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Injuries End Cajuns Winning Streak

CORPUS CHRISTI-Texas-Injuries proved very costly for Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns men's tennis team in two losses at the HEB Classic here Saturday.

The Cajuns are now 6-4 on the season and 1-2 at the HEB Classic.

In the first match, UL Lafayette managed to win only one singles and doubles match. In singles, Marc Castellana defeated Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Shahzeb Niazi 6-3, 6-4. Castellana is now 7-2 on the year.

No. 71-ranked Jakub Ilowski's match with No. 57 Christophe Bergues of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi was not finished after TAMUCC had clinched the victory. Ilowski won the first set 6-3 and dropped the second set 4-6.

In doubles, the Cajuns freshman combo of Amanjot Singh and Evghenii Corduneanu won 8-2.

“We are banged up because of injuries, but we fought extra hard today,” said UL Lafayette head coach Justin McGrath. “You have to give [Texas A&M] Corpus Christi a lot of credit. They played really well and with a lot of spirit.”

In the second match of the day, UT Arlington avenged an earlier loss to the Cajuns with a 4-0 victory. The Cajuns were unable to win a match in the second half of Saturday's action.

Junior Michael Tarkowski dropped his second match of the day with a 6-0, 6-1 loss to Nathan McGregor. Tarkowski has been hampered with a nagging shoulder injury.

Amanjot Singh and Jakub Ilowski did not finish their singles matches after Texas-Arlington had already won the match. Both Cajuns did not finish their matches against TAMUCC either.

Louisiana-Lafayette's Ragin' Cajuns men's tennis team will face Alabama-Birmingham here at the HEB Classic Sunday morning at 8 a.m.

MATCH RESULTS
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 4, Louisiana-Lafayette 1

SINGLES
#1 Jakub Ilowski (UL) vs. #57 Christophe Bergues (TAMUCC) DNF
#2 Michael Tarkowski (UL) l. to Goncalo Figueiredo (TAMUCC) 6-1, 6-2
#3 Amanjot Singh (UL) vs. Luis Moris (TAMUCC) DNF
#4 Marc Castellana (UL) def. Shahzeb Niazi (TAMUCC) 6-3, 6-4
#5 Ivan Kovalev (UL) l. to David Plasencia (TAMUCC) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
#6 Evghenii Corduneanu (UL) l. to Loren Collins (TAMUCC) 6-2, 6-3

DOUBLES
#1 Ilowski/Kovalev (UL) l. to Figueiredo/Moris (TAMUCC) 8-6
#2 Tarkowski/Castellana (UL) l. to Roman/Bergues (TAMUCC) 9-8
#3 Singh/Corduneanu (UL) def. Collins/Oprea (TAMUCC) 8-2

MATCH RESULTS
Texas-Arlington 4, Louisiana-Lafayette 0

SINGLES
#1 Jakub Ilowski (UL) vs. David Corrie (UTA) DNF
#2 Michael Tarkowski (UL) l. to Nathan McGregor (UTA) 6-0, 6-1
#3 Amanjot Singh (UL) vs. Javier Carrillo (UTA) DNF
#4 Ivan Kovalev (UL) l. to Niels Buksik (UTA) 6-1, 6-0
#5 Marc Castellana (UL) vs. Ian Vazquez (UTA) DNF
#6 Evghenii Corduneanu (UL) l. to Sandy Farguharson (UTA) 6-4, 6-4

DOUBLES
#1 Ilowski/Kovalev (UL) l. to Corrie/Buksik (UTA) 8-6
#2 Singh/Corduneanu (UL) l. to McGregor/Farguharson (UTA) 8-5
#3 Tarkowski/Castellana (UL) vs. Goldshuv/Carrillo (UTA) DNF

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