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Spartans Defeat Brandeis For Fifth Place at UAA Championship

Spartans Defeat Brandeis For Fifth Place at UAA Championship

From Case Western Reserve University Athletics

The No. 12 Case Western Reserve men's tennis team won two doubles matches and five singles matches for a 7-2 win over No. 29 Brandeis University in the fifth-place match of the UAA Men's Tennis Championship.

The Spartans took a 2-1 lead entering singles after convincing wins by their No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams. Juniors CJ Krimbill (Scottsdale, Ariz./Desert Mountain) and Louis Stuerke (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Northwest) won 8-4 at No. 1, and senior Will Drougas (Roanoke, Va./Salem) and junior Viswajit Simhadri (Saratoga, Calif./Lynbrook) cruised to an 8-1 victory at No. 2.

Krimbill posted a 6-3, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles to finish the UAA Championship undefeated with 3-0 marks in both singles and doubles.

Simhadri earned a 6-4, 7-5 win at No. 3 singles to post a 4-2 record at the UAA tournament, 2-1 in singles and doubles.

Sophomore Joshua Dughi (Miami, Fla./Ransom Everglades) earned his second win at No. 6 singles in as many matches with a 6-3, 6-4 win.

Stuerke won a tough three-setter at No. 4 singles, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 at No. 4 and freshman Andrew Komarov (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Adlai E. Stevenson) posted a 6-4, 6-3 win at No. 5 singles.

The Spartans completed the 2014-15 season with a 17-10 record.