Slugs Roll over Bulldogs heading into finals

In a wonderful total team effort the Slugs got back to their historic roots and swept the doubles in route to and 8-1 victory at home over the Bulldogs of University of Redlands. Erik Rosner and Ian Stanley continued their amazing stretch of matches of late winning at two doubles by a score of 8-3 against the veteran Bulldog team of Keven Wong and Jeff Hammond. This got us started and was followed by wins at three doubles by Erich Koenig and Sam Rodgers 8-6 and one doubles where Bryan Pybas and Parker Larsen came back from and early break down to win 8-5.

First off in singles was Soph Parker Larsen who won his match handily by scores of 6-2,6-2 looking more and more comfortable on court. The match was iced by Andre Halabi who won at four singles by a score of 6-3,6-3 over his veteran opponent. Andre continues to add to his weapons and his increase speed and strength were on display. Erich Koenig produced and workman like effort at two singles winning 7-5,6-4. Brian Pybas came from a ways back to win a breaker for the third after dropping the first set of his match. Sam Rodgers beat last years highest ranked Div lll freshmen in Redland's Darren Dahl by scores of 7-5,7-5 and showed great tenacity. Our only loss came at six singles where Ian Stanley lost in three sets after winning the first. He has shown great stretches of tennis but still needs to work on dealing with adversity and holding his level.

Overall a wonderful effort as we head into finals. Next up for the Slugs is a series of Div lll home matches after finals and before we head off to Texas for three very tough matches against top 10 rivals Trinity, Claremont and Univ of Washington.

Thanks for your support and great to see Slug Alums Colin Mark-Griffin, Max Liberty-Point, Noah Farb and many family members of our team. Best wishes and go Slugs!