March 26, 2009

The George Mason men's tennis team dropped its away match at Howard University, 5-2. The Patriots and the Bison saw three matches go to a third set or tie-breaker. Howard took two of those matches to improve to 2-9, the Patriots fall to 2-7.

Mason took the doubles point winning the top two doubles matches. The Patriots Brian Fitzgerald and Dan Schneider defeated Howard's top team of Michael Gee and Christopher Brown, 8-5. The doubles team is 4-5 on the spring season. The No. 2 team for the Green and Gold Jorge Osuna and Jordan Lipstock won their second match this season after defeating the Bison's Omar Haloui and Chad Jones, 8-4.

Earning the Patriots second point was freshman Jorge Osuna, winning his match at No. 2 singles, 7-5, 0-6, 11-6. Osuna record improves to 3-4 at the No. 2 position this season.

Howard 5, George Mason 2
March 24, 2009
Washington, DC
Singles
No. 1 - Michael Gee def. Brian Fitzgerald (Mason) - 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 - Jorge Osuna (Mason) def. Omar Haloui, 7-5, 0-6, 11-6
No. 3 - Christopher Brown def. Dan Schneider (Mason) - 6-4, 6-3
No. 4 - George Diggs def. Jordan Lipstock (Mason), 7-6, 6-3, 6-4
No. 5 - Chad Jones def. Arjun Sanghvi (Mason), 1-6, 7-5, 6-1
No. 6 - Tonique Merrill def. Matt Vaughn (Mason), 6-3, 6-3
Doubles
No. 1 - Fitzgerald/D. Schneider (Mason) def. Gee/C. Brown, 8-5
No. 2 - Lipstock Osuna (Mason) def. Haloui/Jones, 8-4
No. 3 - Diggs/Merrill def. Vaughn/Nayeem (Mason), 8-3