ORANGE, Calif. - After taking
two of the three doubles matches, the George Fox University Bruins
could not carry over that success in most of the singles matches
and wound up with a 6-3 loss to the Chapman University Panthers in
a non-conference men's tennis match Sunday evening here at
the Chapman courts.
The Bruins dropped the No. 1 doubles match in a close one, Juan
and Pedro Munoz falling 9-7 to the Panthers' Christian Isip
and Dylan Tevlin. The visitors rebounded with a 9-7 victory
at No. 2 as Scott Barnett and Nick
Jenness knocked off Leland Buttle and Luciano Rodriguez,
and went ahead 2-1 when Luke Pritchard and Matthew Gardner
prevailed over Alex Klein and Tyler McClusker 8-4 at No. 3.
The only victory the Bruins could manage in singles, however,
was a 6-3, 6-3 win by Juan Munoz over Buttle at No. 3. The
Panthers pulled out the match by winning the other five singles as
Tevlin topped Barnett 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 at No. 1; Isip downed Jenness
6-1, 6-1 at No. 2; Klein conquered Pedro Munoz 6-3, 6-2 at No. 4;
McClusker clipped Gardner 6-3, 6-2 at No. 5; and Rodriguez downed
Prichard 6-2, 6-2 at No. 6.
George Fox (5-9) completes its southern California spring break
swing Tuesday with a match at Biola University at 2:00 p.m.
Chapman (4-7) hosts Trinity University of Connecticut Thursday at
2:00 p.m.
