The College fell to No. 29 Boise State, 5-2, before defeating CAA foe James Madison, 6-1, in a Sunday doubleheader at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center.

Williamsburg (2/22/09) - The William and Mary men's tennis team split a Sunday doubleheader at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center and narrowly missed upsetting No. 29-ranked Boise State in the morning match. The College dropped a 5-2 contest to the Broncos, but narrowly missed winning a hotly contested doubles point as well as dropping a pair of three-set matches in the back-and-forth affair. In the night cap, the College improved to 2-0 in the CAA with a 6-1 victory over James Madison. W&M moved to 11-6 overall on the season with the split.

Boise State escaped the College's upset bid during the exciting morning match. After BSU won at the No. 3 doubles slot, senior Dominic Pagon and freshman Ilja Orre defeated Clancy Shields and Stanely Sarapanich at the No. 2 position, 8-5, to even the pairs battle at one match each. The initial point of the match came down to a barn-burner at the No. 1 between the Tribe tandem of junior Keziel Juneau and sophomore Sebastien Vidal and the Broncos' Kean Feeder and James Meredith. Juneau and Vidal rallied from an early break deficit to take a 3-2 lead winning three straight games, including two breaks. The Tribe maintained its break advantage and had a chance to serve for the match on two occasions leading 7-6 and 8-7, but the Boise State pair broke back each time to force a tiebreaker. In the tiebreaker, the Broncos took a 4-2 lead, before W&M claimed three straight points to garner at 5-4 advantage. The momentum was short lived though as Feeder and Meredith won four of the final five points to claim the match and the doubles point.

The Tribe came out of the gates fast in singles, taking a set advantage at four of the six positions. After a Boise State victory at the No. 2 spot pushed the lead to 2-0, Vidal pulled the Tribe back with a straight sets win at the No. 4 position over Cristian Hodel. He broke late in the first set and served at the 6-4 win, before rolling to a 6-2 triumph in the second set. It was Vidal's 12th singles win of the season.

The Broncos pulled to within a single win of the team victory with victory at the No. 3 slot as the final three matches at the No. 1, No. 5 and No. 6 positions went into decisive third sets. In a power clash at the top singles spot, Juneau took the opening set from No. 62-ranked Clancy Shields in a tiebreaker. The Tribe junior fell behind a break early in the opening set, but evened the match at five, cashing in his fourth break point of the sequence. In the tiebreaker, Shields jumped out to a 4-2 lead, but Juneau responded by winning five of the final six points to take the tiebreaker, 7-5. Shields, who knocked off the No. 6-ranked player in the country from top-ranked Virginia on Saturday, evened the contest with a 6-1 win in the second set. In the decisive third, the Boise State player garnered an early break and carried it out for a 6-4 victory, clinching the team win for the Broncos.

At the bottom two singles positions, the Tribe earned a split as Orre tallied a three-set win at the No. 5 spot. After rolling to a win in the first set, 6-1, Orre was broken late in the second set and his opponent, Sarapanich took the set, 7-5. The Green and Gold rookie showed some moxie though by steam-rolling Sarapanich in the third set, 6-0. Sophomore Ben Wirth jumped out to a set lead at the No. 6 winning the opening set in a tiebreaker. Boise State's Matt Solomon rallied to take the second set, 6-1, before he took the final set of the afternoon in a tiebreaker as well.

In the night cap, the sophomore pairing of Varun Pandit and Wirth gave the Tribe an early advantage with their first win as a team, 8-1, over James Madison's Ville Maaranen and Tommi Nissinen at the No. 3 spot. The College's top tandem of Juneau and Vidal tallied their 13th win of the season, clinching the pairs point with an 8-4 victory over Mike Smith and Matt King. At the No. 2 slot, Pagon and Orre rounded out the Tribe sweep with an 8-2 win over Jared Robinson and Brian Rubenstein. It marked the W&M duo's second triumph of the day as it improved to 8-3 overall on the year.

