MISSOULA — Idaho State survived a Montana win within the doubles spherical to ship the Grizzly males’s tennis staff again to Missoula on the fallacious finish of a 5-2 Large Sky Convention loss in Pocatello on Sunday at Reed Health club.
Montana falls to 9-8 and 1-3 in convention play after going 0-2 on its two-match street journey south on I-15. Idaho State improves to 7-10 and picks up its first league win at 1-2.
The Griz suffered the bizarre final result of gaining momentum with an enormous tiebreaker win within the opening doubles spherical however then occurring to drop 5 of the six singles matches within the loss.
Sophomore Gustav Theilgaard was a winner for the Griz in each rounds, pairing up with Tom Bittner on courtroom three to clinch the doubles 7-6 (5). He then picked up the one singles win for UM on courtroom one, beating Patrick Kristensen in come-from-behind style 5-7, 6-4, 7-5.
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Montana’s prime doubles pair of Fernando Perez and Guillermo Martin additionally bought a win on courtroom one 6-4 over ISU’s Kramer/Pellegrin pair to say the opening level.
Theilgaard’s win in singles, together with the doubles level, made it a 2-2 ballgame following wins on courts two and three.
Montana had its possibilities, although. The Bengals clinched the win on courtroom 4, the place Bittner compelled a 3rd set. ISU’s Wikus Robbertese rebounded from a second-set loss, nevertheless, to win 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 and seal the staff victory.
Guillermo Martin additionally compelled a 3rd set on courtroom six, however it was too little, too late, because the UM sophomore fell in a superbreaker 5-7, 7-5, 0-1 (7).
Montana now prepares to return residence for a two-match homestand in every week’s time, internet hosting Idaho and Portland State on April 7 and eight on the Peak Racquet Membership in Missoula.