As the rain poured in this past week, it put a damper on the Sac State men?s tennis team, as the Hornets lost one match and were forced to cancel another.

Saturday?s contest at Saint Mary?s was cancelled due to the rainy weather. On Wednesday, Sac State traveled to Santa Clara and took on the Broncos, losing 5-2, and pushing the men?s tennis record to 2-1 for the season.

“It would have been a good opportunity to win, they are ranked ahead of us,” head coach Chris Evers said.

Santa Clara was able to score the first point, as the Broncos won two of the three doubles matches. Santa Clara won the number one and two doubles matches by scores of 8-5 and 9-8 (5) over Sac State?s tandems of Sherif Zaher and Joe Gilbert in the number one match, and Sylvain Iff and Kevin Vieira in the number two match.

Sac State was able to win the number three doubles match, which consisted of Fabio Jesus and Chris Smith, by a score of 8-3.

“We lost the doubles point in a tiebreaker. I think we should have gotten the point though,” Evers said. “Our number one doubles team is struggling a little bit.”In singles play, Sac State was able to post victories at the number one and six matches, but lost the number two in five sets.

In the number one singles match, Zaher of Sac State was able to take the win, 6-7, 6-2, 7-6, while Jesus was able to win the other match for Sac State with a 6-1, 6-4 victory.”For the most part, the team busted their butts,” Evers said. “Fabio played well, he belongs playing number two.”

The number three and four singles matches, played by Gilbert and Iff of Sac State, were both decided in three sets. Gilbert lost 2-6, 6-2, 7-5, and Iff lost 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. Gilbert held a 3-0 and 4-1 lead in the final set, but was not able to finish off his opponent, who rallied for the win.

“We lost a couple of singles matches that could have gone the other way,” Evers said. “We need to get everyone healthy and practice real hard.”

The Hornets will play two matches this weekend at home. The team will take on Idaho State Friday afternoon, and Northern Arizona Saturday at Rio Del Oro Racquet Club. From there the Hornets will travel to Hawaii before returning home.

“Our schedule is still tough, we have a lot of matches coming up. Some guys were pretty sore after the Santa Clara match,” Evers said. “They better get used to back-to-back matches because we have a lot of them coming up.”

Although Evers likes the look of his team right now, he will be experimenting with future lineups to create the best winning formula for his squad.

“I?m going to make some line-up changes, and shake some things up,” Evers said. “We?re suppose to have good weather coming, so we will practice hard and get ready to play this weekend.”