SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Yale men's tennis team had another strong showing on the West Coast. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs came up just short, falling to No. 38 UC Santa Barbara 4-3.
 
Yale's Luke Neal won the most exciting match of the night, edging Lucca Liu in three sets at the No. 4 position. Neal won the first set in a tiebreaker, dropped the second and then won the deciding set 6-2. Michael Sun and Walker Oberg both posted straight sets wins.
 
The Bulldogs now move to Northern California where they face Cal Poly on Friday at 2 p.m. EDT.
 
UC Santa Barbara 4, Yale 3
 
Doubles
1. #43 Phillip Jordan/Kai Brady (UCSB) vs. Renaud Lefevre/Vignesh Gogineni (YALE) 5-3, unfinished
2. Pablo Masjuan/Luka Mrsic (UCSB) def. Aidan Reilly/Theo Dean (YALE) 6-3
3. Gianluca Brunkow/Lucca Liu (UCSB) def. Michael Sun/Eric Li (YALE) 6-3
 
Singles
1. Phillip Jordan (UCSB) def. Theo Dean (YALE) 6-2, 6-3
2. Pablo Masjuan (UCSB) def. Vignesh Gogineni (YALE) 3-6, 6-0, 6-2
3. Michael Sun (YALE) def. Gianluca Brunkow (UCSB) 6-4, 6-2
4. Luke Neal (YALE) def. Lucca Liu (UCSB) 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-2
5. Luka Mrsic (UCSB) def. Aidan Reilly (YALE) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5)
6. Walker Oberg (YALE) def. Conrad Brown (UCSB) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4