Colorado University Athletics
Men's Tennis Falls to No. 50 South Alabama, 5-2
BOISE, Idaho ? The University of Colorado men’s tennis team dropped their second match in as many days falling to No. 50 South Alabama, 5-2, Saturday afternoon in a non-conference match hosted by Boise State University.
South Alabama improves to 14-4, while the Buffaloes fall to 7-9. CU will round out the third day of the competition at Boise State taking on Idaho (3-8) Sunday morning.
“Chad (Tsuda) and Marcos (Digliodo) played great and stepped up for us today,” said CU head coach Sam Winterbotham. “Marek (Dvorak) lost a close one. It’s a learning process right now with a lot of great lessons helping us move forward this season.”
Trailing 1-0 after the doubles portion CU only managed two of the next six singles slots. Digliodo won his fifth consecutive match rallying in three-sets (3-6, 6-3, 7-5), while Tsuda won his seventh of his last eight matches taking an easy 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 5.
On the season, Digliodo won his team-best 19th match of the season (9th spring) and Tsuda his 15th overall. Tsuda has won a team-high 10 spring dual matches for CU.
No. 50 South Alabama 5, No. 45 Colorado 2
USA (14-4), CU (7-9)
Appleton Tennis Center
April 2, Boise, Idaho
Doubles
1) Jacobs/Doskareyev (USA) def. Digliodo/Tsuda 8-3
2) Bjork/Bundalo (CU) def. Kepke/Santo 8-6
3) Huffman/Babej (USA) def. Dvorak/Yemm 8-6
Singles
1) Fero Babej (USA) def. Marko Bundalo 6-3, 6-2
2) Dias Doskarayev (USA) def. Peter Bjork 5-7, 4-3 default
3) Marcos Digliodo (CU) def. Clinton Jacobs 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
4) David Kepka (USA) def. Marek Dvorak 6-2, 7-6
5) Chad Tsuda (CU) def. Tiago Espisito Santo 6-1, 6-1
6) Mark Gellard (USA) def. Charlie Yemm 6-1, 7-5