OJAI, Calif. – The No. 74 Portland men's tennis team defeated the San Francisco Dons by a 4-1 margin in the opening round of the West Coast Conference Championships Thursday at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club. The Pilots – the No. 3 seed in the tournament – advance to face second-seeded and No. 22 Pepperdine in Friday's semifinals at 1:30 p.m.
Portland opened the match by taking the doubles point. The No. 2 doubles tandem of Nicolas Ocana and Nikolas Tvedt won by a 6-3 margin and then the No. 32-ranked No. 1 team of Sema Pankin and Eleftherios Neos clinched with a tiebreak win at the top of the order.