MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine men's tennis team began West Coast Conference play on Saturday, falling to Loyola Marymount 4-3.
 
RESULTS
DOUBLES
1. #40 Nick Borchenko/Diego Nava (LMU) def. Adrian Oetzbach/Tim Zeitvogel (PEPP) 6-3
2. Corrado Summaria /Enrique Luque Rico (PEPP) vs. Lukas Moenter/Thien Nguyen 5-6
3. Ethan Prost/Ryan Brown (LMU) def. Matias Sborowitz /Pawel Jankowiak (PEPP) 6-3
Order of Finish: 1,3

SINGLES
1. ##86 Lukas Moenter (LMU) def. Adrian Oetzbach (PEPP) 6-7, 7-6, 7-6
2. Nick Borchenko (LMU) def. Enrique Luque Rico (PEPP) 3-6, 7-6, 7-6
3. Corrado Summaria (PEPP) def. Diego Nava (PEPP) 6-4, 6-3
4. Matias Sborowitz (PEPP) def. Thien Nguyen (LMU) 6-2, 7-6
5. Tim Zeitvogel (PEPP) def. Lucas Moreno (LMU) 6-4, 7-6
6. Austin Di Giulio def. Pawel Jankowiak (PEPP) 7-6, 4-6, 62
Order of Finish: 3,4,5,2,1,6*
 
MATCH RECAP 
Loyola Marymount got on the board first in the doubles competition, as courts one and three both ended in 6-3 results for the Lions. The match on court two was 6-5 in favor of the Lions when the point was clinched.
 
Pepperdine had the hot start in the singles session of the match. Summaria defeated Nava in straight sets, 6-4 6-3. Almost simultaneously, Sborowitz won his match on four, defeating Nguyen 6-2 7-6. Zeitvogel got the Waves to within a single match win of the overall win when he defeated Moreno in a tiebreak set 7-6 after winning the first 6-4. Rico won his first set 6-3 over Borchenko, but lost the final two sets in tiebreak games. In the match on one, Oetzbach won the first set 7-6 by tiebreak, and lost the second and third in the same way, both 6-7 tiebreak losses. In the final match on court, Jankowiak lost the first set 7-6, but forced a third set with a 6-4 second set victory before falling 5-2 in the third and final set.
 
NEXT UP
The Waves take on Washington on Sunday, with the match beginning at 1 p.m.