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LWC Men's Tennis falls in NAIA Quarterfinals to Auburn-Montgomery 5-4 Blue Raiders captured all three doubles point but were unable to finish off the WarHawks By Charles Balcom MOBILE, AL - The Lindsey Wilson men's tennis team saw their 2015 season come to a heartbreaking end on Thursday as the Blue Raiders fell 5-4 to Auburn-Montgomery (AL) in the NAIA National Championship Quarterfinals at the Mobile Tennis Center. Five of the six singles matches went to a decisive third set, but ultimately the Blue Raiders fell just short of their first-ever appearance in the national semifinals. The loss snaps Lindsey Wilson's winning streak of 18-consecutive matches, the most in school history. In doubles play, Denis Porcic and Raul Mendez quickly built a 7-2 advantage at the No. 2 doubles position over Luis Vivas and Francisco Mendieta. The WarHawks battled back and would win the next two points. Meanwhile, top-seeded doubles pairing Edberg Espinoza and Francisco Charters cruised to an 8-2 win over Birkir Gunnarsson and Othmane Lalami to claim the first point of the day for Lindsey Wilson. Shortly after, Porcic and Mendez finished off Vivas and Mendieta 8-4 to make it a 2-0 lead. The third doubles flight would be a battle from start to finish between Pablo Vilches and Ignacio Huertas and AUM's Nicolas Pinones and Miguel Grifol. The WarHawks held a 7-6 advantage in the flight but the Blue Raiders were able battle back and tie it 7-7. Then the Blue Raider duo broke the AUM serve to take an 8-7 advantage, and with Vilches back to serve, Lindsey Wilson captured the final point to win the match 9-7 and give the Blue Raiders a commanding 3-0 lead heading into singles play. Needing just two wins in singles play, the Blue Raiders began to go to work but faced a resilient effort across all of the matches. The WarHawks first got on the scoreboard as Grifol took down Mendez at the No. 3 position 7-5, 6-2 to cut the lead to 3-1. Huertas won the opening set at the No. 5 position, but he was unable to pull out the win eventually falling in three sets. Vilches then went down at the No. 6 position, falling in three sets as well. He fell 6-2 to open the match, but then battled back to force a third set with a 6-4 win. In the third set, Vilches just ran out of gas after an emotional win in doubles earlier in the day and eventually fell 6-1 to tie the match at 3-3. It marks the first time in two seasons that Vilches has suffered a singles loss, snapping a streak of 36-consecutive wins. Espinoza provided the lone singles victory on the day, gutting out a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win over seventh-ranked Vincent Dubosclard to keep the dream alive and make it 4-3. But then Porcic, who played in a marathon first set, then fell 6-7, 6-1, 6-0 to Pinones to tie the match at 4-4. It came down to the No. 4-seeded match between Charters and Lalami and after Charters had forced a third set with a 7-6 win, Lalami was able to pull away for the 6-3 win and send AUM to the next round with the 5-4 win. The loss ends the Blue Raiders' 2015 season with a 20-3 record. This story was posted on 2015-05-14 20:00:11
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