BATON ROUGE, La. – The Brown men's tennis team was defeated by No. 44 LSU , 4-0, on Tuesday at the LSU Tennis Complex.
For doubles competition, junior
Gregory Garcia (Poway, Calif.) and sophomore
Peter Tarwid (Lake Forest, Ill.) battled tough in first doubles against No. 10 Jordan Daigle and Boris Arias, but fell 6-3. Sophomore
Aaron Sandberg (Hudson, Ohio) and freshman
Mladen Mitak (Zagreb, Croatia) pushed their third doubles match to extra points, but were unable to capture the set (7-5).
In singles play, Garcia had another tough battle in first singles to No. 69 Jordan Daigle but lost the contest 6-3, 6-4.
The Bears will spend one more day in Louisiana and compete against No. 23 Tulane on Wednesday, March 30 for a 3:00 p.m. match.
Singles
1. #69 Jordan Daigle (LSU) def. Gregory Garcia (BROWN) 6-3, 6-4
2. Justin Butsch (LSU) vs. Peter Tarwid (BROWN) 6-4, 3-4, unfinished
3. Simon Freund (LSU) vs.
Jack Haworth (BROWN) 6-4, 4-2, unfinished
4. Nikola Samardzic (LSU) def. Mladen Mitak (BROWN) 6-3, 6-1
5. Boris Arias (LSU) vs.
Charles Tan (BROWN) 4-6, 5-2, unfinished
6. Andrew Korinek (LSU) def. Aaron Sandberg (BROWN) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles
1. #10 Boris Arias/Jordan Daigle (LSU) def. Gregory Garcia/Peter Tarwid (BROWN) 6-3
2. Jack Haworth/Charles Tan (BROWN) def. Tam Trinh/Justin Butsch (LSU) 6-3
3. Gabor Csonka/Andrew Korinek (LSU) def. Aaron Sandberg/Mladen Mitak (BROWN) 7-5