ten Berge and Klaeson dropped a tiebreaker, 9-8(3), to Kentucky's Matt Emery and Alex Hume. Claesson and Di Cesare lost to Nestor Briceno and Vladamir Obradovic of Florida, 8-5. Aarum and Tveit defeated the LSU team of Paul Gaston and Peter Richman, 9-7. In doubles, Ole Miss won one and lost two. In the second round, Tveit will battle Georgia's No. Also in his first competition as a Rebel, Norwegian Erling Tveit handed Michael Jung of Arkansas a 7-5, 7-5 loss. Klaeson will battle Florida's top newcomer, Nestor Briceno in the second round. 3 in the tournament.Ĭompeting in his first tournament for the Rebels, highly-touted freshman Jakob Klaeson (Lidkoping, Sweden) defeated UK's Marcus Sundh, 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. He will face a tough match in the second round, going up against LSU's No. Bram ten Berge, a native of the Netherlands, bested Volunteer freshman Morgan Wilson, 6-4, 6-2. Di Cesare will play Kentucky freshman Jason Mallaiah in the second round.Īll three of Ole Miss' freshman won their opening round matches. Junior Juan Pablo Di Cesare defeated 9-16 seed, Chris Brandi, of Florida, 6-4, 6-3, in the first round. Aarum held him off in the third 6-4, to advance to a second-round meeting against State's top player, Luiz Carvalho. Aarum won the first set, 6-4 and then Baxendine got the second in a tiebreaker. Claesson will face Auburn's Robert Lathouwers in the second round Saturday.įellow sophomore Fredrik Aarum, who is also seeded 9-16, defeated Tennessee newcomer David Baxendine, in three tightly contested sets. Sophomore Eric Claesson, seeded 9-16, downed Mississippi State newcomer Pierre Mouillon, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round. The Rebels finished the day at 7-2 overall in singles and doubles. The Ole Miss men's tennis team went 6-0 in singles play on day one of the SEC Indoor Championships at the Hilton Rivercenter Racquet Club. GW next competes in the 2005 Atlantic 10 Men's Golf Championship, May 6-9, at Newport National Golf Club in Middletown, RI.NEW ORLEANS, La. Johnson's outing improved his season stroke average to 77.13, fifth-best on the team through 15 rounds. Johnson's perfomance helped GW to a second-place finish just five strokes off the pace.
He defeated 62 other golfers in the 12-team field. Johnson shot 1-over on the front nine, but birdied the 10th to get back to even and then birdied his last three holes to go 4-under on the back nine. The victory was even more impressive considering that Johnson had to play through the worst conditions of the day in the late afternoon Saturday and came in at 3-under-par 68. Sunday's final round of the 36-hole tournament was cancelled due to unplayable conditions.įor Johnson, a freshman from Marblehead, MA, it marked the first tournament victory of his collegiate career and first Top 10 finish. Johnson won the rain-shortened URI Spring Invitational with a three-under-par 68 at the par-71, 6,830-yard Green Valley Country Club in Portsmouth, RI, last weekend. It marks the second A-10 Rookie honor for Johnson who also won the award earlier this season on March 28. Dummer Academy) has been named the Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie of the Week for men's golf, the league office has announced. WASHINGTON, DC - George Washington's Tim Johnson (Marblehead, MA/Gov.
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