Seward Dominates #29 Ouachita to Move to 2-0
The #5 Seward County Saints put together another dominating performance Saturday afternoon in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, defeating NCAA Division II #29 Ouachita Baptist by a count of 8-1 to sweep their weekend contests against ranked Division II foes.
The Saints got off to a good start in doubles play as Carlos Anez and Ondrej Nice paired up for an 8-4 win at #1 and Przemek Zielinski and Duro Opacic did the same at #3 to give Seward a quick 2-0 lead in the match. Ouachita secured their only point of the day at #2 doubles with a 9-7 win as Leonard Lennart and Dan Kaplan outlasted Seward's Alex Mosehle and Gabriel Nery to cut the Saints lead to 2-1 after doubles was complete.
Seward was unstoppable in singles action as 11th ranked Nice won a swift 6-3, 6-2 match at #3, Mosehle bounced back with a 6-2, 6-3 win at #5 and Nery won a 6-1, 6-3 decision at #6 to clinch the match for the Saints. Anez, ranked 5th in the ITA singles rankings down Lennart 7-6, 6-4 at the top spot while Opacic knocked off Kaplan 7-5, 6-3 to make it 7-1 Seward. The final match to finish was at #4 where Zielinski rebounded from a 7-5 first set loss to take the second 6-1 and the third 10-4 over Luis Chab to give the Saints an 8-1 victory.
Seward improves to 2-0 on the year with the win while Ouachita drops their season opener.
The Saints will have two weeks off now before returning to the courts on February 18th in Wichita where they will take on Newman University and Bethany College.