SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – The University of the Incarnate Word men's tennis team dropped their first match of the year on Sunday afternoon at UT-San Antonio, 5-2. (Box Score)

The Cardinals (2-1) and Roadrunners (3-1) scored the match with the three doubles matches counting as one point.  UTSA won at #1 and #2 doubles while the duo of Tucker Brown (New Braunfels/New Braunfels HS) and Luke Trautmann (San Antonio/Health Careers) won at #3 doubles, 8-4 over Eric Buchalter and Hugo Guanais.

In singles play, the Cardinals played a number of tight contests, but only came out on top of two of them.  Jair Assuncao (Londrina, Brazil/Carmina Grabner) won at #2 singles 6-4, 6-4 over Diogo Casa and Brandon Davis (New Braunfels/New Braunfels HS) won in straight sets at #5 singles by a score of 6-3, 6-3 over Buchalter.  Mario Jakovljevic (Osijek, Croatia/Davor Hilas) nearly pulled off the victory at #3 singles, but fell in three sets 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 10-7 to Tyler Brown.

The Cardinals are back in action on Friday at 2 p.m. at home against Tyler Junior College.
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