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March 1, 2008

Seasiders Down Vulcans Again
Marvin So'onalole (shown in earlier action) was a double winner today

Hilo, HI—The Brigham Young University Hawaii men’s tennis team defeated UH-Hilo today 5-4 for the second day in a row. Just as they did yesterday, the Seasiders took two of the three doubles matches before claiming three singles wins to close out the victory and improve to 2-0 for the season.

Rong Ma, Agnel Gladwin Peter, and Marvin So’onalole were all double winners for the Seasiders today. Ma and Peter combined for an 8-5 win at number one doubles and each scored a win in singles as well. Ma took a 6-4, 6-3 victory at the second singles slot and Peter scored a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 win at the fourth singles position. So’onalole teamed with A.J. Bartlett for an 8-2 doubles win at number three doubles and then won at number five singles by a 6-2, 6-3 score.

The Seasiders will face Division III power Emory (GA) on March 11th at 2:00 pm HST in Laie.

Scores:

Singles:
No. 1 Luiz Gonzaga, UHH def. A.J. Bartlett, BYUH 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
No. 2 Rong Ma, BYUH def. Laurent Colombo, UHH 6-4, 6-3
No. 3 Kevin Tamura, UHH def. Ben Stevenson, BYUH 6-2, 6-4
No. 4 Agnel Gladwin Peter, BYUH def. Stephen Royalty, UHH 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
No. 5 Marvin So’onalole, BYUH def. Mitchel Gelina, UHH 6-2, 6-3
No. 6 Mangal Sriram, UHH def. Junichi Shimoda, BYUH 6-3, 4-4 ret.

Doubles:
No. 1 Peter/Ma, BYUH def. Colombo/Tamura, UHH 8-5
No. 2 Gonzaga/Sriram, UHH def. Stevenson/Shimoda, BYUH 8-4
No. 3 Bartlett/So’onalole, BYUH def. Royalty/Aaron Tada, UHH 8-2