March 10, 2006

Box Score

By Lacole Hook
www.siusalukis.com

CHARLESTON, Ill. - The Southern Illinois men's tennis team got back on the winning track as they defeated Eastern Illinois 6-1.

SIU earned the doubles point winning two of their matches. Feilpe Villasenor and Sergio Sanchez took the victory in the No. 1 spot, while Rodrigo Lama and Andrei Bubnov won in the No. 3 spot.

Tennis coach Dann Nelson was pleased with the doubles play.

"I thought the doubles teams really stepped up today," Nelson said

The Salukis nearly swept the singles action, only losing the No. 3 match.

SIU played with a slightly different singles line-up since Rodrigo Lama was out sick.

Feilpe Villasenor playing No. 1 found a way to win in three sets.

Sergio Sanchez won his No. 2 match easily 6-1, 6-1.

Tomas Gonzalez edged out Chris Tomas of EIU in three sets at the No. 4

Nick Bauer and Bojan Ilievski picked up wins in the No. 5 and No. 6 spots respectively.

"It was good to get a win," said Nelson. "It was about time."

The next match for the Salukis is at Charleston Southern March 13th.

Doubles
No. 1 Feilpe Villasenor/Sergio Sanchez 8-3 def. Chuck Levaque and Brandon Lenfert 8-3
No. 2 Chris Thomas/Sean def. Bojan Ilievski/Tomas Gonzalez 8-5
No. 3 Rodrigo Lama/Andrei Bubnov def. Vuk Milicevic/ Jordan Nestrud 8-4

Singles
No. 1 Feilpe Villasenor def. Chuck Levaque 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
No. 2 Sergio Sanchez def. Vuk Milicevic 6-1, 6-1
No. 3 Brandon Lenfert def. Andrei Bubnov 4-6, 7-5, 12-10
No. 4 Tomas Gonzalez def. Chris Thomas 6-0, 7-6, 8-6
No. 5 Nick Bauer def. Sean Bush 7-5, 6-2
No. 6 Bojan Ilievski def. Jordan Nestrud 7-5, 6-4