No. 70 Men's Tennis Falls to No. 31 South Florida, 6-1

TAMPA, Fla. – The Brown men's tennis squad fell to nationally ranked University of South Florida Thursday afternoon, 6-1. With the loss, the Bears fall to 10-6 on the season while the Bulls move to 12-4 on the year.

Sophomore Lucas Da Silveira (Incline Village, NV) scored the lone point for Bruno with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Finn Meinecke at number six singles. Senior Brandon Burke (Kingston, Jamaica), and junior Daniel Hirschberg (Westport, Conn.) both pushed their matches to three sets, but ultimately fell in the final set.

The Bears' third doubles squad of Hirschberg and Gregory Garcia (Poway, Calif.) led their match 7-4 but did not finish, as the doubles result had already been determined.

Brown continues its four-game road trip with upcoming Ivy League matches April 5^th and 6^th at Penn and Princeton, both scheduled for 1:00 p.m. starts. The Bears return home again on April 12^th when they take on Columbia in an Ivy League match.

Doubles:
1. To/Da Silveira vs Cid/Gozun 8-3 (USF)
2. Burke/Fife        vs Kalyuzhnny/Gonzalez 8-2 (USF)
3. Hirschberg/Garcia         vs Meinecke/Polarczyk 7-4 (DNF)

Singles:
1. Justin To              vs Roberto Cid 6-2 6-2 (USF)
2. Greg Garcia         vs Vadym Kalyuzhnny 6-4 7-5 (USF)
3. Brandon Burke    vs Sasha Gozun 4-6 7-5 6-4     (USF)
4. Sam Fife           vs Ignacio Gonzalez-Muniz 6-3 7-6(5) (USF)
5. Danny Hirschberg        vs Federico Sabogal 3-6 6-0 6-4      (USF)
6. Lucas Da Silveira            vs Finn Meinecke 6-3 6-4     (Brown)