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George Samuel 500th men's tennis victory
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Barry men's tennis coach George Samuel won his 500th career match with the Bucs Saturday.
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Auburn Montgomery AUMM (5-6)
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Winner Barry BARRY-MT (9-1)
Auburn Montgomery AUMM
(5-6)
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Final
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Barry BARRY-MT
(9-1)
Winner

Match Recap: Men's Tennis |

500 Flavor: Men's Tennis Beats AUM as Samuel Reaches Milestone

Barry coach picks up 808th career victory overall

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – George Samuel insists he hasn't been thinking about it. Well, he is now after getting splashed with a water bath to commemorate his special day.

Barry University's longtime men's tennis coach collected career win No. 500 Thursday when the seventh-ranked Buccaneers beat Auburn-Montgomery, 7-2, at Buccaneer Tennis Center.

"Man, how do you like that?" Samuel said after the splash bath. "Every match we've played since I was informed I was getting close to 500, I've never thought about it. I'm more into what's going on in the court than myself. There are little things you can take with you. Hopefully after retirement that's something I can look back on with some of the other special memories." 
 

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Barry 7, Auburn-Montgomery 2 
Records: Barry 9-1, Auburn-Montgomery 5-6

SUMMARY:

  • The Buccaneers won the top two doubles positions by 8-5 scores. Ahmed Triki and Pierre Montrieul beat the Warhawks pair of Vincent Dubosclard and Birkir Gunnarsson at No. 1, while  No. 24-ranked Carlos Gomez and Vivien Versier beat Alvaro Terron and Francisco Mendieta at No. 2.
  • Triki, who owns the No. 2 singles ranking in the country, was a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 winner over Mendieta at No. 1.
  • Montrieul beat Matias Stefanis, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 2. 
  • Eleventh-ranked Gomez defeated Terron, 7-5, 6-2, at No. 3. 
  • Versier won 6-2, 6-1 over Gunnarsson at No. 5.
  • Daniel Ventura beat Santiago Veglia, 6-3, 6-0, at No. 6, giving the Bucs five of the six singles victories.

NOTEWORTHY:

  • In his 26th year with Barry's men's program, George Samuel has averaged over 19 wins a season. He also coached the women's team for 18 years, averaging over 17 wins per season.
  • Samuel has 808 career combined victories for the men's and women's teams.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:

"We regrouped yesterday. After the running, I called a team meeting, and showed them clips of the 2010 national championship. I told them this was the year we finally broke through. This is not an easy task ahead of us, but these guys are the type of team that can win this."
          -- Men's Tennis coach George Samuel

ON THE HORIZON:

Barry will host Indianapolis Saturday at noon.

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