MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine men's tennis team will make the trek to Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend for a showdown with the 29^th-ranked Gophers on Sunday.
 
DUAL MATCH #8: Pepperdine (7-0) vs #29 Minnesota (6-2) | Sunday, February 23^rd | 12 p.m. PT | Baseline Tennis Center in Minneapolis, Minn.
 
COVERAGE: Live streaming and scoring will be available at GopherSports.com as well as scoring updates on Twitter @PeppTennis.
 
ON THE GOPHERS
Minnesota stands 6-2 with their two losses coming by the way of Ivy Leagues Harvard and Dartmouth. The Gophers' most recent match resulted in a 7-0 win over UCSB, who Pepperdine defeated 4-3 two weeks ago. #67 Stefan Milicevic is the only ranked Gopher.
 
All-time, Pepperdine stands 10-1 with Minnesota, as their last meeting in 2010 resulted in a 4-3 loss for the Waves. The two teams have not played each other since. Last season, the Gophers finished 16-10 and earned a bid into the NCAA Tournament, where they fell 4-1 to the likes of the West Coast Conference's San Diego.
 
SURF REPORT
Over the weekend, the Waves kept their record clean of any blemishes as they routed Cal Poly 6-1 and Fresno State 4-0. In the wins, sophomore Tim Zeitvogel and senior Adrian Oetzbach remained undefeated as Zeitvogel went 3-6, 7-5, 10-4 against the Mustangs and 6-0, 7-6 against the Bulldogs while Oetzbach defeated his Cal Poly foe 6-2, 7-6 and went unfinished vs Fresno State, 7-6, 3-2.
 
Corrado Summaria remains the only Wave included in the ITA rankings this week at #69 in the country.
 
UP NEXT
The Waves will come home for most of next week before travelling back east to Nebraska for a 3 p.m. start on Friday, Febraury 28^th.