?Riverside—Cooper Bridge and Calvin Ngo picked up victories at number three and number six singles Thursday afternoon, but the UC Riverside Men's Tennis Team fell to visiting Binghamton, 5-2.
The Bearcats took the doubles point winning all three matches by scores of 6-2 (No. 1 Doubles), 6-1 (No. 2), and 6-3 (No. 3).
Bridge dropped his first singles set 6-4, but bounced back to win the next two sets by identical 6-3 scores. Ngo was a straight set winner (6-2, 7-6), and Luis Gastao nearly picked up another point for the Highlanders taking his first set at No. 2 singles, 7-6, before falling 6-1 and 6-3 in sets two and three. Sina Sharifi also battled his opponent at number five singles to three sets, winning the first 6-3, but he also dropped the final two sets, 6-2 and 6-3.
UC Riverside's next match is an April 18 Big West home tilt against UC Davis beginning at 11 a, PT
| UC Riverside vs. Binghamton |
| April 9, 2015 |
| (Santa Barbara, CA) |
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| Binghamton 5, UC Riverside 2 |
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| Doubles |
| 1 | Robin Lesage | def. | Michael Carella | Bing | 6-2 |
| Eliott Hureau | | Cooper Bridge | | |
| 2 | Ismael Dinia | def. | Julian Ruffin | Bing | 6-1 |
| Vibar Shoh | | Calvin Ngo | | |
| 3 | Sid Hazarika | def. | Luis Gastao | Bing | 6-3 |
| Frenk Kote | | Sean Robles | | |
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| Singles |
| 1 | Sid Hazarika | def. | Julian Ruffin | Bing | 6-1, 6-4 |
| 2 | Robin Lesage | def. | Luis Gastao | Bing | 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 |
| 3 | Cooper Bridge | def. | Eliott Hureau | UCR | 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 |
| 4 | Thomas Caputo | def. | Michael Carella | Bing | 6-4, 6-3 |
| 5 | Frenk Kote | def. | Sina Sharifi | Bing | 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 |
| 6 | Calvin Ngo | def. | Douglas Notaris | UCR | 6-2, 7-6 |
