Saturday, April 08, 2000

Johnson City, Tenn. - The UNC Charlotte 49ers defeated ETSU, 4-3, in men's tennis action at Memorial Center courts. The win improves UNCC to 12-7 while ETSU falls to 11-7.

ETSU opened the match by winning two of the three doubles matches to take the doubles point. In singles, UNCC was able to take advantage of the abscence of ETSU's #1 player, Gustavo Gomez, who was sidelined with a shoulder injury and take four of the six singles matches. Gian-Carl Zeoli defeated Matt Keeter 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in the crucial #6 singles match to give the 49ers the victory. Zeoli held serve at 5-5 in the third set and then broke Keeter to win the set.

ETSU returns to action tomorrow when the Bucs host Appalachian State (10:00) and the Citadel (3:00) in a pair of Southern Conference matches.

Singles
#1, Ola Jonsson (UNCC) def. Marcos Pavlovich (ETSU) 6-4, 6-4
#2, Roberto Fernandez (ETSU) def. Jacob Nordwall (UNCC) 7-6, 4-6, 6-2
#3, Juan Yannuzzi (ETSU) def. Jeff Kuchma (UNCC) 6-2, 6-2
#4, Thomas Oggesen (UNCC) def. Anthony Bugge (ETSU) 6-4, 6-1
#5, Sasha Parc (UNCC) def. Ricardo Nava (ETSU) 6-2, 7-5
#6, Gan-Carl Zeoli (UNCC) def. Matt Keeter (ETSU) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5

Doubles
#1, Jonsson/Kuchma (UNCC) def. Fernandez/Bugge (ETSU) 8-6
#2, Pavlovich/Yannuzzi (ETSU) def. Parc/Zeoli (UNCC) 9-8
#3, Nava/Keeter (ETSU) def. Jonathan McGovern/Oggesen (UNCC) 8-3