USD Men's Tennis 1996

By just that much the USD Tennis Team missed making the NCAA Cham– pionships in 1995. The Toreros were among six teams who qualified for the NCAA Region 8 Championships, held the first weekend of April at UCLA. Other participating teams were Cal Berkeley, Arizona, UC Irvine, Washington and UNLV. In the opening round the Toreros were in fine form , defeat– ing Arizona 4-1. USD had previ– ously upended the Wildcats 4-3 in a close match where UofA played without their top two singles play- ers.

1995 NCAA West Regionals, at UCLA

But at the Regionals, the team was full strength ; nevertheless the Toreros prevailed. In singles Jack Whigham defeated Eddie Schwartz 6-1, 6-4, James Conda defeated Roland Kupka 6-0, 6-3, and Mark Huarte di. James Rey 4-6, 6-1 , 6-1 . In the second round USD was presented with a chance to avenge an earlier season on-the-road loss to UNLV, who bested them 5- 1. The Toreros' fortunes were reversed this time, thanks in part to the doubles tandems of Conda-Emmanuel Udozorh , Bobby Hrdina-J.J. Shobar and Huarte-Whigham. In singles Hrdina and Conda scored quick wins to secure the 4-1 victory. In the final against the 14th-ranked Bears, the Toreros took the doubles point; the teams of Hrdina-Shobar and Huarte-Whigham won. But the superior singles play of Cal dashed USD's hopes of traveling to Athens , Georgia for the NCAA Championships. The final score was 4-1. "Overall we played well ," said team captain and senior Mark Huarte. "This season was definitely considered a success. We exceeded our expectations for the year."

FINAL /TA RANKINGS

1995 TEAM

18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

Arlcansas Auburn SAN DIEGO Princeton UC Irvine Washington Northwestam

35. 36. 37. 38. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

Notre Dame Minnesota Fresno State Arizona State

Stanford Georgia

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Mississippi

UCLA

Miami

Pepperdine

Virginia Commonwealth

Mississippi State Texas Christian Sou1h Alabama

Florida State

Alabama-Birmingham

Nevada-las Vegas Florida International Sou1hem Methodist Vanderbilt Ohio State Tulsa Columbia Utah Colorado/Indiana St. SW Louisiana

Kansas

9.

Texas

Louisiana

South Florida

Texas A&M

Duke USC

11.

Clemson Michigan Harvard

Cal-Berkeley

13. 14. 15. 16.

Florida

Boise State

New Maxico Tennessee

Arkansas-Little Rock

North Carolina

Kentucky

J.R. Edwards (24-8/ITA #90) made '90 NCAA Dbls Chps. w/Jose Luis Noriega.

Led by Jim McNamee, Scott Patridge and Dave Stewart, the '87 USD team (24-9/ITA #24), defeated Stanford and Pepperdine, the '86 NCAA Finalists.