NCAA TENNIS : Notre Dame Beats No. 1 USC; Stanford Beats No. 3 UCLA

Notre Dame ended USC’s hopes of a second consecutive NCAA men’s tennis title Monday, upsetting the top-seeded Trojans in a semifinal match of the NCAA tournament at Athens, Ga., 5-1.

No. 2 Stanford defeated No. 3 UCLA in the other semifinal, 5-1.

USC (21-3) had to move Wayne Black and Kent Seton, normally the Nos. 5 and 6 singles players, up in the lineup because of an injury to Andreas Lanyi. Reserve Phil Whitesell played at No. 6. Seton won but Black and Whitesell lost, Black for the first time this season in a dual match.

Black, a freshman ranked 50th in the Volvo Tennis-Collegiate rankings, lost to unranked Will Forsyth, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

The Bruins’ (21-5) top five singles players were beaten.

“The loss was really disappointing,” Bruin Coach Glenn Bassett said. “This is such a good team that I thought we had a chance to win the championship, if we were ever going to win it. Sometimes you don’t feel that way, but I definitely thought this was that kind of team.”

Mamie Ceniza of UCLA won both of her matches in straight sets, advancing to the third round of the women’s tournament at Stanford. Both USC singles entrants lost, Maggie Simkova in the first round and Petra Schmitt in the second.

At Kalamazoo, Mich., Shelley Keeler of Pomona-Pitzer upset top-seeded Caroline Bodart of Menlo College, 6-1, 6-4, and teamed with Erin Hendricks for a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Debbie Frisk and Jill Tobin of Emory & Henry, becoming the second woman in NCAA Division III to win singles and doubles titles in the same year.