SPOKANE – The Portland State men's tennis team suffered its first loss in three weeks on Sunday, falling to Gonzaga 7-0 in Spokane. 

The Vikings were riding a four-game winning streak coming into its non-conference dual with the Bulldogs after earning their first Big Sky Conference victory over Eastern Washington on Friday.

Gonzaga secured a pair of doubles wins to start the day. The Bulldog's Sasha Trkula and Leon Roider defeated Bryan Husin and Tommy Hsu 6-3 at No. 2 while Sam Roberts and Nils Plutat dropped a tough 7-5 decision on court three. 

Plutat highlighted the Vikings in singles action, pushing Galvan Gomez to a tiebreaker at the No. 5 spot but ultimately fell 2-6, 6-4, 12-10. Putting up a fight at the No. 6 position was Husin who suffered a 7-5, 7-5 defeat to complete the Gonzaga sweep.

PSU will return to action next Saturday (March 6) against Washington.

Singles competition

1. HOLLINGWORTH, M. (GON) def. FORTINI, Matteo (PSU) 6-4, 6-3

2. TRKULJA, Sasha (GON) def. EDWARDS, Tommy (PSU) 6-3, 6-2

3. ROIDER, Leon (GON) def. HSU, Tommy (PSU) 6-4, 6-2

4. ANDERSSON, Oliver (GON) def. DIMITRIJEVIC, Nikola (PSU) 6-1, 6-1

5. GOMEZ GALVAN, Pablo (GON) def. PLUTAT, Nils (PSU) 2-6, 6-4, 12-10

6. EGGER, Hunter (GON) def. HUSIN, Bryan (PSU) 7-5, 7-5

Doubles competition

1. FORTINI, Matteo/EDWARDS, Tommy (PSU) vs. McDONALD, Theo/ANDERSSON, Oliver (GON) no result

2. TRKULJA, Sasha/ROIDER, Leon (GON) def. HSU, Tommy/HUSIN, Bryan (PSU) 6-3

3. PERKINS, Matthew/HOLLINGWORTH, M. (GON) def. ROBERTS, Sam/PLUTAT, Nils (PSU) 7-5

Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (4,2,1,3,6,5)