LAS VEGAS, Nevada. — In the third set of a 3-3 tie, Nikolay Sysoev couldn’t convert two game points that would have given him a 5-4 lead. Instead, Utah State scored five straight to take a 5-4 lead on the way to a 6-4 win in the final match for a 4-3 victory, shocking the No. 1 seeded Lobos on Thursday in the Mountain West Conference men’s tennis tournament semifinals.
UNM fell to 15-6 and most likely saw its season end. Arda Azkara, the Mountain West Player of the Year, won in singles along with Georgio Samaha, who won his team-best 25th of the year.