No. 4 BYU Defeats No. 3 UNLV 4-3 For Third Place at Conference Championships

No. 1 Singles match goes to tiebreaker in the third set.

April 22, 2000

Albuquerque, N.M. -- In a down to the wire match, BYU defeated UNLV by the score of 4-3 to capture third place at the inaugural Mountain West Conference Men's Tennis Championships today on the courts of the Lobo Tennis Club.

BYU captured the doubles point - taking the No. 1 and No. 3 matches, both in close matches that could have gone either way. The No. 3 doubles went to a tie-breaker where BYU's duo of David White and Jeff Olsen took the match 9-8 (5).

Both schools battled at each position. UNLV took the No. 2, No. 4 and No. 5 matches The match was decided at the No. 1 singles where BYU's Damien Ward defeated UNLV's Vladimier Pavicevic by the scores of 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (9).

The championship match is slated for 2 p.m. pitting No. 1 seeded San Diego State against No. 2 seeded and host New Mexico.

Singles
1. Vladimir Pavicevic (UNLV) vs. Damien Ward (BYU), 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (9)
2. Nenad Zivkovic (UNLV) def. Carlos Lozano (BYU), 7-5, 7-6 (6)
3. Gert Vilms (BYU) def. Danny Erez (UNLV) 6-3, 6-3
4. Tyler Roberts (UNLV) def. David White (BYU), 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
5. Greg Skorin (UNLV) def. Anton Rudjuk (BYU), 6-4, 6-1
6. Jeff Olsen (BYU) def. Robbie Parlade (UNLV), 6-3, 6-4

Doubles
1. Ward/Vilms (BYU) def. Zivkovic/Skorin (UNLV), 9-7
2. Pavicevic/Erez (UNLV) def. Lozano/Rudjuk (BYU), 8-6
3. White/Olsen (BYU) def. Parlade/Roberts (UNLV), 9-8 (5)