MTEN2/22/2015 8:56 PM | By: Cal Athletics
Cal Beats Gaels in First Half of Doubleheader
BERKELEY – Fourteenth-ranked California was efficient in defeating Saint Mary's, 4-0, on Sunday morning at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The 8-3 Golden Bears – who also host UC Santa Barbara at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday – needed roughly one hour and 45 minutes to dispatch the Gaels, whose record fell to 1-7.
Cal clinched the doubles point when the 30th-ranked pair of seniors Chase Melton and Gregory Bayane knocked off Arthur Weber and Alex Hunt, 6-4, on court one (Newmark Stadium).
In singles, Bayane made the score 2-0 when he quickly beat Hunt on court three (Mascarin Court), 6-2, 6-2. Freshman Billy Griffith followed with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Samuel Bloore on court two (Bud Chandler Court), and junior Oskar Wikberg ended the competition with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Wil Martin on court four (Savides Sullivan Court).
No. 14 Cal (8-3) defeated Saint Mary's (1-7) – 4-0
Feb. 22, 2015, in Berkeley
Hellman Tennis Complex
Doubles
1. No. 30 Gregory Bayane/Chase Melton (Cal) def. Arthur Weber/Alex Hunt (Saint Mary's) – 6-4
2. Filip Bergevi/Oskar Wikberg (Cal) def. Samuel Bloore/James Markiewicz (Saint Mary's) – 6-1
3: Wyatt Houghton/Nikhil Jayashankar (Cal) vs. Wil Martin/Nash Vollenweider (Saint Mary's) – Abandoned
Cal captured the doubles point
Order of Finish: 2, 1*
*Clinched the doubles point
Singles
1. No. 42 Andre Goransson (Cal) vs. Arthur Weber (Saint Mary's) – Abandoned
2. Billy Griffith (Cal) def. Samuel Bloore (Saint Mary's) – 6-3, 6-2
3. Gregory Bayane (Cal) def. Alex Hunt (Saint Mary's) –6-2, 6-2
4. Oskar Wikberg (Cal) def. Wil Martin (Saint Mary's) – 6-3, 6-4
5. Nikhil Jayashankar (Cal) vs. Jacob Lagman (Saint Mary's) – Abandoned
6. Hasier Pastor (Cal) vs. James Markiewicz – Abandoned
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 4^
^Clinched the overall match
