PORTLAND, Ore. – The No. 33 Minnesota Golden Gophers outlasted the Portland Pilots in an intense and hard-fought non-conference men's tennis match Sunday morning at the Louisiana Pacific Tennis Center. Minnesota snapped Portland's 24-match home win streak to improve to 8-3 overall, while the Pilots fell to 6-6 overall with all six losses coming against teams ranked in this week's ITA Top 50.
It was a back-and-forth match from the outset as momentum shifted with each match. Portland secured the doubles point, but the Gophers won the top three singles matches to go ahead 3-1. The bottom of Portland's lineup then came up with a pair of huge wins as Carlos Donat and Alex Wallace tied the match with wins at the No.