BYUH, HPU set up showdown

Advertiser Staff

The easy part is over.

Now Hawai'i Pacific will have to face top-ranked — and arch rival — Brigham Young University-Hawai'i today in the quarterfinals of the men's NCAA II National Championship tournament in Kansas City, Mo.

Both schools easily defeated their opponents, 5-0, to advance to the second round. (Today's match has been rescheduled to 8 a.m. Hawai'i time.)

The Seasiders (26-1) blanked Assumption College, sweeping the doubles with the No. 1 duo of Jan Krejci and Peter Madarassy securing an 8-1 victory. Hung Soon Park and Hong Tae Kim were the first to finish their singles matches to seal the win. National and Region Rookie of the Year Krejci was down 2-4 to AC's Sean Kenney in the second set before the match was called.

"It was good to play," BYUH head coach David Porter said. "They were probably a little stronger than we had thought in terms of depth, but they were good enough to give us a good workout."

The sixth-ranked Sea Warriors (20-4) put away Colorado School of Mines, winning all three doubles matches. Mikael Maatta and Stefan Pampulov won their singles matches to secure HPU's win.

BYUH faced HPU three times this season, losing once to the Sea Warriors in the Pacific West Tennis Championships in mid-April. That was their last meeting.

"I think the team is ready. In fact, I think they're kind of happy to play them," Porter said. "It's going to be a good match-up. Either way Hawai'i will be well-represented in the next round."

Last year's national champions, third-seeded Rollins College, fell to unseeded Northwood in the first round.

The top-ranked BYUH women (26-0) also advanced to the quarterfinals, putting away Northern Michigan, 5-0, in their opening match. Adrienn Hegedus, who earned West Region Rookie of the Year honors Tuesday, shut out her opponent in her singles match. Moments later Tomoko Sukegawa and Amy Sun easily won their singles matches, sending the Sea Warriors into the next round.

Favorites to win the national title, the Seasider women have won four national titles in the past five years, finishing second last year.

"It we stay healthy and injury-free, I think we'd be pretty hard to beat," Porter said. "But you never know ... Nothing's a sure thing in sports."

First-round results

Men

Singles

Jan Krejci, BYUH vs. Sean Kenney, AC 6-3, 2-4 DNF

Peter Madarassy, BYUH vs. Ryan Richert, AC 6-3, 5-3 DNF

Hung Soon Park, BYUH def. Jason Speirs, AC 6-2, 6-1

Andrew Makarevich, BYUH vs. Alex Madrigal, AC 6-0, 5-1 DNF

Eddie Merc, BYUH vs. James Newman, AC 5-4 DNF

Hong Tae Kim, BYUH def. David Jervasi, AC 6-1, 6-0

Mikael Maatta, HPU def. Ivan Molinar, CSM 6-1, 6-2

Blaz Jurjec, HPU vs. Kevin Yu, CSM DNF

Matey Pampulov, HPU vs. Matt Rychlik, CSM DNF

Jan Tribler, HPU vs. Brian Buck, CSM DNF

Stefan Pampulov, HPU def. Dinuca Ranaweera, CSM 6-1, 6-2

Karl Sloss, HPU vs. Almed Sejati, CSM DNF

Doubles

Krejci/Madarassy, BYUH def. Kenney/Richert, AC 8-1

Park/Kim, BYUH def. Speirs/Madrigal, AC 8-5

Makarevich/Ndiaye, BYUH def. Newman/Jervasi, AC 8-4

Tribler/Maatta, HPU def. Buck/Rychlik, CSM 8-6

Sloss/S. Pampulov, HPU def. Molinar/Yu, CSM 8-2

Jurjec/M. Pampulov, HPU def. Ranaweera/Sejati, CSM 8-5

Women

Singles

Adrienn Hegedus, BYUH def. Vessy Jeliazkova, UNM 6-0, 6-0

Petra Gaspar, BYUH vs. Kris Koopmann, UNM DNF

Kellie Taguchi, BYUH vs. Lavinia Janssen, UNM DNF

Tagifano So'onalole-Taosoga, BYUH vs. Sabina Vandenbor, UNM DNF

Tomoko Sukegawa, BYUH def. Brooke Aronin, UNM 6-1, 6-1

Amy Sun, BYUH def. Heidi Ehlers, UNM 6-0, 6-1

Doubles

Gaspar/So'onalole-Taosoga, BYUH def. Jeliazkova/Koopmann, UNM 8-2

Taguchi/Sukegawa, BYUH def. Janssen/Aronin, UNM 8-3

Hegedus/Sun, BYUH def. Vandenbor/Katie Stofcheck, UNM 8-0