University of San Francisco Athletics

SAN FRANCISCO – Bernardo Saraiva netted the Dons' only point as San Francisco men's tennis fell to newest conference foe, Pacific, 4-1 at the Cal Club Tuesday afternoon.

USF's junior from Lisbon, Portugal, picked up his point in resounding fashion from the No. 1 singles position. He downed Pacific's Daniel Alameh 7-5, 6-1 from the top spot of the match. With the victory, Saraiva moves to 9-3 in the dual match season, and 15-7 overall including his fall mark. He is riding a four-match winning streak and has taken seven of his last eight, including a win over No. 60 Facundo Lugones of TCU.

The Tigers took three other singles points, at Nos. 2, 3, and 4 along with sweeping the doubles point to start the day.  The Dons have lost their last four meetings with Pacific, dating back to a 4-2 win over the Tigers Feb. 7, 2010.

With the loss, USF moves to 8-6 on the season and remains winless (0-2 WCC) in conference action. Pacific evens its record to 6-6 in its first-ever West Coast Conference match.

Next for USF is a trip to Hawaii to face two stout competitors. The Dons will face No. 18 Oklahoma State Monday at 3 p.m. PT, before meeting up with Hawaii Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT.
 

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Pacific 4, San Francisco 1
March 11 | California Tennis Club | San Francisco
 
Singles | Order of finish: unknown
No. 1 – Bernardo Saraiva (USF) def. Daniel Alameh (Pacific); 7-5, 6-1
No. 2 – Sem Verbeek (Pacific) def. Nils Skajaa (USF); 7-5, 6-3
No. 3 – Miguel Diaz (Pacific) def. James Tallman (USF); 6-4, 6-4
No. 4 – Denis Stolyarov (Pacific) def. Thomas Takemoto (USF); 6-3, 6-4
No. 5 – Rich Van Hout vs. Ben Mirkin (Pacific); DNF
No. 6 – Germain Bahri (USF) vs. Alex Hamilton (Pacific); DNF
 
Doubles | Order of finish: unknown
No. 1 – Alameh/Brand (Pacific) def. Saraiva/Skajaa (USF); 8-7(5)
No. 2 – Stolyarov/Verbeek (Pacific) def. Takemoto/Tallman (USF); 7-5
No. 3 – Diaz/Hamilton (Pacific) def. Brockstedt/Tan (USF); 8-2