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Men's Tennis

Tigers Settle for Opening Day Split at SCIAC Tournament

 

CLAREMONT, Calif. (April 18, 008) – Without their # 1 player, the Tigers traveled to the 2008 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament hosted by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Occidental entered the weekend as the fourth ranked team, but fell to # 5 Pomona-Pitzer 5-3 in Round One. Oxy rebounded with a 9-0 win over Caltech in the afternoon.

 

Oxy got out to a 2-1 lead after doubles play in which Dan Ikuta and Vic Sowers and Vince Karlen and Alex Montgomery were successful 8-4, and 8-2, respectively.

 

The Sagehens proved to be more powerful in singles action, taking four of the five matches.

 

Karlen recorded the only Tigers victory at the # 3 spot where he defeated Drew Olian 6-3, 6-0. Montgomery played competitively, going into three games with PP's Grant Friedman, but fell short (6-2, 4-6, 6-3).

 

Occidental cruised to a 9-0 victory in Round Two as they faced the Caltech Beavers.  

 

Tomorrow the Tigers will face the Whittier College Poets at 10:00 a.m. in the fifth place match.

 

Full results from today can be found here.

Below are the restults from Round One.

#4 Occidental v. #5 Pomona-Pitzer

Occidental 3 

 

Pomona-Pitzer 5 

Winner

Score

  Jamal Fahim / Kuhn

v.

  Olian / Taylor

  P-P

  8-6

  Ikuta / Sowers

v.

  Friedman / Blake Phillips

  Oxy

  8-4

  Karlen / Montgomery

v.

  Drew Cohn / Tagliarino

  Oxy

  8-2

 

  Vic Sowers

v.

  Cam Taylor

  P-P

  6-2, 6-3

  Dan Ikuta

v.

  Nick Tagliarino

  P-P

  6-2, 6-2

  Vince Karlen

v.

  Drew Olian

  Oxy

  6-3, 6-0

  Mike Kuhn

v.

  John Williford

  P-P

  6-2, 6-0

  Alex Montgomery

v.

  Grant Friedman

  P-P

  6-2, 4-6, 6-3

  Stefan Pastor

v.

  Michael Powell

  DNF

  5-7, 6-4, 3-2

 

 

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Players Mentioned

Vic Sowers

Vic Sowers

Sophomore
Alex Montgomery

Alex Montgomery

Sophomore
Jamal Fahim

Jamal Fahim

Junior
Mike Kuhn

Mike Kuhn

Junior
Vince Karlen

Vince Karlen

Senior

Players Mentioned

Vic Sowers

Vic Sowers

Sophomore
Alex Montgomery

Alex Montgomery

Sophomore
Jamal Fahim

Jamal Fahim

Junior
Mike Kuhn

Mike Kuhn

Junior
Vince Karlen

Vince Karlen

Senior