March 12, 2002

MURRAY, Ky. - The Samford Men's and Women's tennis teams dropped their matches at Murray State on Tuesday.

The Racer men took a 5-2 victory to move to 6-4 on the season while Samford dropped to 8-7. Raphael Bohli improved to 10-2 on the year with a three-set victory at number two singles. Joey Jensen got the Bulldogs second point with a straight-sets victory at number six. Murray State took the doubles point and four singles matches.

On the women's side, Murray State took all seven points to move to 6-4 on the year. The Samford women were swept for the first time this season as they drop to 1-4 on the year.

The men will return to action on Wednesday as they host Florida A&M in a 3 p.m. match. Both teams will play on Friday in an important Atlantic Sun match against Georgia State at 2:30 p.m.

Murray State 5, Samford 2

Singles
1. Nikola Aracic (MSU) def. David Misner (SU) 6-2, 6-4
2. Raphael Bohli (SU) def. Freddy Sundsten (MSU) 6-3, 6-7, 10-6
3. Thiago Gondim (MSU) def. Chuck Haddox (SU) 6-0, 6-4
4. Alex Hoyem (MSU) def. Travis Johnson (SU) 6-3, 6-7, 10-6
5. Zak Bahri (MSU) def. Colin Thompson (SU) 6-3, 6-0
6. Joey Jensen (SU) def. Mike Schmidbauer (MSU) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles:
1. Aracic/Sundsten (MSU) def. Misner/Bohli (SU) 8-4
2. Gondim/Hoyem (MSU) def. Thompson/Johnson (SU) 8-4
3. Schmidbauer/Bahri (MSU) def. Haddox/Jensen (SU) 8-4