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KANSAS CITY – Entering Saturday’s Summit League Championship match against UMKC, the IUPUI men’s tennis team was hoping its third appearance in the championship would be a charm as it looked to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. Instead, however, the Kangaroos avenged its only regular-season conference loss by defeating IUPUI, 4-0, Saturday evening at the Plaza Tennis Center.

IUPUI didn’t get off to the start it had hoped as it came up short in both its No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches resulting in the ‘Roos seizing the momentum and a 1-0 lead.

After dropping the doubles point, it was imperative for the Jags to get off to a good start in singles in order to halt UMKC’s momentum, but the Kangaroos proved to be too much to overcome.

Nino Hasandedic was the first player to earn a singles victory doing so by a pair of 6-3 wins over Luke Bielawski at the No. 3 spot.

That win was followed by a win over Joel Modesitt at the fourth position, and the clinching victory came at the sixth spot in a second-set tiebreaker, sending the Kangaroos to the 4-0 victory.

The loss marked the Jaguars second consecutive Summit League Championship match defeat to UMKC in as many seasons and ended the Jaguars season at 11-16.

Tennis Match Results
IUPUI vs UMKC
Apr 28, 2012 at Kansas City, Mo.
(Plaza Tennis Center)
 
UMKC 4, IUPUI 0
Singles competition
1. Grant Fleming (UMKC) vs. Ivan Mojsejev (IUPUI) 7-5, 3-3, unfinished
2. Tomas Patino (UMKC) vs. Chase Emerson (IUPUI) 7-6 (7-4), 2-0, unfinished
3. Nino Hasandedic (UMKC) def. Luke Bielawski (IUPUI) 6-3, 6-3
4. Abdulrahman Alawadhi (UMKC) def. Joel Modesitt (IUPUI) 7-5, 6-3
5. Gustavo Guerin (UMKC) vs. Deon Shafer (IUPUI) 6-7 (5-7), 1-4, unfinished
6. Cameron Schoenhofer (UMKC) def. Louis Sacks (IUPUI) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2)
 
Doubles competition
1. Cameron Schoenhofer/Grant Fleming (UMKC) def. Patrick O'Neill/Luke Bielawski (IUPUI) 8-5
2. Abdulrahman Alawadhi/Gustavo Guerin (UMKC) def. Joel Modesitt/Nick Volz (IUPUI) 8-4
3. Conner Edwards/Tomas Patino (UMKC) vs. Deon Shafer/Ivan Mojsejev (IUPUI) 4-7, unfinished
Match Notes:
IUPUI 11-14
UMKC 9-15
Order of finish: Doubles (1,2); Singles (3,4,6)