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East Carolina Nips College of Charleston, 4-3
 
Pirates Take Doubles Point, Splits Six Singles Matches To Sweep South Carolina Road Swing

 
Bryan Oakley won both his singles and doubles matches against the Cougars Thursday.
 
Bryan Oakley won both his singles and doubles matches against the Cougars Thursday.
 
 

March 13, 2008

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A convincing doubles sweep and singles victories by Henrique Viana, Stephen Whitwell and Bryan Oakley lifted East Carolina to a 4-3 non-conference win over the College of Charleston Thursday afternoon at the Patriots Point Tennis Center.

The Pirates, who extended their consecutive match win streak to six straight, improved to 11-6 on the year while the Cougars dropped to 5-7.

East Carolina set the tone early as Jaroslav Horvath and Viana teamed up for an 8-2 triumph over Ross Moyer and Joe Nicolazzi at the No. 1 position. The Pirates followed by adding similar 8-4 victories by tandems Aleksey Kochetov/Henrik Skalmerud and Oakley/Whitwell over Don Murray/Steven Myers and Mickael Boyer/Christopher Carlton at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, to take a 1-0 lead.

In singles play, ECU picked up victories at the No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 slots as Viana dismissed Myers (6-1, 6-3), Whitwell defeated Carlton (6-2, 6-0) and Oakley disposed of Moyer (6-1, 6-3).

Charleston used wins by Omer Abramovich over Horvath (6-0, 6-1) No. 1, Boyer over Kochetov (6-4, 4-6, 10-6) at No. 2 and Nicolazzi over Skalmerud (7-6, 6-1) at No. 4 to capture the other three matches.

The Pirates will return to action Wednesday when they travel to UNC Greensboro to face the Spartans in a match scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m.

EAST CAROLINA 4, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 3
Singles Play
No. 1 - Omer Abramovich (CofC) def. Jaroslav Horvath (ECU); 6-0, 6-1
No. 2 - Mickael Boyer (CofC) def. Aleksey Kochetov (ECU); 6-4, 4-6, 10-6
No. 3 - Henrique Viana (ECU) def. Steven Myers (CofC); 6-1, 6-3
No. 4 - Joe Nicolazzi (CofC) def. Henrik Skalmerud (ECU); 7-6, 6-1
No. 5 - Stephen Whitwell (ECU) def. Christopher Carlton (CofC); 6-2, 6-0
No. 6 - Bryan Oakley (ECU) def. Ross Moyer (CofC); 6-1, 6-3
Doubles Play
No. 1 - Horvath/Viana (ECU) def. Moyer/Nicolazzi (CofC); 8-2
No. 2 - Kochetov/Skalmerud (ECU) def. Don Murray/Myers (CofC); 8-4
No. 3 - Oakley/Whitwell (ECU) def. Boyer/Carlton (CofC); 8-4
Team Records: East Carolina 11-6, College of Charleston 5-7