Saints Set School Record For Wins in a Season
It has been a record breaking year for the 3rd ranked Seward County Saints in 2015 and Thursday at home on the Campus Tennis Courts, they set another all-time mark, picking up their 9th win of the season in a 9-0 drubbing of visiting Hesston, marking the most wins in a single season in school history.
Seward jumped out strong against Hesston Thursday afternoon in Liberal, hammering the Larks in all three doubles matches. Ronzai Saurombe and Vitor Galvao won 8-1 at #1 doubles while Felipe Casares and Alvaro Regnifo did the same at #2 to give the Saints a 2-0 lead in the match. The most lopsided match though came at #3 where Tare Mariga and Paul Arslanian needed just 22 minutes to win 8-0 to give the Saints a clean sweep in doubles action.
As singles play got underway, it was quite obvious that the Saints domination was set to continue. Saurombe picked up a 6-0, 6-3 win at #1 while Galvao defeated Eric Cender 6-2, 6-0 at #2 to seal the match for Seward. Regnifo was a 6-1, 6-0 winner at #3 for Seward and Casares defended his #31 national ranking with a 6-2, 6-1 victory at #4. The Saints top two point getters this season, Tare Mariga and Paul Arslanian each improved to 9-1 on the season at #5 and #6 singles, earning 6-1, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-0 victories respectively at the bottom of the lineup to complete the sweep.
Seward improves to 9-3 on the season and their 9 wins sets an all-time mark in Saints Tennis history. Individually the Saints are now 80-28 in their 2015 matches and will take that record into the NJCAA Region VI Championships in Arkansas City on Friday, April 24th.