BEAVERTON, Ore. -  After dropping the match's opening point, the Portland State men's tennis team battled back to beat Pacific 4-3 at the Tualatin Hills Babette Horenstein Tennis Center on Friday.

Pacific opened up the year 0-1 while the Vikings improved to 1-3.

Oliver Richards and Nils Plutat shined for PSU in doubles play, improving to 2-1 at the No. 2 spot with a 6-2 win over Quentin Gonzalez and Aidan Rooney. Pacific locked in the opening point with a pair of wins at No. 1 and No. 3.

The Boxers had a solid start to singles action, extending their lead to 2-0 with a win at the No. 5 spot. Sam De Vries gave the Vikings life with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Nicholas Koulisis before Nils Plutat tied things up with a 6-4, 6-1 victory at flight one.

The Vikings' next victory came from Oliver Richards (6-2, 6-2) on court three, putting PSU up 3-2 with two matches remaining.

Portland State's Andrew Vu was unable to pull off a victory at the sixth position, leaving the match up to senior Tommy Hsu at the No. 2 spot.

After being pushed to a third set, Hsu got the job done for the Vikings, defeating Mason Tran 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to clinch the first win of the season for Portland State.

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The Vikings will look to build off their victory with two more duals this weekend. They'll return to Tualatin Hills tomorrow to take on Lewis & Clark (2 p.m.) before heading across town to Portland on Sunday (10 a.m.)