical 6-3, 6-3 scores at the second spot.
UTSA avoided the singles sweep with a win at the fourth position where freshman Milan Mihailovic dropped a tough 6-0, 2-6, 6-3 decision to Hoglund.
The Roadrunners (11-4) will return to action on Friday, April 1 when they host the 28th ranked Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders in a Southland Conference match at 2 p.m. at the UTSA Tennis Center.
No. 27 Texas 6, UTSA 1
Singles (Order of finish: 6, 5, 1*, 3, 2, 4)
1. Callum Beale (UT) def. Dennis Andrade (UTSA) 6-2, 6-4
2. Travis Helgeson (UT) def. Anthony Portois (UTSA) 6-3, 6-3
3. Roger Gubser (UT) def. Ricardo Almeida (UTSA) 6-4, 6-4
4. Jonas Hoglund (UTSA) def. Milan Mihailovic (UT) 6-0, 2-6, 6-3
5. Hubert Chodkiewicz (UT) def. Hetori Chaves (UTSA) 6-3, 6-1
6. Garrett Snyder (UT) def. Nate Avila (UTSA) 6-1, 3-0, ret.
Doubles (Order of finish: 2, 1*, 3)
1. Beale/Helgeson (UT) def. Almeida/Andrade (UTSA) 9-7
2. Chodkiewicz/Gubser (UT) def. Chaves/Portois (UTSA) 8-6
3. Luis Diaz Barriga/Snyder (UT) def. Adam Becker/Hoglund (UTSA) 9-7
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