Boxers End Southern California Trip With Pair Of Victories

Boxers End Southern California Trip With Pair Of Victories

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Pacific/Chapman Box Score | Pacific/Occidental Box Score

LOS ANGELES – A doubleheader day of tennis ended positively for Pacific Thursday as the Pacific men's tennis team closed their southern California trip with victories over Chapman and Occidental.
 
In the day's regular scheduled match, the Boxers received a pair of doubles victories and a trio of three set victories to score a 5-4 win over Chapman.  In the nightcap, moved from Wednesday due to rain, a sweep of the doubles gave the Boxers the momentum they needed for a 6-3 victory.
 
"I am very proud of our guys today," said Pacific Head Coach Brian Jackson.  "They battled very hard and proved they were better team in both matches."
 
With the wins, Pacific finished with a 2-1 record on the trip and improved to 7-3 overall.
 
PACIFIC 5, CHAPMAN 4
Pacific opened the morning with victories at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, which proved critical as the match progressed.  Brennan Faith (Fr., Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Grayson Frazier (Jr., La Canada, Calif.) cruised to an 8-4 win over Charlie Werman and Sam Mitteldorf at No. 2, while Josh Bernstein (Fr., Novato, Calif.) and Reuben Mulhern (Fr., Boise, Idaho) were 8-3 winners over Justin Thompson and Zach Resnick at No. 3.
 
The Boxers' No. 1 tandem of Troy Zuroske (Sr., Richland, Wash.) and Giancarlo Battaglia (Jr., Sherman Oaks, Calif.) were down big in the No. 1 match to Troy Akin and Brett Buford, but managed to roar back and force a tiebreaker.  The Panthers (5-7) swept the tiebreaker, however, to clinch the 9-8 victory.
 
Bernstein and Clark Wininger (Fr., San Francisco, Calif.) came up big in the lower singles flights, with Bernstein surviving a three-set thriller with Mitteldorf at No. 5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Wininger coming back from a set down to beat Hunter Morris, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4, at No. 6.
 
Zuroske clinched the match with another three-set battle, besting Thompson in the No. 1 match, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.  Battaglia went three sets with Werman at No. 2, but was forced to retire with an injury.  With the match in hand, Pacific opted to default the No. 3 and No. 4 matches in order to complete the 90-minute drive to Occidental for the evening match.
 
PACIFIC 6, OCCIDENTAL 3
Despite the rush to the match and Battaglia's injury, the Boxers seemed little phased as they opened the match with a sweep of the doubles. 
 
At No. 1, Zuroske, paired with Lorne Bulling (So., Corvallis, Ore.), scored an 8-5 win over Josh Dancu and Avery Howard.  Faith and Frazier took an 8-1 victory from Eric Kazangian and Kevin Siebs at No. 2.  Bernstein and Mulhern followed that up with an 8-6 win over Trevor Brown and David Cotton at No. 3.
 
The Boxers' legs held as they took three of the six singles matches to secure the team victory.  Faith collected a 6-3, 6-3 win over Kazangian, Bulling was a 6-3, 6-0 winner over Brown at No. 4 and Wininger was a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Howard at No. 5.
 
Occidental's (2-12) Siebs took the No. 1 match over Zuroske, 7-5, 6-4, while Cotton went three sets to knock off Frazier, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, at No. 3.  Jeremy Kirchoff endured a pair of tiebreakers to knock off Alen Suklje (Jr., Beaverton, Ore.) at No. 6, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 10-8.
 
Pacific returns to Northwest Conference play and the home courts next Friday as they host Pacific Lutheran.
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