Orre quickly extended the lead to 2-0 with a straight sets win over fellow Finnish player Ville Maaranen at the No. 4 position. The Tribe rookie, who celebrated his 21st birthday on Sunday, rolled to a 6-1 victory in the first set, before winning the final five games of the second to pull out a 6-2 victory. It marked Orre's fourth straight singles triumph as he upped his singles win total to 10.

Pandit notched his first victory of the year at the No. 6 spot in straight sets over Matt King. The JMU player was up a break at 5-4 in the first set, but Pandit won the final nine games of the match to tally the 7-5, 6-0 win. Senior Marwan Ramadan clinched the W&M victory with a 7-6, 6-1 triumph at the No. 2 slot over Jared Robinson. The Tribe senior snapped a five-match losing streak in downing an All-CAA player from last season for his eighth singles win of the season.

Juneau avenged a loss during the fall season with a straight sets win over Smith at the top position. He broke his JMU foe in the final game of the first set for a 6-4 win, before claiming the match with a 7-6 tiebreaker victory in the second. Juneau improved his team-leading singles ledger to 16-8 overall, including a 12-5 mark in dual-match competition at the No. 1 slot.

Pagon rounded out the Tribe singles victories with three-set triumph at the No. 3 spot. He and Nissinen split the first two sets, 3-6, 6-3, before the Tribe senior took the third-set super tiebreaker, 11-9, to improve to 12-4 in dual-match competition this season.

The Green and Gold will wrap up its brief three-match homestand when it hosts its second Big Ten foe of the season in Northwestern on Friday, Feb. 27. Match time is slated for 6 p.m. at the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. Last season, the College recorded a 6-1 win over the Wildcats in Williamsburg.

#29 Boise State 5, #67 William and Mary 2

Singles

No. 1 - #62 Clancy Shields (BSU) def. Keziel Juneau (W&M) - 6-7, 6-1, 6-4

No. 2 - #57 Kean Feeder (BSU) def. Marwan Ramadan (W&M) - 6-1, 6-3

No. 3 - James Meredith (BSU) def.Dominic Pagon (W&M) - 7-6, 6-4

No. 4 - Sebastien Vidal (W&M) def. Cristian Hodel (BSU) - 6-4, 6-2

No. 5 - Ilja Orre (W&M) def. Stanley Sarapanich (BSU) - 6-1, 5-7, 6-0

No. 6 - Matt Solomon (BSU) def. Ben Wirth (W&M) - 6-7, 6-1, 7-6

Finishing Order: 2, 4, 3, 1*, 5, 6

Doubles

No. 1 - Feeder/Meredith (BSU) def. Juneau/Vidal (W&M) - 9-8 (6)

No. 2 - Pagon/Orre (W&M) def. C.Shields/Sarapanich (BSU) - 8-5

No. 3 - B.Shields/Solomon (BSU) def. Pandit/Wirth (W&M) - 8-2

Finishing Order: 3, 2, 1*

#67 William and Mary 6, James Madison 1

Singles

No. 1 - Keziel Juneau (W&M) def. Mike Smith (JMU) - 6-4, 7-6

No. 2 - Marwan Ramadan (W&M) def. Jared Robinson (JMU) - 7-6, 6-1

No. 3 - Dominic Pagon (W&M) def. Tommi Nissinen (JMU) - 3-6, 6-3, 11-9

No. 4 - Ilja Orre (W&M) def. Ville Maaranen (JMU) - 6-1, 6-2

No. 5 - Brian Rubenstein (JMU) def. Ben Wirth (W&M) - 6-3, 6-7, 10-8

No. 6 - Varun Pandit (W&M) def. Matt King (JMU) - 7-5, 6-0

Finishing Order: 4, 6, 2*, 1, 3, 5

Doubles

No. 1 - Juneau/Vidal (W&M) def. Smith/King (JMU) - 8-4

No. 2 - Pagon/Orre (W&M) def. Robinson/Rubenstein (JMU) - 8-2

No. 3 - Pandit/Wirth (W&M) def. Maaranen/Nissinen (JMU) - 8-1

Finishing Order: 3, 1*, 2