Creighton University
Wichita State
Men's Tennis Tops Nebraska-Wesleyan 7-0; Topped By Shockers, 6-1
4/2/2010 10:30:00 PM | Men's Tennis
OMAHA, Neb. - The Creighton Men's Tennis team played a rare doubleheader on Saturday, and came away with a split. Wichita State trumped the Jays in their MVC opener, 6-1 at the Hanscom Tennis Center, but CU responded with a 7-0 blanking of Nebraska-Wesleyan outside at the Koch Family Tennis Courts in the nightcap.
Creighton (9-3, 0-1 MVC) had its hands full with the eighth-ranked team in the region in Wichita (9-7, 1-0 MVC) as J.T. Christian was the lone singles winner, as he topped a previously ranked Vlad Marinescu at No. 2, 6-2, 6-2. It would be all Shockers from there, as they won every remaining match.
Wichita also ran through the doubles side as Valentin Mihai and Sven Kasper started things off with an 8-5 win over Christian and Billy Paluch. Adrian Chermaci and Marinescu took the No. 2 match over Kyle Obermeier and Connor Macey, 8-3, and David Cavalcanti and Matheus Pereira blanked James McAvoy and Ryan Norman at No. 3, 8-0.
It was the same story in singles, as Kasper swept Paluch, 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1. Following Christian's win, Gabe Nagy put up a fight at No. 3, dropping the first set to Mihai, 7-5, before bowing out with a 6-2 loss in set number two.
Three more sweeps concluded the Wichita run, as Chermaci defeated Obermeier, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 4, Cavalcanti beat McAvoy 6-1, 6-4 at No. 5, and Pereira fought past a scrappy Bryan Lube, 7-5, 6-3 at No. 6.
Creighton snapped their brief two-match losing skid in the next dual, as running away with the victory over Nebraska-Wesleyan.
McAvoy and Sean Mathison got things going by taking over the first doubles slot with an 8-3 win over Nate Hope and Mike Larsen. Macey and Norman breezed by Drew Placek and Seth Milburn at No. 2, 8-1, and Kurt Schroer and Shane Monaghan punctuated their first doubles action of the year with an 8-3 triumph over Johnny Landell and Ryan McCarty.
No set in singles was closer than 6-3, as Creighton refused to step off the brakes. Paluch had arguably the toughest match of the dual, routing Hope, 6-1, 6-3. Christian captured his team best 15th win of the season, with a 6-1, 6-0 over Larsen.
The Creighton lineup kept cruising, as Nagy shut out Placek, 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3, with Obermeier nearly doing the same at No. 4, with a 6-0, 6-2 trumping of Jordan Barrett.
It was Mathison who provided the second shutout of the day, with a 0, 0 blanking of McCarty at No. 5. Norman wrapped up the Creighton rout with a 6-1, 6-0 thrashing of Landell at No. 6.
Creighton is off until next Saturday, when they take on Southern Illinois in another MVC dual. Matches are set to begin at 1:00 p.m.
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