Beautiful Weather and a nice win

Just wrapped up a 7-2 victory over Willamette on our home courts. Had another great crowd and glorious weather as we took on undefeated Willamette. Coming into today both teams were undefeated in NWC play with Willamette at 6-0 and Whitman 3-0. Willamette was also on a bit of a hot streak coming into today's match having just defeated PLU 6-3, whereas three weeks ago we squeaked by PLU 5-4.

In todays match we started off very strong in doubles. Great energy, high level of play and took command of all three matches right off the bat. Had to make an adjustment at #3 doubles because of an illness so Jeffrey Tolman and Jake Cappel got the call. They played great together cruising to an 8-0 victory. Number two doubles wasn't very behind as Quin and Christoph won 8-2. Matt and ET continued to play well together winning 8-3 at #1 doubles.

Three of the first four singles matches started off very closely (#1, #2 and #3). Chris Bailey got on the board first with a 6-0, 6-2 victory at #4 singles. Willamette's Josh Wong played great tennis defeating Etienne 6-2, 6-4. At #2 Jeffrey Tolman played a topsy turvey match winning 7-6, 0-6, 6-4 to clinch the match for us. At #1 singles Matt Solomon lost 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 to Willamette's standout freshman. At #5 and #6 we were fortunate enough to get pretty quick victories .. Christoph won 6-2, 6-0 and Sam Sadeghi won 6-0, 6-0 at #6 singles.

Was a good match for us against a good team. Willamette has certainly improved over last year and they are clearly one of the better teams in our conference. Actually our conference is pretty close so far this year...lots of close match scores around the league.

Tomorrow our we face Lewis and Clark College at 1pm. Note this match was originally scheduled for 2pm but LC requested a time change to help with travel schedules.

Whitman 7 Willamette 2

Doubles

#1 Solomon/Moshevich def Wong/Baumgartner 8-3

#2 Miller/Fuchs def Houser/Mack 8-2

#3 Tolman/Cappel def Ferguson/Lagattuta 8-0

Singles

#1 Solomon lost Baumgartner 7-6, 4-6, 6-3

#2 Tolman def Ferguson 7-6, 0-6, 6-4

#3 Moshevich lost Wong 6-2, 6-4

#4 Bailey def Houser 6-2, 6-0

#5 Fuchs def Lagattuta 6-2, 6-0

#6 Sadeghi def Mach 6-0. 6-0