#4 Saints Breeze Past Tabor in Home Opener
The 4th ranked Seward County Saints continued their early season roll on Saturday at Blue Bonnet Park in Liberal, blowing past visiting Tabor 9-0 in their home opener to improve to 7-0 on the year.
On a picture perfect Saturday morning, the Saints and Blue Jays began things with doubles action. Seward sent Przemek Zielinski and Alex Mosehle to the court in #1 doubles and the two played a very competitive match early on against the Jays top pair, but in the end, the Saints were too much in an 8-4 win. At #2 it was Carlos Anez and Ondrej Nice teaming up for Seward. The Saints duo was unstoppable, putting an 8-0 blanking on Tabor to chalk up another point for Seward. In #3 play it was Ngoni Makambwa and Felipe Casares doing battle for the guys in green. It certainly didn't look like the first time the two had taken the court together in 2016 as they brought home an easy 8-2 win for Seward to give the Saints a clean sweep in doubles action.
In singles action at the top spot, Zielinski took on Illia Filanchuk in a spirited battle on court one with Zielinski getting stronger as the match went along to come away with a 6-3, 6-4 win. That was the only moderately close match in the singles portion of the dual as Makambwa and Casares won 6-0, 6-0 matches at #3 and #4 to seal the win while Zach Suico, playing in his first regular season match as a Saint won 6-1, 6-1 at #6 to finish off the 9-0 sweep for the Saints.
Seward improves to 7-0 on the year with the win and run their individual match record to an impressive 56-7.
The Saints will continue a busy Spring schedule on Friday when they travel to Central Kansas to take on Bethel and Bethany in duals before returning home to take on Colorado State University-Pueblo next Sunday at Blue Bonnet Park.