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March 31, 2008

Seasiders Get Road Win
Rong Ma (shown in earlier action) won in both singles and doubles play today

Mobile, AL—The Brigham Young University Hawaii men’s tennis team defeated West Alabama today 7-2 to improve to 7-1 for the season. The Seasiders took two of the three doubles matches before winning five of the six singles matches for the win.

In today’s doubles action, Marvin So’onalole and Rong Ma picked up an 8-2 win at the top doubles position while Junichi Shimoda and Manu Bajpai took an 8-4 win at number two doubles to give the Seasiders the lead heading into singles play.

In singles action, Ma romped to a 6-1, 6-1 win at number one singles, Agnel Gladwin Peter picked up a similar 6-1, 6-1 win at the fourth slot, and Bajpai won 6-0, 6-4 at the third position. Shimoda claimed a straight set, 7-5, 6-3 win at number six singles and So’onalole earned a 6-2, 6-2 victory at the fifth singles spot.

The Seasiders will face West Florida tomorrow in Pensacola, Florida at 1:00 EDT.

Scores:

Singles:
No. 1 Rong Ma, BYUH def., Aluano De La Torre, UWA 6-1, 6-1
No. 2 Denton Meintjes, UWA def. Ben Stevenson, BYUH 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 Manu Bajpal, BYUH def. Carlin Tighe, UWA 6-0, 6-4
No. 4 Agnel Gladwin Peter, BYUH def. Lucas Cruz, UWA 6-1, 6-1
No. 5 Marvin So’onalole, BYUH def. Wes Yarnton, UWA 6-2, 6-2
No. 6 Junichi Shimoda, BYUH def. Lucas Nunes, UWA 7-5, 6-3

Doubles:
No. 1 Ma/So’onalole, BYUH def. Craig Baldwin/Yarnton, UWA 8-2
No. 2 Bajpai/Shimoda, BYUH def. Tighe/Brandon Harris, UWA 8-4
No. 3 Meintjes/Nunes, UWA def. Stevenson/Peter, BYUH 9-7