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#67 Men's Tennis Knocked Off By Portland

Claremont, Calif. - The No. 67 Pacific men's tennis team fell in the quarterfinals of the 2016 West Coast Conference Tennis Championship Thursday, 4-2 to Portland, at Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont.

No. 113 Sem Verbeek, the WCC Player of the Year, posted a straight-set win in singles to wrap his Pacific career on a 10-match win streak. The Tigers also took the doubles point, but fell to Portland for the second time this season.

At second doubles, Alex Giannini & Daniel Alameh posted a 6-3 win over Alex Wallace & Kent Andreasen. The No. 85 pairing of Verbeek & Jose Chamba downed Mike Pervolarakis & Mathieu Garcia, 6-3, to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead. The third doubles match of 3. Miguel Diaz & Bernardo Oliveira versus Felix Fan & Pierre Garcia went unfinished with Portland leading 4-3.

In singles, Verbeek wrapped up his match quickly, sweeping Pervolarakis, 6-3, 6-3, to move to 10-0 on the year against WCC competition.

But the Pilots answered back as Fan won his fifth singles match over Giannini, 6-2, 6-4 and Carlos Donat prevailed 6-3, 6-2, at sixth singles over Oliveira to even the match at 2-2.

The Pilots positioned themselves to take the match by posting first-set tie-breaker wins on three courts. In fourth singles, Wallace topped Diaz 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 and Mathieu Garcia clinched the match at second singles with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 win over Alameh.

At third singles, Chamba went unfinished against Pierre Garcia, with Garcia taking a first set tie-breaker 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, unfinished.

The Tigers fall to 14-13 overall and fall short of a third-straight WCC semifinal appearance.

Portland improves to 16-7 overall and will face top seed No. 30 San Diego on Friday.

Verbeek finished the 2015-16 campaign at 19-2 overall in singles and 15-5 in doubles. In his four years with the Tigers, he won 46 singles and 54 doubles matches.

Fellow senior Daniel Alameh finishes with 48 singles victories in four years, with 47 doubles wins.



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Players Mentioned

Daniel Alameh

Daniel Alameh

5' 10"
Senior
Jose Chamba

Jose Chamba

5' 7"
Sophomore
Miguel Diaz

Miguel Diaz

5' 4"
Junior
Alex Giannini

Alex Giannini

6' 4"
Junior
Bernardo Oliveira

Bernardo Oliveira

5' 10"
Sophomore
Sem Verbeek

Sem Verbeek

6' 3"
Senior

Players Mentioned

Daniel Alameh

Daniel Alameh

5' 10"
Senior
Jose Chamba

Jose Chamba

5' 7"
Sophomore
Miguel Diaz

Miguel Diaz

5' 4"
Junior
Alex Giannini

Alex Giannini

6' 4"
Junior
Bernardo Oliveira

Bernardo Oliveira

5' 10"
Sophomore
Sem Verbeek

Sem Verbeek

6' 3"
Senior