Jan. 19, 2008

San Francisco - USF Men's Tennis took a 5-2 victory over the University of Buffalo in their first match of the spring season. The Dons swept doubles competition and took four of six in singles competition.

Doubles team one of Thong Tu and Einar Hart earned an 8-6 victory over Buffalo's number one team of Nikesh Panthlia and Kirill Kolomyts. Greg Hom and Rainer Nachbauer earned an 8-2 defeat over Alexis Lluis and Marcelo Mazzetto. Mitch Del Rosario and Torin Ching also pulled the 8-2 win over Eric Rothstein and Octavian Stane.

In singles action, Tu defeated Kolomyts 6-2, 6-2; Hart defeated Stane 5-7, 6-1, 6-4; Del Rosario defeated Rothstein 6-1, 3-6, 6-2; and Ching defeated Lluis 6-3, 6-2. Cohen fell to Buffalo's Panthlia 7-5, 6-2; and Nachbauer fell to Mazzetto 6-4, 6-3.