OJAI, Calif. - The No. 1-ranked
UCLA Bruins topped the No. 5 USC Trojans by a score of 4-2 to claim the 2013 Pac-12 Men’s Tennis Championship in front of a standing-room only crowd at Libbey Park Saturday. The Bruins earned their first men’s team tournament title with the team championship format in its second year.
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USC Trojans started the match claiming the doubles point earning wins on courts three and one. Max de Vroome and Eric Johnson claimed the first match by a score of 8-6 over the Bruins’ duo of Clay Thompson and Dennis Mkrtchian. The doubles point was claimed quickly as the 40th-ranked pair of Yannick Hanfmann and Ray Sarmiento upset No. 34 duo Marcos Giron and Dennis Novikov again 8-6.
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