February 27, 1999

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas Tech men's tennis team fell to 32nd ranked TCU 6-1 today at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center in Fort Worth. It was the team's second loss on the the season. The Red Raiders record now stands at 5-2.

The match started with a hard fought battle for the doubles point. The No. 3 duo of Adam Baranowski and Petar Danolic defeated Scott Eddins and Sebastain Iannariello 8-6. However, the No. 1 team of Ryan Shupe and Dustin Hawk and the No. 2 squad of Jevgenij Cariov and Borut Marintcevic both dropped closes matches to lose the point. Their scores were 9-7 and 8-7 respectively.

Hawk was the lone singles winner for the men's team at the No. 6 position. He defeated Justin Gagnon by the score of 6-2, 6-4. Baranowski playing at No. 4 singles dropped his first match of the season by losing to Edins 6-2, 6-2.

Texas Tech will look to rebound tomorrow when they face the University of Texas-Arlington at 1:30 p.m. at Arlington.

TCU 6	Texas Tech 1
Singles
No. 1 Esteban Carril (TCU) d. Ryan Shupe (TTU) 6-3, 6-0
No. 2 Trace Fielding (TCU) d. Borut Martincevic (TTU) 6-3, 7-5 (5)
No. 3 Martin Jirak (TCU) d. Jevgenij Cariov (TTU) 6-4, 6-2
No. 4 Scott Eddins (TCU) d. Adam Baranowski (TTU) 6-2, 6-2
No. 5 Petr Koula (TCU) d. Petar Danolic (TTU) 6-3, 6-2
No. 6 Dustin Hawk (TTU) d. Justin Gagnon (TCU) 6-2, 6-4
Doubles
No. 1 Carril, Jirak (TCU) d. Shupe, Hawk (TTU) 9-7
No. 2 Fielding, Koula (TCU) d. Cariov, Martincevic (TTU) 8-7
No. 3 Baranowski, Danolic (TTU) d. Eddins, Iannariello (TCU) 8-6