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Hofstra 4, Delaware 3
April 10, 2004

Delaware Men Fall in Last Match of the Day; Zweig, Wayne Double Winners

NEWARK, DE -- The University of Delaware women swept all nine matches, including five singles wins in straight sets, to post a 7-0 win over Hofstra and the Hofstra men edged the Blue Hens by a 4-3 score in two Colonial Athletic Association tennis matches Saturday at the Delaware Field House Courts.

The Blue Hen women won their second straight match to improve to 7-8 on the season (2-2 vs. CAA) and defeated the Pride for the 10th straight time without a loss. Hofstra fell to 2-9, 0-2 CAA with the defeat.

On the men's side, Hofstra's Rodrigo Teixeira downed Delaware's John Tully in three sets at the No. 2 singles spot in the last match of the day to clinch the 4-3 victory for the Pride, who improved to 10-4 (3-0 CAA) with their seventh straight win. The Blue Hens, who swept the three doubles matches and won at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, fell to 9-9 (1-2 CAA) for the season.

The Delaware women swept through their morning match as Sari Shuster at No. 1 singles, Liz Perlow at No. 2, Marissa Singer at No. 3, Beth Principe at No. 5, and Stefanie Riddle at No. 6 all posted straight set wins. Delaware's No. 4 player, Jamie deGraffenreid, needed three sets to down Hofstra's Jill Spiritus 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Shuster (12-9) and Riddle (12-6) each won their team-high 12th matches of the season.

The Hens also won all three doubles competitions with Shuster and deGraffenreid winning their third straight match of the season at the No. 1 spot, Principe and Katie Miller won at No. 2, and Perlow and Singer were winners at the No. 3 spot.

On the men's side, the Delaware men suffered a close defeat despite winning the doubles point with three wins by identical 9-8 scores. Tully and Sanjay Khindri won at No. 1, Josh Ditman and Ari Zweig won at No. 2, and Jon Edwards and Philip Wayne (at right) were winners at the No. 3 spot.

Zweig and Wayne were double winners for the Hens as they captured Delaware's only two singles wins of the afternoon. Zweig posted a 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 win over Robert Sforzo at No. 5 and Wayne was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Mario Hluch at the No. 6 competition.

AGATE:

Men: Hofstra def. Delaware, 4-3

Singles: Nikola Djordjevic, H, def. Sanjay Khindri, 6-3, 6-1; Rodrigo Teixeira, H, def. John Tully, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Michael Bosch, H, def. Adam Liebman, 6-2, 7-6 (2); Matt Schor, H, def. Josh Ditman, 6-1, 6-4; Ari Zweig, D, def. Robert Sforzo, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5; Philip Wayne, D, def. Mario Hluch, 6-1, 6-4.

Doubles: Khindri-Tully, D, def. Djordjevic-Schor, 9-8 (6); Ditman-Zweig, D, def. Teixeira-Sforzo, 9-8 (4); Jon Edwards-Wayne, D, def. Bosch-Hluch, 9-8 (7).

 

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