BGSU Beats Bonnies, Too

Saturday, March 24

St. Bonaventure, N.Y.

2:00 PM ET

Bowling Green State University

St. Bonaventure

March 25, 2001 | Men's Tennis

March 24, 2001

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. - The Bowling Green State University men's tennis team won for the second time on Saturday (March 24), posting a 5-2 win over host St. Bonaventure University in a non-league match.

The Falcons, ranked 75th in the country, improve to 12-7 overall, while the Bonnies drop to 10-6 on the year. SBU is 3-0 in the Atlantic 10 Conference this year.

BGSU captured four of the six singles matches and all three doubles contests. At the top flight, junior Vitek Wild led SBU's Vili Nurmi by a 4-3 count in the first set, but was forced to retire.

Sophomores Nicolas Lopez-Acevedo and Geoff Hiscox won at the second and third flights, respectively. Lopez-Acevedo won a pair of 7-6 sets, while Hiscox captured a three-set match.

Junior Mike Kossoff won a three-set contest at the fourth flight, downing Mark Gorski by an 11-9 count in a third-set tiebreaker.

Senior Brandon Gabel was defeated by the Bonnies' Markus Arvaja in a three-set match at the fifth level, while sophomore Micael Lopez-Acevedo was a winner at the final singles flight. After he and SBU's Drew Crawford split the first two sets, Lopez-Acevedo won a 10-3 tiebreaker.

Wild and Kossoff teamed for an 8-4 win at the top flight, while Gabel and Hiscox posted a 9-7 victory at the second level. The Falcons' victorious third-flight team consisted of Nicolas Lopez-Acevedo and freshman Nick Moxley.

The Brown and Orange will return to action next Saturday (March 31) with a match at Western Michigan University. That contest is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Following that WMU match, the Falcons of head coach Jay Harris will begin a six-match homestand with an April 7 contest vs. the arch-rival University of Toledo.

BGSU 5, St. Bonaventure 2 (March 24)

St. Bonaventure, N.Y.

Singles

1 - Vili Nurmi (SBU) def. Vitek Wild 3-4, retired
2 - Nicolas Lopez-Acevedo (BGSU) def. Mikko Haulos 7-6, 7-6
3 - Geoff Hiscox (BGSU) def. Joel Carney 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
4 - Mike Kossoff (BGSU) def. Mark Gorski 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (11-9)
5 - Markus Arvaja (SBU) def. Brandon Gabel 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
6 - Micael Lopez-Acevedo (BGSU) def. Drew Crawford 2-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10-3)

Doubles

1 - Kossoff/Wild (BGSU) def. Carney/Gorski 8-4
2 - Gabel/Hiscox (BGSU) def. Haulos/Nurmi 9-7
3 - N. Lopez-Acevedo/Nick Moxley (BGSU) def. Arvaja/Crawford 8-4