"We felt like we had nothing to lose because we were the second seed," said Lum-Tucker, who played in his third Kailua tournament with Jobe. "We just had to play our game. If they beat us that way, then that's good for them."

The Kailua tournament draws the best players in Hawai'i, and with more than 40 teams entered, is considered the biggest in the state.

Jobe, a 1999 and 2001 state singles champion for Punahou, and Lum-Tucker, the 2000 state champion from Kaua'i, won $2,400 for the Kailua championship.

However, Jobe won't get to keep a cent because he's still in college. Jobe is scheduled to enroll at Boise State for his senior season this fall.

"I think Ikaika earned 90 percent of the money for me, because he earned 90 percent of the points," said Lum-Tucker, who is planning to return to Idaho as an assistant tennis coach. "Maybe I'll invest my money for him. Hopefully, we'll double it or triple it. Then I'll give him his share."

Last night belonged to Jobe and Lum-Tucker as they overwhelmed the former Santa Clara teammates, Bruggemann and Chen, who had not dropped a set in three previous matches.

It was the first meeting between the two teams in the Kailua tournament.

"They just outplayed us," Bruggemann said. "We couldn't even touch their serve. They put a lot of pressure on us."

Lum-Tucker said he struggled with his serve earlier in the tournament. Last night, he managed to clean up his service game by "concentrating on the basics" and making the serve.

"They were just amazingly solid on first serves," Chen said. "I didn't even know Brad had a second serve because he didn't need to hit that many."

In the first set, Lum-Tucker hit a winning lob to break Bruggemann's serve and go up 5-3. Jobe held serve to win the set.

"That was pretty much dog poop," Lum-Tucker said of his lob winner. "The strongest part of my game is luck."

With the score tied at 6 in the second set, Bruggemann and Chen failed to score a point in the tiebreaker.

"We tried to be more aggressive in the tiebreaker and take it to them," Lum-Tucker said. "For me, that was the turning point of the match because (the tiebreaker victory) gave us so much confidence."

In the final set, Jobe struck a winner off Bruggemann's second serve for a service break and a 3-1 lead. Leading 5-2, Jobe and Lum-Tucker broke Bruggemann again for the match.

"I knew it was going to be a tough match," Jobe said. "I knew we had to play solid and we'd get our chances. We did get our chances and took advantage of it."