Saints Blank Thunderwolves For Tenth Win
The #4 Seward County Saints rolled to their tenth win of the season Sunday morning in front of their home crowd at Blue Bonnet Park in Liberal, hammering the visiting Colorado State-Pueblo Thunderwolves 9-0 to glide into Spring Break 10-0.
Doubles play got things kicked off Sunday on a foggy morning in Liberal. The Saints earned their first point of the match at #2 where Ondrej Nice and Felipe Casares secured a quick 8-2 win to put Seward up early 1-0. The matches at #1 and #3 doubles were a little bit more contested by the Thunderwolves, but in the end, it was Seward prevailing 8-4 in both spots to go up 3-0.
In singles play, Nice earned an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over David Mould at #4 singles while Zach Suico had little trouble at #6 with a 6-2, 6-1 win to give the Saints a 5-0 lead. Przemek Zielinski and Ngoni Makambwa, both top 50 ranked players for the Saints, picked up matching 6-2, 6-3 wins for Seward at #2 and #5 to make it 7-0. Alex Mosehle played a tough first set at #3 singles, winning 6-4, but cruised in the second 6-1 to secure the Saints seventh win of the morning. The match of the day came at #1 singles where Carlos Anez battled Aussie Siggy Menzel. In front of spirited crowds on both sides, Anez took the opening set 6-4, but watched as Menzel took the second 6-3 to even the match up. The tiebreak was a close one as well with Anez eventually outlasting Menzel 10-8 to take the match and secure the sweep for the Saints.
Seward improves to 10-0 on the year with the win while CSU-Pueblo falls to 0-6.
The Saints will enjoy Spring Break with their undefeated record before putting it back on the line on March 22nd when they host the Barton Cougars at Blue Bonnet Park.