PORTLAND, Ore. -- Following an impressive fall season, in which the Lewis & Clark Pioneers put their first competitors into the USTA/ITA Regionals semifinals, the men's tennis team hosted the Portland State Vikings on Thursday night at the Lewis & Clark Tennis Dome.
Harrison Collins won the only Pioneers individual match, and Keane Hindle and Pim Trouerbach led a doubles match, in the dual competition.
Collins lost his first set to Ian Risenhoover 3-6 before claiming the second set 6-1. Risenhoover later withdrew.
In the first set of their doubles match, Hindle and Trouerbach led the first set, 5-4, against Nathan Boniel and Wil Cochrane. The match was labeled unfinished.
The closest of the singles matches featured Lewis & Clark's Gordon Barrows against PSU's Brent Wheeler. After a tight 7-5 first set that went to Wheeler, Barrows was unable to even the match in the second set, losing 6-2.
Barrows and Wheeler were also involved in a close doubles session, as Barrows teamed up with Lewis & Clark teammate Brenden Barrows in an 8-6 loss to Wheeler and Ethan Lopez.
Raed Attia and Kevin Ross, who were the doubles pair that made the USTA/ITA Regionals for the Pioneers last fall, fell 8-5 to Portland State's Risenhoover and Scott Goldner.
Attia and Ross also fell in their singles matches. Attia dropped a 6-0, 6-1 match to Nathan Boniel, while Ross lost 6-0, 6-2 to Goldner.
Other singles meetings included Ethan Lopez defeating Lewis & Clark's Daniel Hahm 6-0, 6-2, while Brendan Barrows lost to Cochrane 6-2, 6-1.
Lewis & Clark was originally supposed to travel to Portland State, but the site was changed earlier in the week to be a home dual for the Pios.
The dual served as a spring warm-up for Lewis & Clark, which opens Northwest Conference competition on Feb. 20 at Whitworth. The Lewis & Clark women's tennis team opens play on Feb. 12-13 in Walla Walla, Wash. facing Trinity (Tex.) and Redlands.
