Lobos Fall at Oregon 6-1

EUGENE, Ore. — UNM’s No. 49 ranked doubles team of Aram Noroozian and Georgio Samaha picked up a second striaght nationally-ranked doubles win and Dario Ciobotaru earned a three-set win in a third-set tiebreaker, but Oregon took the doubles point and five singles matches for a 6-1 victory in the first of three matches over four days in Oregon.  UNM fell to 1-3 while Oregon jumped to 6-2.

Noroozian and Samaha, who were unranked two weeks ago when they took down the No. 3 doubles team in the nation from Baylor 6-2, did it again, this time over the nation’s No. 77 doubles team.  The pairing, which are now 9-3 overall playing together, are a perfect 3-0 in the spring season.  That win however was UNM’s only win in doubles as UNM fell 6-4 at both No. 2 and No. 3 doubles.

UNM was in it in singles but couldn’t get a tiebreaker to go its way, losing three tiebreaks, including a second set tiebreaker against Samaha at No. 2 singles, losing 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).  The only tiebreaker win came from Ciobotaru, who won his match 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), taking the final three points for the match.  Avery Tallakson lost 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 and Daniil Kakhniuk lost 7-6 (7-5), 6-2.  Those three tiebreakers proved to be the difference as wins would have given UNM a leg up in the match.

The Lobos stay in Eugene to face Louisiana on Saturday at 1 pm.  The match will not be streamed nor have live scoring.