March 7, 2004

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The UAB men's tennis team won four of six singles matches to take a 4-3 win against Memphis in the 2004 HEB Collegiate Team Championships.

UAB's Sanzaruz Zaman clinched the match for the Blazers with a three-set win over Memphis' Marten Tamla at the No. 5 position. Zaman went up early by winning the first set, 7-5. Tamla claimed the second set, 6-3, but Zaman fought back to win the third set, 6-4, to take the match.

Memphis took the lead early with wins at No.1 and 3 doubles to take a 1-0 lead into the singles portion of the match, but UAB used wins at No. 1, 2, 4, and 5 to complete a comeback and take the match 4-3. Juniors Alex Bucewicz and Mark Finnegan picked up wins at No. 3 and 6 singles, respectively, to try to keep the Tigers from falling to the Blazers for the second time in two weeks. Memphis fell to UAB in the consolation match at the C-USA Inter Conference Tournament last weekend.

Memphis (6-6, 1-3) will return home to host Indiana State and Charlotte, Mar. 9-10 before travelling to Texas for four matches against four different ranked opponents.

UAB 4, Memphis 3
SINGLES

No. 1: Tobi Klein (UAB) def. Lee Taylor Walker (UM): 6-3, 7-6
No. 2: Anton Mavrin (UAB) def. James Spence (UM): 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
No. 3: Alex Bucewicz (UM) def. Andre Maier (UAB): 6-3, 6-2
No. 4: Kristijan Mitrovski (UAB) def. Luke Campbell (UM): 6-3, 6-2
No. 5: Sanzaruz Zaman (UAB) def. Marten Tamla (UM): 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
No. 6: Mark Finnegan (UM) def. Dino Mancarella (UAB): 6-4, 7-5

Doubles
No. 1: Spence/Walker (UM) def. Klein/Maier (UAB): 8-6
No. 2: Mavrin/Mitrovski (UAB) def. Bucewicz/Campbell (UM): DNF
No. 3: Jago/Withell (UM) def. Mancarella/Zaman (UAB): 8-4