Men's Tennis tops St. Olaf, 5-4

W, 5-4
St. Olaf (M), April 16, 2008

St. Thomas won four of six singles matches to pull out a 5-4 victory over St. Olaf in Wednesday's men's tennis match at St. Thomas. The Tommies have won six matches in a row to climb to 10-5 overall and 6-2 in the MIAC.

Freshman Arya Vayghan won at first singles and won at first doubles fellow freshman Tyler Rice. UST also got singles wins from Rice, freshman Andy Michels and Kevin Manzel.

The Toms play Thursday at Bethel and can secure a top-three MIAC finish with a win.

UST 5, St. Olaf 4

Singles

--No. 1: Vayghan (UST) def. Pray, 6-1, 6-0
--No. 2: Erie (StO) def. Herding, 7-5, 6-2
--No. 3: Narvaez (StO) def. Tomashek, 6-4, 6-4
--No. 4: Rice (UST) def. Hubbard-Peters, 6-4, 6-2
--No. 5: Manzel (UST) def. Mitchel, 6-2, 6-4
--No. 6: Michels (UST) def. Crnkovich, 6-2, 6-2

Doubles
--No. 1: Vayghan/Rice (UST) def. Pray/Crnkovich, 8-2
--No. 2: Erie/Narvaez (StO) def. Tomashek/Michels, 8-4
--No. 3: Mitchell/Hubbard-Peters (StO) def. Carlson/Herding, 8-5

Drew Carlson battles in his doubles match (Eli Adams photo)

Ben Herding had two hard-fought matches. (Eli Adams photo)

Arya Vayghan

Arya Vayghan and Tyler Rice encoiurage each other in their doubles victory. (Eli Adams photo)