CHICAGO, Ill. – Augustana ran into a buzz saw at the University of Chicago Wednesday, falling 9-0 to a powerful Maroon outfit at Stagg Courts. The Vikings move to 6-4 overall heading into a CCIW matchup with North Central on Saturday, April 17 at the Lower Campus Courts. Chicago improved to 4-2 on the season.
 
Coach Jon Miedema's top two doubles teams both fell by scores of 8-5. Seniors Caio de Rezende (Colegio Itoca, Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Peter Alex (Hinsdale South HS, Darien, Ill.) lost to Christian Alshon and Jeremy Yuan at number one and Joshua Xu and Sachin Das defeated juniors Kyle Boudreau (Antioch HS, Antioch, Ill.) and Leonardo Panosso (La Sale Caxias, Caxias do Sul, Brazil) at second doubles.
 
Junior Justin Cassens (Emerald Ridge HS, Puyallup, Wash.) and freshman Eliot St. Paul (Ecole Diagonal, Paris, France) fell 8-2 at third doubles to Biren Reddy and Marek Michulka.
 
Alex dropped his second singles match with Yuan 7-5, 6-3. At number one, de Rezende lost his first set with Alshon 6-4 before retiring down 1-0 in the second.
 
Panosso fell 6-2, 6-0 to Das at number three and St. Paul lost one and one to Xu at number four. Michulka defeated Cassens 6-0, 6-0 at fifth singles and at number six, Boudreau dropped a 6-1, 6-0 decision to Alex Guzhva.