Jacks, who kept the rankings in the battle between No. 1 and No. 2 in the Big Sky preseason polls, was a narrow victory in the Deflated Doubles match and a four-straight set victory in a single.
The losses fell to 11-4, 1-1 overall at Conference Play after beating Sacramento State in California last week. Northern Arizona improves to 9-6 overall, spending perfect 4-0 in league play after consecutive home shutouts from Weber State with Weber State in the daytime.
“I think trying to beat Now in tennis with Flagstaff is one of the toughest jobs in college sports. They won’t lose a game at home. I can promise you that. They’re really good,” the head coach said. Jason Brown.
“I thought we did all the right thing to win. I think we took them off the hook with a double. We managed to get all three spots in my mind, but things bouncing back the wrong way for us. Then they got a little hotter and used that momentum on the singles.
Montana started the match at the top Tom Bitner and Eivind Tandberg He put the Griz in the driver’s seat in the opening round with a 6-3 victory in Court 2 doubles. However, the loss of the court’s grizz left the opening point hanging in the results of um freshmen’s court 3 Duncan McCall and Johnny Wilkinson They took an early lead of 4-3.
The Lumberjacks’ Agnskyy/Katsuda pair defeated Grizzly Serve to give them a 5-4 lead and ultimately gave them a 6-4 victory to score doubles points, taking the lead of the 1-0 team heading for singles.
In the singles, Montana won at least four first set games on four of the six courts, while the Lumberjacks won all six sets and started the round.
Junior Tom Bitner And seniors Fernando Perez They each got a second set and fought one and four respectively in the third set that forced a decision. By then, Jacks had done enough to score a victory in the remaining four courts, but Bitner and Perez had fallen to the superbreaker.
Montana also didn’t have a clincher on Court 2 on Friday in UM’s victory over the Grand Canyon Baltazar Wiger-Nordas He was forced to get injured after retiring.
The Griz will prepare for another big empty road trip next weekend, before UM heading south on I-15 to Utah and Weber states in Ogden to play four of the final five games of the regular season in Missoula.
