For Immediate Release: Friday, October 25, 2002
Contact: Dave Geringer, Sports Information Director

BRONCS ADVANCE AT ITA

FORT WORTH, TX- One men's singles player and one doubles team from The University of Texas-Pan American advanced in consolation round action on the first day of the Omni Hotels/Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southwest Regional at Texas Christian University Friday.

Junior Tom Mangelschots (Limburg, Belgium/KA 2 HS) lost his first round singles match to Robert Searle of Rice, 6-4, 6-3, but advanced in consolation play by defeating Juan Pablo Alatorre of Lamar, 6-3, 6-3. UTPA's doubles team of freshmen Nik Porter (Tunbridge Wells, England/Bennett Memorial School) and D.J. Zhanel (Ennis, TX/Ennis HS) lost their first round match to Jonas Hoglund and Joe Olfindo of Texas-San Antonio, 8-2, and will begin consolation round play Saturday.

Sophomores Filip Koziell (Calgary, AB/Bishop Carroll HS) and Jeremy Salvo (Coquitlam, BC/Centennial Secondary), won their first round doubles match against Ryan Davies and Dave Knaszak of Texas Tech, 8-4, then fell to ninth-seeded Daniel Scholten and Fabrizio Sestini of Texas Christian, 9-7. Texas-Pan American's other doubles team, Mangelschots and freshman Oliver Steil (Brunssum, The Netherlands/AF North International School), defeated Gareth DuCray and David Plasencia of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 8-4, then fell to Texas Tech's Diederick DeGroot and Radek Nijaki, 8-1.

In singles, Koziell defeated Jason Gould of Baylor, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, and then lost to Pete Stroer of Texas, 6-4, 6-2. Salvo got a first round bye, and then lost to Ricardo Almeida of Texas-San Antonio, 6-4, 7-6, before dropping his consolation match to Loren Collins of TAMU-CC, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3. Steil got a first round bye, and then lost to third-seeded Zoltan Papp of Baylor, 6-2, 6-0, before falling to Michael Tarkowski of Louisiana-Lafayette, 6-2, 6-1. Porter lost to Daniel Scholten of TCU, 6-4, 6-1 and Ian Vazquez of Texas-Arlington, 6-0, 6-2. Zhanel lost to Mike Garcia of Baylor, 6-0, 6-1 and then fell to Jason Hoglund of UTSA, 6-0, 6-1.

"We played OK, but it's a tough tournament," said UTPA Head Coach Todd Chapman. "We played well in some matches, and not so well in others. Filip and Jeremy played well in their doubles matches against a good team from Texas Tech and against the ninth-seeded team from TCU."

Mangleschots will play in the consolation round of singles and Porter and Zhanel in the consolation round of doubles Saturday.

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