Fort Wayne,
Ind.-The Oral Roberts men's tennis season came to an end Friday
morning, as the #4 seeded Golden Eagles dropped a 4-0 decision to
#1 UMKC in the first round of the Summit Championships hosted by
IPFW.
Igor
Sobolta suffered his only conference loss of the year, falling
6-3, 7-5 to Grant Fleming in #2 singles. Sobolta rounds out the
conference slate with a 6-1 record and finished the year 8-4
overall.
In #1
singles, Mikhail
Trukshanin stumbled to a 6-2, 6-1 loss, finishing the year with
a 4-3 Summit League mark.
Matthew
Prevost found himself on the wrong end of a 6-0, 6-0 setback at
#6 singles, while the matches of Dmitry
Suslov, Dario
Beslic and Matthew
Tansil went unfinished.
Doubles
competition also belonged to UMKC, as Trukshanin and Sobolta fell
8-5 to the Kangaroo duo of Nino Hasandedic and Fleming in the #1
spot.
ORU put up
the toughest fight at #2 doubles, as Suslov and Beslic battled to a
tough 9-8 (8-6) loss to UMKC's Gustavo Guerin and Cameron
Schoenhofer.
Tansil and
Prevost were dismissed 8-0 at #3 doubles.
The ORU men
end the tennis season with a 5-9 overall mark and a 4-3 record in
the Summit League.