USD Men's Tennis 1994

TOREROS SECOND AT wees USD went head-to-head with Pepperdine in last year's singles, doubles and team West Coast Conference Tennis Championships and came up short in each. In the singles junior Fredrik Axsater won 4 matches to reach the finals where he lost a 3-setter to Pepperdine's Charles Auffray. Axsater, who had advanced to the final for the first time, defeated Gonzaga's Jon Kinlock 6-3, 6-0, Portland's Andrew Cosgrove 6-2, 6-2, Pep's Ari Nathan 6-1 , 6-4, and Pepperdine's Sergio Rico 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Against Auffray, the #1WCC seed, Fredrik won the first set 6-3,then lost 6- 3, 6-1 . Also making the quarters were Ignacio Martinez and Kevin Bradley. In the doubles final USD's #1 team of Martinez and Bradley were a set up and 4-all in the second with Pepperdine's Ari Nathan and Cary Lothringer, the nation's 5th-ranked team, before fading . The final score was 6-7, 6-4, 6-1. Final team standings: Pepperdine 93, San Diego 78, St. Mary's 40, Portland 35, LMU 18, USF 16, Santa Clara 14 and Gonzaga 4.

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