The USC men beat Virginal Tech 7-0 at Marks Stadium last week to improve their record to 15-0 on the young season, with some juggling of the line-up. In this match USCs #1 Steven Johnson didn't play and fresnman Eric Johnson was inserted at #6 singles, which is understandable. But what really caught my eye was the rest of the line-up, at #1 was Emilio Gomez who usually plays #4 and Yannick Hanfmann at #2 instead or 5. Both came through with victorys but Yannick had to go three sets. Ray Sarmiento and Daniel Nguyen played 3 & 4 and had easy victories with Roberto Quiroz being the first player to finish and Eric Johnson clinching the match.

The women opened the Pac-12 with a 6-1 victory over Washington State with a 1-0 conference and 11-2 overall, not bad for a young team still ranked #3. The Women played without #3 player Maria Santamaria, but got wins from the whole crew only losing at #1 singles.

#1 USC 7, #50 Virginia Tech 0

March 9, 2012 -- Marks Stadium

DOUBLES

(1) #49 Nguyen/Sarmiento (USC) def. Somen/Tocci (VT) -- 8-5

(2) S. Johnson/Quiroz (USC) def. Daciek/Oliveira (VT) -- 8-1

(3) Gomez/Hanfmann (USC) def. Koontz/Kujundzic (VT) -- 8-2

USC wins doubles point.

Order of finish: 2, 3, 1

SINGLES

(1) #32 Emilio Gomez (USC) def. Luka Somen (VT) -- 6-3, 6-3

(2) #38 Yannick Hanfmann (USC) def. Lucas Oliveira (VT) -- 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (10-8)

(3) #22 Ray Sarmiento (USC) def. Patrick Daciek (VT) -- 6-3, 6-3

(4) #15 Daniel Nguyen (USC) def. Maurice Antun (VT) -- 6-3, 6-1

(5) #124 Roberto Quiroz (USC) def. Corrado Degl' Incerti Tocci (VT) -- 6-4, 6-1

(6) Eric Johnson (USC) def. Trpimir Kujundzic (VT) -- 6-2, 6-2*

Order of finish: 5, 3, 6*, 4, 2, 1

#3 USC 6, Washington State 1

March 10, 2012 -- Marks Stadium

DOUBLES

(1) #39 Pulido/Scandalis (USC) def. Kankaras/Vasilieva (WSU) -- 8-1

(2) Lao/Ramos (USC) def. Fournier/Luzina (WSU) -- 8-2

(3) Christian/DeSimone (USC) def. Koning/Musilovich (WSU) -- 8-2

USC wins doubles point.

Order of finish: 1, 2, 3

SINGLES

(1) #72 Liudmila Vasilieva (WSU) def. #13 Zoe Scandalis (USC) -- 4-6, 6-4, 6-0

(2) #16 Danielle Lao (USC) def. Elisabeth Fournier (WSU) -- 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-7)

(3) #84 Kaitlyn Christian (USC) def. Andjela Kankaras (WSU) -- 6-1, 6-3

(4) Gabriella DeSimone (USC) def. Ksenia Googe (WSU) -- 6-3, 6-4

(5) Alison Ramos (USC) def. Elizaveta Luzina (WSU) -- 6-1, 3-6, 6-2

(6) Valeria Pulido (USC) def. Olga Musilovich (WSU) -- 1-6, 6-2, 6-1*

Order of finish: 3, 4, 6*, 2, 5, 1