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Sports Release                                                                                                       March 9, 2008

Catawba Men's Tennis Takes 5-4 Win Over LMU

SALISBURY, NC -- Catawba rallied for four singles wins to defeat visiting Lincoln Memorial 5-4 in South Atlantic Conference men’s tennis action on Sunday at the Johnson Tennis Center. The win improves the Catawba Indians to 7-5 overall and 1-0 in the SAC. The Railsplitters fall to 1-5 and 0-3.

The Railsplitters won two doubles matches and at the top two singles positions, but Catawba claimed wins at the lower four singles spots and at #3 doubles to grab the win. Tom McCormack (Winchester, ENGLAND/Symonds) rallied from 1-4 down in the third set to give the Indians the winning points.

MEN’S MATCH RESULTS
CATAWBA 5, LINCOLN MEMORIAL 4
Singles
#1 Hannes Ganns (LMU) d. Sean Soltan 6-2, 6-3
#2 Bastian Guenther (LMU) d. Brice Cockerham 6-1, 6-1
#3 Hector Bousoulas (C) d. Andras Pauko 6-4, 6-4
#4 Cyle Petersen (C) d. Gabor Heredi-Szabo 6-2, 6-1
#5 Dana Pallesen (C) d. Cody Swindall 7-6, 6-2
#6 Tom McCormack (C) d. Zach Jones 6-1, 5-7, 6-4

Doubles
#1 Ganns/Guenther (LMU) d. Soltan/Cockerham 8-2
#2 Pauko/Heredi-Szabo (LMU) d. Pallesen/McCormack 8-6
#3 Bousoulas/Petersen (C) d. Swindall/Jones 8-2

RECORDS: Catawba 7-5, 1-0 SAC; Lincoln Memorial 1-5, 0-3 SAC

-LMU-

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