{"id":179801,"date":"2026-02-16T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:14:08","slug":"mens-tennis-falls-on-the-road-at-pacific-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179801\/","title":{"rendered":"MEN\u2019S TENNIS FALLS ON THE ROAD AT PACIFIC, 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Beavers (American River).png\" alt=\"American River College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p> American River College<\/p>\n<p>2\/22\/2026 | 1:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Feb. 22 (Sun) \/ 1:00 pm&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Beavers (American River).png\" alt=\"American River College\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0American River College&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    STOCKTON, Calif. &#8212; Despite straight set singles wins from <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/nick-bowles\/10597\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10597\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Bowles<\/a> (No. 4) and <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/sebastian-vlahos\/10606\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10606\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Vlahos<\/a> (No. 6), it was not enough in the Hornets&#8217; 5-2 road loss at Pacific on Sunday afternoon at the Eve Zimmerman Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>In a match that was closer than the final score indicated, the Hornets dropped to 3-4 on the young season. Of those seven matches, six have come on the road. Pacific improved to 4-3 with the victory, and 2-1 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with a singles lineup that consisted of one junior, three sophomores and two freshmen, Sacramento State wasn&#8217;t far off winning this match. In fact, the Hornets lost matches at both Nos. 2 and 3 singles in the third set via 6-4 scores. <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/doni-gashi\/10603\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10603\" target=\"_blank\">Doni Gashi<\/a>, who had a 3-0 lead in the third, eventually fell in his match, and <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/freddie-healey\/10604\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10604\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Healey<\/a>, up 2-0 in the third, also fell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/martin-duris\/10599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10599\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Duris<\/a> (No. 1) and Davis Dai (No. 5) both lost in straight sets. The loss for Duris was just his second of the season, as the sophomore is now 5-2 this year (4-2 at the No. 1 spot).<\/p>\n<p>Vlahos has now won three straight singles matches, and is 4-2 this year (all at the No. 6 spot).<\/p>\n<p>Pacific opened the match by winning at Nos. 1 and 3 to earn the doubles point.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State will begin a season-long four-match homestand next Sunday vs. American River College at 1 p.m. The Hornets open Big Sky Conference play at home on Saturday, Feb. 28, vs. Weber State.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: American River College 2\/22\/2026 | 1:00 pm &#13; Feb. 22 (Sun) \/ 1:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-179801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}