March 23, 2001

MARTIN, Tenn. - Samford spilt a pair of tennis matches at Tennessee Martin on Friday. The Bulldog women took a 4-3 victory while the Skyhawk men won 5-2.

David Misner ran his record to 9-6 on the season by defeating UTM's Peter Allnutt 6-2, 6-2 whilr Raphael Bohli also moved to 9-6 by defeating Paulo Hexsel 6-3, 6-0. UT-Martin took the doubles point by taking two of the three sets and then won the other four singles matches to secure the victory and improve to 4-4 on the year. Samford dropped to 6-11.

On the women's side, Courtney Collins (8-8) defeated Masomi Yamamoto 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 in the final match to give Samford the narrow 4-3 victory. Once again, UTM took the doubles point, but Emily Nunnally, Hermien du Toit, and Brooke Bryant gave the Bulldogs wins at positions 3-6 to move the Samford to 7-9 on the season while UT-Martin dropped to 2-5. Du Toit's victory keeps her perfect on the season with a 5-0 single's record.

Women
Samford 4, UT-Martin 3

Singles:
Martha Montano (UTM) def. Stanka Ilkova (SU) 6-1, 6-1
Karla Azuara (UTM) def. Katherine Jayroe (SU) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6
Emily Nunnally (SU) def. Ana Bakran (UTM) 6-4, 6-2
Courtney Collins (SU) def. Masomi Yamamoto (UTM) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6
Hermien du Toit (SU) def. Georgina Argaez (UTM)
Brooke Bryant (SU) def. Olivia Shipley (UTM) by default

Doubles:
Azuara/Yamamoto (UTM) def. Ilkova/Collins (SU) 8-5
Nunnally/du Toit (SU) def. Montan0/Bakran (UTM) 8-5
Argaez/Shipley (UTM) def. Jayroe/Upp (SU) 8-2

Men
UT-Martin 5, Samford 2

Singles:
David Misner (SU) def. Peter Allnutt (UTM) 6-2, 6-2
Tom Wride (UTM) def. Chuck Haddox (SU) by default
Raphael Bohli (SU) def. Paulo Hexsel (UTM) 6-3, 6-0
Danilo Castro (UTM) def. Travis Johnson (SU) 6-4, 6-3
DeWit Stegmann (UTM) def. Clivie Yeo (SU) 6-3, 6-1
Lucas Tregansin (UTM) def. Colin Thompson (SU) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1

Doubles:
Wride/Castro (UTM) def. Misner/Bohli (SU) 8-6
Haddox/Yeo (SU) def. Allnutt/Hexsel (UTM) 8-6
Stegmann/Clark (UTM) def. Thompson/Johnson (SU) 8-3