EDINBURG, Texas – The Oral Roberts University men's tennis team dropped a non-conference match against University of Texas-Pan American, 6-1, Saturday at the Orville Cox Tennis Center.

The Golden Eagles dropped to 3-6 on the year while UTPA improved to 7-9.

The Broncs led things off with doubles' play where they took all three matches from ORU to collect the point.

In singles play, Alex Kotsuik kept up his hot play with a win at No. 1 singles over Ivan Avila, 7-5, 6-1. However, that was the only win the Golden Eagles would get as UTPA defeated ORU in the other five matches.

Denis Troyke came the closes to stealing a win against the Broncs with a 6-4, 7-6 (7) setback against UTPA's Nirvick Mohinta at No. 3.

Singles
1) Alex Kotsuik (ORU) def. Ivan Avila (UTPA), 7-5, 6-1
2) Aswhin Vigayaragavan (UTPA) def. Alex Dargel (ORU), 6-4, 6-2
3) Nirvick Mohinta (UTPA) def. Denis Troyke (ORU), 6-4, 7-6 (7)
4) Andrew Irving (UTPA) def. Clemens Geercken (ORU), 6-2, 6-2
5) Brett Bernstein (UTPA) def. Dario Beslic (ORU), 6-4, 6-4
6) Marcus Dornuaf (UTPA) def. Denis Balzonic (ORU), 6-4, 6-4

Doubles
1) Avila/Mohinta (UTPA) def. Kotsuik/Dargel (ORU), 8-4
2) Bernstein/Vijayaragavan (UTPA) def. Geercken/Troyke (ORU), 8-4
3) Dornauf/Irving (UTPA) def. Bezlic/Balzonic (ORU), 8-2

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