MURFREESBORO - The CU men's tennis suffered a tough loss to West Virginia Wesleyan University on Saturday afternoon. The Hawks picked up one doubles win and two wins on the singles side but fell 6-3 in the non-conference match up. Chowan drops to 4-7 on the year after Saturday's loss. 

CU's Sasha Kirsanov and Ivan Doubograev picked up an 8-4 doubles win in the second seeded doubles match. On the singles side, Pedro Aiala and Danilo Galovic outlasted their opponents at the #1 and #4 singles mactches but it was WVWU who would go away with the win. 

Aiala hung on to beat Douglas Oliviero 4-6, 6-4 (10-8) at the #1 singles spot. Doubograev dropped the #2 singles match to Ed Cusevs 7-5, 6-2 while Kirsanov lost 6-1, 6-0 to Aitor Roparaz in the #3 singles. 

Galovic took the first set against WVWU's Nathan Saville 6-4 but dropped the second set 2-6. He edged Saville in a third set tie break 7-6 (8) to take the match. Scott Van Eck dropped the #5 singles match 6-0, 6-0 to Joel Izquierdo while Jaquese Williams fell to Jack Walden in the #6 singles match, 6-3, 6-1. 

Doubles Match Scores
#1 Aiala/Galovic vs. Izquierdo/Reparaz (L) 8-3
#2 Doubograev/Kirsanov vs. Saville/Oliviero (W) 8-4
#3 Van Eck/Williams vs. Cusevs/Walden (L) 8-3