All of the action at the National Tennis Center is quickly coming to an end, as all of the finals have been set. After a big day on Friday, USC's Ray Sarmiento came up short today versus Illinois' Jared Hiltzik, as Hiltzik won 6-2, 7-6. As the 8 seed, on Sunday Hiltzik will take on UCLA's Clay Thompson. Thompson is now 17-1 on the season in singles and is on a 14 match winning streak. After losing his only match of the season to Oklahoma's Axel Alvarez (who Thompson defeated in today's semifinals), Thompson went onto win the ITA-All American Championships back draw (winning 5 matches), the Southern California Intercollegiate Championships title (winning 5 matches) and now winning his first four here. Not a bad fall for Thompson at all. That match will be at 11:30 ET on Sunday.
In the main draw doubles, Tennessee's Hunter Reese and Mikelis Libietis will go for their second straight major doubles title of the season after defeating Illinois' Tim Kopinski and Ross Guignon 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday. In more of the surprise department, the wildcards from Columbia (Ashok Narayana and Max Schnur) clinch their spot in the final taking down Florida States Benjamin Lock and Marco Nunez 6-4, 6-4. Here is match point, via WeAreITA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0LsDen-n4
The final between the host's Columbia and Tennessee will take place at 10 am ET Sunday.
In the consolation 2nd round doubles, both seeds made it to the finals. The top seeds from UCLA (Marcos Giron and Mackenzie McDonald) will take on Ohio State's Peter Kobelt and Kevin Metka on Sunday also at 10 am ET.
Marcos Giron will also be in the consolation singles final, as he took down Baylor's Diego Galeano and then Tennessee's Hunter Reese on Saturday. He will play another Baylor player in the final, as the top seeded Patrick Pradella took down Dane Webb and Nik Sholtz en route to the final that will take place at 11:30a am ET Sunday.
Stay tuned for the conclusion and see who will win the last fall major of the year in the NCAA.
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