Saints Remain Perfect With Pair of Lopsided Wins
The 4th ranked Seward County Saints continued their roll through any resistance Saturday in Midlothian, Texas, burying Texas A&M Texarkana 9-0 and Jacksonville 8-1 to improve to 6-0 on the year.
Playing against their fifth four-year school in their first five matches of the season, the 4th ranked Seward County Saints went to battle against Texas A&M Texarkana Saturday morning in Midlothian, Texas. The Saints matchup with the Eagles began with doubles play and from the start, it was evident that it was going to be a good day for the guys in green. Seward earned 8-1 wins at #2 and #3 doubles to go on top early before an 8-4 win at the top spot from Carlos Anez and Ondrej Nice gave the Saints a 3-0 lead into singles play. The Saints control of the match grew to a vice grip lock as they started battling in singles action. The closest Texarkana could get to any of the Saints singles players was a 6-2 set score as Seward swept through singles, going 6-0 without coming close to losing a set as they rolled to a 9-0 win.
#4 SEWARD COUNTY/TEXAS A&M TEXARKANA MATCH RESULTS
The Saints finally took on their first NJCAA opponent of the season in their second match of the day on Saturday as they went up against Jacksonville. Doubles action was fierce, but once again, the Saints came out victorious. Ngoni Makambwa and Alvaro Regnifo pulled out an 8-6 win at #3 while Przemek Zielinski and Alex Mosehle won an 8-5 tussle at #2 to go ahead 2-0 before Anez and Nice breezed to an 8-2 win at #1 to finish the doubles sweep. Seward continued to dominate as singles play began, smashing Jacksonville at every spot from #2 to #6 to clinch the match win. The match of the day though was at #1 where the Jags Max Blancaneaux and Anez went at it for almost three hours before Blancaneaux finally outlasted the Saints Venezuelan in a three set thrilled to earn their only point of the match.
#4 SEWARD COUNTY/JACKSONVILLE MATCH RESULTS
The Saints improve to 6-0 on the season with the wins and will now open their 2016 home schedule on Saturday when they take on the Tabor Blue Jays at Blue Bonnet Park and the Seward campus tennis courts.