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NCAA All-Tournament Team
May 23, 2006
Second-ranked Pepperdine defeated No. 1 ranked and undefeated Georgia
4-2 to capture the 2006 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship tonight at the
Taube Tennis Center at Stanford. It was the first men's tennis
championship in Pepperdine history and the first men's tennis title
in West Coast Conference history. The Waves finished the season 36-2
while Georgia suffered their first defeat of the season after 30
consecutive wins.
Pepperdine led 1-0 after winning the doubles point. Singles victories
by Ivor Lovrak and Omar Altmann put the Waves on the brink of the
title. Andre Begemann, at No. 4 singles, clinched the match for
Pepperdine with a 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 win over Georgia's Matic Omerzel.