March 10, 2003

CLAREMONT, California - The HSU men's tennis team began there strive towards nationals this past weekend. The Cowboys faced off with Occidental College on Thursday defeating them 7-0 and on Friday losing to the Redlands 6-2 and defeating Whittier 7-0.

Against Occidental the men came out strong in doubles showing no mercy. The Cowboys picked up the doubles point and soon closed the match with six wins in singles.

HSU then faced No.5 nationally ranked, University of The Redlands. The Cowboys lost the doubles point, only winning the doubles match of Brad Grace and David Wu. Unfortunately the men were unable to grab any singles matches, except for freshman David Wu, who won 6-0, 6-3.

To finish off the weekends play the Cowboys traveled to Whittier College. HSU won the match 7-0, having very little trouble.

HSU hopes with the wins of this past weekend that their regional as well as national rankings will be effected, which will give them the opportunity to compete in the NCAA Division III national tournament in May. The Cowboys will return to action after spring break, in which they will travel to Alpine to take on Sul Ross University in an ASC Conference match.

Thursday, March 6, 2003
Occidental College
Singles
Mitch Aston def. Brett Baker	         6-2, 7-5
Justin Narvid def. John Munger		6-3, 6-1
David Wu def. Alex Candia			6-0, 6-2
Bryce Hicks def. Paul Seeley	         6-0, 6-2
John Roaten def. Tim Maes			6-3, 6-2
Reed Stafford def. Matt Keller		6-0, 6-1

Doubles
Aston/Plowman def. Baker/Candia		8-2
Wu/Moore def. Munger/Seeley		         8-3
Narvid/Hicks def. Keller/Maes		8-0

Friday, March 7, 2003
University of Redlands
Singles
Brian Murphy def. Mitch Aston 		6-3, 6-4
Rob Candiotty def. Mark Plowman		6-0, 6-3
Marco Bravo def. Justin Narvid		6-3, 6-2
Andrew Elling def. Brad Grace		6-0, 6-2
David Wu def. Brian Manning		         6-0, 6-3
Tyson Hunter def. Bryce Hicks		6-3, 6-4

Doubles
Candiotty/Murphy def. Aston/Plowman	         9-7
Grace/Wu def. Bravo/Elling			8-6
Manning/Hunter def. Narvid/Hicks		8-4

Whittier College
Singles
Brad Grace def. Nick Julia			6-3, 7-5
David Wu def. Luke McConnell		6-0, 6-1
Justin Narvid def. Monte Burton		6-1, 6-0
Bryce Hicks def. Ben Fuchs			6-2, 6-2
John Roaten def. Dave Duran			6-0, 6-0
Ethan Moore def. Fahd Ali			6-0, 6-0

Doubles
Grace/Wu def. Julia/Fuchs			8-2
Narvid/Hicks def. McConnell			8-4
Moore/Roaten def. Duran/Hathaway		8-2