UMSL Falls to DePauw 6-3

Rivermen Lose 6-3; Kardos Wins Twice

St. Louis, Mo. – The UMSL men’s tennis team suffered a 6-3 loss to DePauw University on Friday afternoon, suffering their first loss of the spring season.

The Rivermen dropped two of the three doubles matches to get in a hole before the singles matches started. UMSL got a win from its top doubles team of Martin Kardos and Matt Vaulkhard, recording an 8-4 win at one doubles, but the team took losses at two and three doubles by identical 8-4 scores.

In singles matches, Martin Kardos remained undefeated on the season with a 6-1, 6-2 win at two singles. At the four singles spot, Mike Schaaf dropped the first set 6-2, but fought back to win the second set 6-4 and then won in the tiebreaker 10-6. Unfortunately for the Rivermen, those were the only two singles matches UMSL could pull out, dropping the other four matches for a 6-3 loss.

UMSL is now 2-1 on the season and will play at Principia on Sunday, March 16.

RECAP
DePauw 6, UMSL 3

Doubles:
1. Matt Vaulkhard/Martin Kardos (UMSL) def. Marshall Kuresman/Billy Elliott (DU) 8-4
2. Greg Nammari/Darren Eblovi (DU) def. Rajan Saini /Mike Schaaf (UMSL) 8-4
3. Oscar Lai/Aaron Gress (DU) def. Martin Damm/Stephen Pobst (UMSL) 8-4

Singles:
1. Marshall Kuresman (DU) def. Matt Vaulkhard (UMSL) 6-2, 6-3
2. Martin Kardos (UMSL) def. Greg Nammari (DU) 6-1, 6-2
3. Rick Lucas (DU) def. Martin Damm (UMSL) 6-3, 6-4
4. Mike Schaaf (UMSL) def. Aaron Gress (DU) 2-6, 6-4, 10-6
5. Darren Eblovi (DU) def. Rajan Saini (UMSL) 7-6, 6-2
6. Billy Elliott (DU) def. Stephen Pobst (UMSL) 6-1, 6-2