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Men's Tennis Advances To Semifinals, 4-0
April 27, 2000 | Men's Tennis
April 27, 2000
TOLEDO, Ohio - The Bowling Green men's tennis team successfully opened MAC Championship play with a 4-0 victory over the University at Buffalo Thursday morning (April 27). The quarterfinal-round match was held at the University of Toledo Tennis Courts in Toledo, Ohio.
The second-seeded Falcons won, or were leading, at every level against the #7 Bulls when the match was halted. In the MAC Championships, a dual match is ended as soon as one team reaches four points.
The Falcons won the doubles point, with the top-flight team of junior Brandon Gabel and sophomore Vitek Wild winning by an 8-4 score. Freshmen Peter Gardonyi and Nicolas Lopez-Acevedo did not allow their third-flight opponents to win a game.
At the second doubles flight, freshman Geoff Hiscox and sophomore Ed Kuresman were just a game away from victory, leading by a 7-4 margin when the match was halted.
In singles action, the Falcons got wins from Gabel and the Lopez-Acevedo twins. Gabel, a Toledo native, lost just one game en route to the victory in his hometown. He beat UB's Tim Powell by a 6-0, 6-1 result.
Nicolas Lopez-Acevedo was a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Fery Kasiman at the second flight, while brother Micael Lopez-Acevedo stopped Sean Kelley, 6-1, 6-0, at the sixth flight.
Sophomore Vitek Wild won the first set of his #1 singles match, while classmates Mike Kossoff and Kuresman each had won their first set and were leading in the second. Kossoff was just two games away from victory at the fourth flight, while Kuresman held a 5-1 lead in the second set at the #5 level.
The Falcons, now 16-7 in dual play, will face third-seeded Ball State in the semifinal round. BSU was a 4-0 winner over #6 Eastern Michigan Thursday. The BGSU-Ball State match will begin at 1:00 p.m. Friday (April 28) at the UT Tennis Courts.
Friday's other semifinal match will feature top-seeded Western Michigan vs. #4 seed Toledo at 9:00 a.m. UT downed fifth-seeded Northern Illinois, 4-0, in Thursday play, while WMU drew a first-round bye.
