Rodgers, Buckingham Still Alive at Regionals
    Will face No. 1-seeded doubles team on Friday

    Junior Austin Francis
    Junior Austin Francis

    Oct. 16, 2008

    Junior Brett Rodgers and sophomore Johnny Buckingham stayed alive in the doubles consolation bracket of the Wilson/ITA Mountain Region Men's Tennis Championships Thursday in Las Vegas, Nev. The Falcon duo defeated Jordan Barlow and Matt Braithwaite of Utah State, 8-6, in the second round of the consolation draw.

    Earlier in the day, Rodgers and Buckingham dropped an 8-3 decision to Andrew Landwerlen and Martin Zimmermann of Denver in the second round. The Air Force team will face the tournament's No. 1-seeded team of Eduardo Salas and Roman Stoisavljevic of New Mexico State on Friday.

    In singles, Rodgers fell in the first round of the consolation bracket to Landwerlen, 6-1, 6-1, while junior Austin Francis split a pair of consolation matches. He defeated Jakub Dybala of Montana State 6-7, 6-4, 6-1, before losing a tough, three-set match to Cassidy Mears of BYU, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2.

     

     

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