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Lobos Battle Oregon but Fall 4-1

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EUGENE, Oregon — The University of New Mexico couldn’t have been more even with Oregon in doubles.  Seriously.  All three matches in doubles finished 6-6 and went to tiebreakers, and Oregon took two of those, and that was the ultimate difference in a 4-1 loss for UNM in which UNM had a strong shot at winning the two unfinished singles matches over highly ranked foes.

The loss dropped UNM to 5-6 overall, and the Lobos get to go right back out on the court, taking on Old Dominion in a neutral site match tomorrow at 2 p.m. Mountain Time.

Double was to say the least crazy, and tight.  All three doubles teams for UNM, Jake Trondson and Raul Dobai at No. 1, Sergio Molina and Dominic West at No. 2 and Facundo Bermejo and Stepan Holis at No. 3 were tied 3-3 halfway through their matches, and then 6-6, sending all three to tiebreakers.  The Lobos No. 1 duo of Trondson and Dobai were facing the No. 10 team in the nation in Joshua Charlton and Ty Gentry, and they came out on the wrong end of a 7-4 score.  That was preceded by a 7-3 tiebreaker loss at No. 2 by West and Molina, which gave the doubles point to Oregon.  Bermejo and Holis were up 8-7 when that was halted.

In singles, UNM needed four wins and only officially mustered one.  Sergio Molina at No. 3 singles won 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 over Gentry, and that made it 2-1 Oregon after Bermejo lost 6-4, 6-1 at No. 5.  Raul Dobai lost after winning his firwst set, losing 6-0, 2-6, 3-6 and then Rafael Abdulsalam lost at No. 6 6-3, 7-5 to give Oregon the 4-1 win. 

However, the two unfinished matches saw two Lobos inches away from wins over nationally-ranked opponents.  West at No. 1 singles was up 6-3, 5-6 over Charlton, who is currently ranked No. 33, and Holis was up 7-6 (7-1), 4-4 over No. 94 Emmanuel Coste, Had UNM picked up the tiebreakers in doubles, it would have been 3-2 Oregon with a chance for UNM to win the match.