Men's Tennis Ends Season With Defeat To Whitewater

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Posted: Saturday, April 14, 2007

EAU CLAIRE - The UW-Eau Claire men's tennis team ended its season with a 13-8 record after falling 8-1 to UW-Whitewater in its final match of the year today.

The team had a five-match win streak going into the contest, a season-best. It also is the only home loss on the year.

The only win of the day came in No. 2 doubles, where Phil Loprinzi (Fr.-Rochester, MN/Mayo) and Aaron Nordenskjold (Sr.-Red Wing, MN) took an 8-5 victory.

Only one singles player made it to three sets, that being Jeff Peterson (Sr.-Edina, MN). He had a 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 fight in No. 5 play. The No. 1 player for Whitewater was Robin Borg, son of tennis great Bjorn Borg.

It is the second most wins for a season under Coach Gillman, with last year's 15 being the most. Nordenskjold and Peterson were the only seniors.

WHITEWATER 8, EAU CLAIRE 1

Singles
No. 1 Robin Borg, WW def. Tim Eisele, EC 6-3, 6-3
No. 2 Alex Lowe, WW def. Steve Lantz, EC 6-1, 6-3
No. 3 Steve Klaas, WW def. Aaron Nordenskjold, EC 6-2, 6-3
No. 4 Johnny Reed, WW def. Erik Brandner, EC 6-0, 6-1
No. 5 Bill Stranberg, WW def. Jeff Peterson, EC 3-6, 6-4, 7-6
No. 6 John Friar, WW def. Phil Loprinzi, EC 6-1, 6-1

Doubles
No. 1 Borg/Lowe, WW def. Eisele/Lantz, EC 9-7
No. 2 Nordenskjold/Loprinzi, EC def. Klaas/Stranberg, WW 8-5
No. 3 Reed/Stefanik, WW def. Brandner/Peterson, EC 8-6