University of Minnesota Athletics
Gophers Win at Hawai'i
3/18/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
The University of Minnesota Gophers took a 6-1 victory over the University of Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors putting the cherry on top of a already great spring break trip.
The Gophers have been working out in Hawai'i the whole week and ended with a strong victory tonight taking the doubles point and five singles.
All three doubles easily won with Josip Krstanovic and Justyn Levin taking the No. 3 spot with a 6-0 win. The duo is now 6-4 together this season.
Matic Spec and Jeremy Lynn took a 6-1 win at No. 2 while Marino Alpeza and Ruben Weber took a 6-1 at No. 1 moving to 7-7 on the year. Spec and Lynn have improved to 6-3 on the season.
Felix Corwin won the Gophers second point of the evening with a (6-2, 6-3) victory at the No. 4 spot. He holds a 10-9 overall record. Krstanovic recorded his fifth win of the season in a close (6-4, 7-5) win at the No. 5 spot.
The match sealing point came from fellow freshman Levin as he won (6-3, 7-5) at the No. 3 spot giving him 10 wins this season.
The Rainbow Warriors took a win at No. 6 before the Maroon and Gold finished off the day with wins at the No. 2 and No. 1 spots.
Weber went into three sets taking the first set 6-4 at No. 2 before falling in a battle of a 7-5 second set. He bounced back with ease winning 10-4 his 15th win this year.
Spec also went to three sets cruising to a 6-1 first set victory before falling 6-2 in the second set. In the last set of the evening he hung on to win 7-6 (4) winning his second straight match.
Minnesota is done with their nonconference schedule and get into B1G play next Friday hosting Nebraska at 6 p.m.
Minnesota 6, Hawai'i 1
Singles competition
1. Matic Spec (MINN) def. Felix Albert (HAW) 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4)
2. Ruben Weber (MINN) def. Igor Kolaric (HAW) 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 (10-4)
3. Justyn Levin (MINN) def. Marcel Chan (HAW) 6-3, 7-5
4. Felix Corwin (MINN) def. Nikolai Storch (HAW) 6-2, 6-3
5. Josip Krstanovic (MINN) def. Spencer Travalino (HAW) 6-4, 7-5
6. Fabian Woehrl (HAW) def. Marino Alpeza (MINN) 7-6, 7-5
Doubles competition
1. Marino Alpeza/Ruben Weber (MINN) def. Felix Albert/Marcel Chan (HAW) 6-1
2. Matic Spec/Jeremy Lynn (MINN) def. Joakim Pinola/Ruben Blattner (HAW) 6-1
3. Josip Krstanovic/Justyn Levin (MINN) def. Spencer Travalino/Nikolai Storch (HAW) 6-0
Order of Finish: Double (3,2,1) Singles (4, 5, 3,6,2,1)
