Date Posted: 4/9/2008

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 9, 2008) - The 39th-ranked ETSU men's tennis completed its fifth consecutive undefeated conference regular season and earned its third straight Atlantic Sun regular season title, defeating the USC Upstate Spartans, 7-0 on Wednesday afternoon. With the victory the Bucs improve to 20-3 overall and 10-0 in conference action, while the Spartans fall to 14-6, 7-2.

The Bucs claimed the doubles point and earned a 1-0 advantage as Oscar Posada (Valencia, Venezuela) and Alex Ahlgren (Tyreso, Sweden) blanked Leandro Osorio and Sebastian Gonzales-Orbegoso, 8-0 in the No. 1 position while Sebastian Serrano (Cartagena, Colombia) and Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) defeated Javier Tori and Renzo Airaldi, 8-5 in the No. 2 slot. Competing in the third position Lisandro Picardo (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Colombia) won by default over Jack Roux and Sandy Franz.

ETSU never slowed down as Enrique Olivares defeated Sandy Franz in the No. 1 position, 3-0 before Franz retired due to injury. In the second slot, Predrag Burmazovic (Belgrade, Serbia) dropped Renzo Airaldi, 6-4, 6-1, while Sebastian Serrano defeated Jack Roux, 7-5, 6-2 in the third position. Senior Lisandro Picardo finished the regular season undefeated, bringing his spring record to 17-0, dropping Javier Tori, 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 4 slot. Competing in the fifth position Oscar Posada cruised past Sebastian Gonzales-Orbegoso, 6-4, 6-3 while Daniel Isaza breezed by Arnaldo Lovera, 6-2, 6-2.

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