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For Immediate Release 28 February 2002
JOPLIN
and SPRINGFIELD – Southwest Baptist’s men’s
tennis team will travel to Joplin to face No. 11 Ouachita
Baptist on Saturday, March 1 at 9 a.m. at the Millenium Tennis
Center. The Bearcats will then play No. 1 Drury on Sunday,
March 1 at 3 p.m. in Springfield at the Cooper Tennis Center.
No. 13 SBU is coming off a 6-3 win over Oral Roberts last
Saturday. The win over the NCAA Division I member put SBU
at 3-1 this season.
The Bearcats’ first and second seeded doubles claimed
victories on Saturday over ORU. Andras Bori and Mark Eori
paired up for a 8-1 victory over Jared Welch and Matt Munson
to stretch their undefeated record this spring to 4-0.
They are ranked No. 1 in the nation. Dante Cipulli and Johan
Nortje defeated ORU’s Chris Moore and Wessel Kemp, 8-3.
They are 4-0 so far this season as well. SBU lost the third
seed doubles to Eddie Paez and Kevin Garlington, 8-3. SBU’s
Peter Joos and T.J. Martin were on the losing end of the match.
The SBU singles were successful, wining four of the six matches.
The first four Bearcat seeds won. Bori defeated Welch, 6-4,
6-2. Bori is ranked No. 3 in the nation in singles. Cipulli
defeated Moore, 6-0, 6-1. Eori defeated Munson, 6-1, 6-2 and
is ranked No. 19 in the nation in singles. Johan Nortje defeated
Paez, 7-6, 6-4. Joos lost to Garlington, 7-5, 6-1, and Martin
dropped a 6-2, 6-4 decision to Kemp Saturday.
The Bearcats only loss this season came at the hands of Ouachita
Baptist on Feb. 15. SBU lost in Arkadelphia, 7-2. The Bearcats
won the first two seeds of the doubles matchups. Bori/Eori
defeated Guillaume Coubard and Tjeerd Star, 8-6. Nortje and
Cipulli defeated Andre Edwall and Pierre Perez, 8-4. OBU took
the rest of the matches. Coubard defeated Bori 6-4, 6-0, for
his only loss this season. The No. 11 Tigers enter the weekend
with a 3-1 record.
OBU leads the all-times series, 11-7.
No. 1 Drury enters the weekend with a 2-0 record after defeating
Ouachita Baptist 6-3 on Feb. 14 and Delta State 9-0 on Feb.
15. This is the first of two scheduled meetings between the
Bearcats and the Panthers this season. The second meeting
will be on April 1 in Bolivar at 3:30 p.m.
SBU leads the all-time series against Drury, 39-8.
“We’re 3-1, snowbound and trying to get as match-tough
as we can,” said SBU Head Coach John Bryant. “We’re
starting to get into good physical condition and by playing
Ouachita Baptist, Drury and Oral Roberts, no one will scare
us.”
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