Second Straight Sweep For Saints Against Southwestern
The #6 Seward County Saints continued a red hot streak by winning their second consecutive match in sweeping fashion, hammering Southwestern 9-0 Tuesday afternoon to move to 4-0 on the season.
Doubles action got things going in Winfield Tuesday afternoon where 7th ranked Ronzai Saurombe and Vitor Galvao picked up an easy 8-2 win over Michael Bond and Devon Leone in #1 doubles to give Seward an early 1-0 lead. Tare Mariga and Paul Arslanian continued the Saints success at #3 doubles, knocking off Chris Cane and Braden Baker 8-4 to put Seward up 2-0. The doubles match of the day came at #2 where Felipe Casares and Alvaro Regnifo teamed up for the Saints to earn an 8-6 win against Johnas Joudrey and Logan Bevis to give Seward a clean sweep in doubles play.
Arslanian earned the Saints first singles point with a 6-0, 6-0 drubbing of Chris Lane in #6 action and Saurombe clinched the match for the Saints with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Joudrey at #1 singles to make it 5-0 Seward. The Saints continued to dominate the Moundbuilders at every spot, with Southwestern's closest match coming in a 6-1, 6-3 Casares beating of Bevis as they took the points down the board to win their second straight match 9-0.
The Saints improve to a sparkling 4-0 on the season and have lost just 6 of their 36 total matches played on the year. Southwestern drops to 2-3 on the year with the loss.
Seward will be idle for 11 days before taking the court again on March 21st when they host Tabor in their 2015 home opener.