Men's Tennis Downs Loyola-Marymount

Wednesday, March 21

Los Angeles, Calif.

1:30 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Loyola Marymount

3/21/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

Los Angeles ? The Dartmouth men's tennis team improved its record to 12-3 with a 4-3 victory at Loyola Marymount this afternoon.

The doubles point is always a key element to any big win and today was no exception as the Big Green won both the #1 and #2 doubles matches to clinch what turned out to be the key point.

In singles, five of the six matches went to three sets. Justin Tzou won the only two-set match, taking a 7-5, 6-3 victory at #4 singles. The critical matches turned out to be at #5 and #6 with both Steven McGaughey and Ari Gayer coming back to win in three sets.

McGaughey's was a match for the ages as he lost the first set, won the second 6-4 and went up 5-0 in the third set only to have to pull it out in a 7-1 tie break. Gayer, in the singles line up for the first time in a month, was the last man standing with the score 3-3 and pulled out the win at #6 to clinch the Dartmouth victory.

The Green is back in action on Saturday at Cal Poly.

Dartmouth 4, Loyola Marymount University 3

Doubles

#1 David Waslen/Daniel Freeman (D) def. Sam Tadevosian/Jacek Twarowski (LMU)

8-4

#2 Jeffrey Schechtman/Steven McGaughey (D) def. Nick Perez/Matt Phillips

(LMU) 8-6

#3 Nico Terrien/Nick Von Der Ahe (LMU) def. Ari Gayer/Justin Tzou (D) 8-4

Singles

#1 Nico Terrien (LMU) def. David Waslen (D) 6-1, 4-6, 6-3

#2 Sam Tadevosian (LMU) def. Daniel Freeman (D) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5

#3 Jacek Twarowski (LMU) def. Jeffrey Schechtman (D) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2