Feb. 1, 2009

The George Mason men's tennis team lost its second consecutive match, Saturday night, indoors at the Burke Racket Club, falling 6-1 to the Liberty Flames.

The Flames opened the match with a sweep of the doubles matches to take a 1-0 advantage. Liberty's Giancarlo Lemmi and Clay Cypert defeated the Patriots top pairing of Brian Fitzgerald and Daniel Schneider, 8-4. The match at No. 2 doubles was a closely contested match, but the Flames' duo of Chad Simpson and Georgio Machado took the contest 8-5, over Jordan Lipstock and Jorge Osuna.

The lone point for the Patriots came from top player Brian Fitzgerald. He defeated Clay Cypert 7-5, 6-3. In other singles action, Freshman Jorge Osuna lost his opening set, but won the second set 6-3 to send the match to a tie-breaker set where he eventually lost 10-5.

1. Fitzgerald, Brian (Mason) def. CYPERT, Clay (LIBERTYM) 7-5, 6-3
2. STEYN, Louis (LIBERTYM) def. Osuna, Jorge (Mason) 6-3, 3-6, 10-5
3. LEMMI, Giancarlo (LIBERTYM) def. Schneider, Daniel (Mason) 6-1, 6-4
4. SIMPSON, Chad (LIBERTYM) def. Lipstock, Jordan (Mason) 6-0, 6-2
5. MACHADO, Gregorio (LIBERTYM) def. Sanghvi, Arjun (Mason) 6-1, 6-1
6. REYES, Juan (Liberty) def. NAYEEM, Irman (Mason) 6-0, 6-1
1. CYPERT, Clay/LEMMI, Giancarlo (LIB) def. FITZGERALD, Brian/SCHNEIDER, Daniel (Mason) 8-4
2. SIMPSON, Chad/MACHADO, Gregorio (LIB) def. LIPSTOCK, Jordan/OSUNA, Jorge (Mason) 8-5
3. STEYN, Louis/REYES, Juan (LIB) def. SANGHVI, Arjun/SCHNEIDER, Zack (Mason) 8-0