UCR is USD's chum before their own Saturday feast
Men's tennis take two Saturday matches after falling to San Diego
Walter Tong and Chenthen Thambiayah
Issue date: 2/2/10 Section: Sports
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The UCR Highlanders Men's Tennis team steamrolled the RCC Tigers en route to a 7-0 victory at home.
From the first serve on in the doubles matches, it was evident that the Tigers were just overmatched. The Highlanders took the lead and ran away with it - the teams of Quoc Doan and Felix Macherez, Austin Andres and John Park, Mike Conroy andFreddy Quintos won their matches 8-0, 8-2 and 8-2 respectively.
John "JP" Park bounced back from his loss against Vanguard earlier in the day to defeat Sam Pirani 6-2, 6-0. Park opened up a 3-0 lead in a dominating fashion and looked to run away with the match. However, Pirani clawed back into the match with back-to-back games before fading away and losing the next 8 straight games.
Freddy Quintos only lost two games the whole match, both in doubles, going 6-0, 6-0 against opponent Spencer Melendez.
"That was our most inspirational performance for the second match," said Highlander head coach York Strother.
Next week the Highlanders go on the road take on Southern Mississippi and nationally ranked UNLV.
Highlanders 5 - Lions 2
Vanguard University of Southern California played the UCR men's tennis team at the SRC tennis complex this past Saturday. The matchup was the first home game for Riverside, looking to rebound after a very debilitating defeat at the hands of the University of San Diego.
Last year, Vanguard University defeated UCR. This year, the same could not be said.
Doubles play was a sour point for the team. The doubles pairing of freshman Freddy Quintos and sophomore Michael Conroy were the only ones able to succeed in doubles play.
"The doubles definitely did not go as planned. We needed to play smarter, rather than harder. The team was playing hard but just made some crucial mistakes at important moments," Strother said.
Luckily, the Highlanders were able to dominate Vanguard in singles play. All but one match was won in singles play for the Highlanders. The sole loss was number one overall John Park. Even with the loss, Park played hard until the very end of the 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.
The Highlanders won every other singles match, each only going to two sets. Vanguard itself featured an almost all-International squad, with many players from Europe. These regions also included Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and a few players also from Brazil.
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