Saints Hammer Kansas Wesleyan to Setup Showdown
The Seward County Saints had little trouble with visiting Kansas Wesleyan Friday afternoon at Blue Bonnet Park in Liberal, putting it to the Coyotes to the tune of a 9-0 beating to improve to 12-0 on the year and setup a huge Monday showdown with Jayhawk Conference rival Cowley.
Seward got their first point of the day at #3 doubles where Felipe Casares and Tare Mariga earned an 8-1 win. The other two doubles spots were much more contested where the Saints had to squeeze out 8-6 wins to hold a 3-0 advantage into singles action.
In singles play the Saints had much less trouble. From the top down it was all green and white in the individual battles. Carlos Anez won a 6-3, 6-0 decision at the top spot while Przemek Zielinski won 6-2, 6-3 at #2. Ondrej Nice put matching 6-2 scores on Michael Moody at #3 and Alvaro Rengifo won an 8-3 superset at #4 in the duals final match. Tare Mariga and Zach Suico both earned 6-1 first set wins at #5 and #6 before the pair picked up 6-2 and 6-4 wins respectively to sweep their matches and give Seward a 9-0 blanking of the Coyotes.
The Saints improve to 12-0 on the year with the win and push their individual match record in 2016 to an almost unbelievable 100-8. Kansas Wesleyan takes a step back to 4-2 on the spring.
#4 Seward will take the court again on Monday in their biggest match to date when they host #7 Cowley in a huge Jayhawk Conference tussle at Blue Bonnet Park in Liberal. The Saints and Tigers will get things underway at 10:00 AM.