Men's Tennis Drops 5-2 Decision at ECU
February 22, 2009 | Men's Tennis
The Bulldogs ended their three-match road skid with a 5-2 loss to East Carolina Saturday afternoon at the ECU Tennis Complex. The Bulldogs fall to 1-9 on the year, while ECU advances to 6-1.
Gardner-Webb had a hard time against ECU in the doubles portion on Saturday, dropping all three matches to go down 1-0 to the Pirates.
GWU's Evgeny Slesarev managed to win his ninth match of the 2009 dual season by defeating ECU's Jaroslay Horvath (6-2, 7-5) at the first position. He is now 9-1 in the spring season.
Sophomore Carlos Quijano also won his singles match (6-2, 4-6, 1-0) at the No. 4 position against the Pirates. The win was Quijano's first at the fourth position this season.
Junior Rafael Altmayer came close to a win at the three position, but fell 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 to ECU's Denis Ermilov.
RESULTS
EAST
CAROLINA 5, GARDNER-WEBB 2
Singles Play
No. 1 - Evgeny Slesarev (GWU) def. Jaroslav
Horvath (ECU); 6-2, 7-5
No. 2 - Stephen
Whitwell (ECU) def. Andrew Veeder (GWU); 6-3, 6-2
No. 3 - Denis
Ermilov (ECU) def. Rafael Altmayer (GWU); 4-6, 6-4, 1-0
(7)
No. 4 - Carlos Quijano (GWU) def. Henrik
Skalmerud (ECU); 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (6)
No. 5 - Aleksey
Kochetov (ECU) def. Jamie Lawlor (GWU); 6-2, 6-2
No. 6 - Bryan
Oakley (ECU) def. Ryan Bernthal (GWU); 6-3, 6-0
Doubles Play
No. 1 - Ermilov/Horvath (ECU) def. Altmayer/Slesarev (GWU); 8-5
No. 2 - Kochetov/Skalmerud (ECU) def. Bernthal/Lawlor (GWU);
8-3
No. 3 - Oakley/Whitwell (ECU) def. Quijano/Veeder (GWU); 8-1
Team Records: Gardner-Webb 1-9, East Carolina
6-1
