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AUSTIN, Texas -- No. 12 Texas (9-5) took the doubles point and captured three singles matches to score a 4-3 upset victory over No. 2 Virginia (14-3) Sunday evening at UT's Penick-Allison Tennis Center.

"This is a great win for our guys," said UT coach Michael Center.  "It took a great effort to knock off the No. 2 team in the country, a semifinalist at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships with two of the top 10 players in the country."

Texas opened the doubles session with a decisive win at the third position, as sophomore Jonah Kane-West and junior Milan Mihailovic posted an 8-0 victory over Lee Singer and Marko Miklo.  The Longhorns clinched the doubles point moments later when UT juniors Bernhard Deussner (Vienna, Austria) and Luis Diaz Barriga scored an 8-4 victory at second doubles over Dominic Inglot and Houston Barrick.

Virginia's Devvarman put the Cavaliers on the board at first singles when he defeated Kutrovsky (Sofia, Bulgaria), 6-3, 6-4 to even the tally at one.  At second singles, Mihailovic (Nis, Serbia) took the first set, 6-1, against UVA's Huey and fought him off in the second set to win, 6-4, and give Texas the lead once again.

Diaz Barriga (Cordoba, Mexico) took the first set against Marko Miklo and surrendered the second before returning in the third to win, 6-3 to extend the Longhorns' lead to 3-1.

Freshman Josh Zavala (Amarillo, Texas) relinquished a tough first-set tiebreaker only to cruise past UVA's Barrick in the second set, 6-1.  Zavala immediately took control in the third set and tallied a 6-2 win to clinch the Longhorns' victory.

Virginia's Ted Angelinos outlasted UT's Kane-West (Free Union, Va.) in a third-set supertiebreaker, and Lee Singer topped Texas freshman Rook Schellenberg (Dallas, Texas) in a third-set tiebreaker.

Texas returns to the courts on Saturday, March 24 against New Mexico and Marquette at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center.             

No. 12 Texas 4, No. 2 Virginia 3
Doubles - Order of Finish:  3, 1, 2
1. No. 3 Devvarman/Huey (UVA) def. No. 48 Kutrovsky/Zavala (UT) - 8-4
2. Deussner/Diaz Barriga (UT) def. No. 40 Inglot/Barrick (UVA) - 8-4
3. Kane-West/Mihailovic (UT) def. Singer/Miklo (UVA) - 8-0

Singles - Order of Finish:  1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5
1. No. 2 Somdev Devvarman (UVA) def. Dimitar Kutrovsky (UT) - 6-3, 6-4
2. No. 85 Milan Mihailovic (UT) def. No. 15 Treat Huey (UVA) - 6-1, 6-4
3. Luis Diaz Barriga (UT) def. Marko Miklo (UVA) - 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
4. Josh Zavala (UT) def. Houston Barrick (UVA) - 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-2
5. Lee Singer (UVA) def. Rook Schellenberg (UT) - 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5)
6. Ted Angelinos (UVA) def. Jonah Kane-West (UT) - 6-0, 6-7 (8), 1-0 (10-7)