April 22, 2006

TULSA, Okla. (SMU) - The No. 2 seed SMU fell to No. 3 seed Tulsa today as Tulsa put up four points to knock the Mustangs out of the C-USA Championship in the semifinal round at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

Tulsa jumped on the early lead in doubles as the TU No. 1 doubles team of Arnau Brugues and Aleksander Charpantidis defeated Alex Skrypko and David Kuczer, 8-4. The Soriano brothers, Federico and Ricardo, sealed the doubles point with an 8-6 win over Federico Murgier and Henrik Soderberg.

After fighting back to split the sets, Oivind Alver was not able to overcome Diego Camacho as TU posted a, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 win at No. 5 singles. Murgier and Kuczer both fell to their opponents at the No. 3 and 4 positions. The rest of the matches were haulted. Arnau of TU and Skypko were battling it out at No. 1 as the two sets were split before play was halted. Skrypko, the 48th-ranked player in the country, dealt Arnau his only singles loss of the season on April 14.

Although this concludes their regular season, the Mustangs await the possibility of receiving a NCAA at-large bid.

Match #6 - 3:00 p.m. - #3, 42nd-Ranked Tulsa def. #2, 35th-Ranked SMU, 4-0Singles -#12 Arnau Brugues (TU) vs. #48 Alex Skrypko (SMU), dnf#57 Federico Soriano (TU) vs. #56 Peter Oredsson (SMU), dnf#118 Ricardo Soriano (TU) vs. Federico Murgier (SMU), 6-3, 6-3Will Gray (TU) vs. David Kuczer (SMU), 6-1, 6-4Diego Camacho (TU) vs. Oivind Alver (SMU), 6-3, 1-6, 6-3Ross Cunningham (TU) vs. Henrik Soderberg (SMU), dnfDoubles -Brugues/Aleksander Charpantidis (TU) def. Skrypko/Kuczer (SMU), 8-4Andy Connelly/Cunningham (TU) vs. Alver/Oredsson (SMU), dnfF. Soriano/R. Soriano (TU) def. Murgier/Soderberg (SMU), 8-6
Tulsa Overall Record: 16-10SMU Overall Record: 17-8