lone star conference tennis
LONE STAR CONFERENCE TENNIS WEEKLY RELEASE | APRIL 23, 2015
Contact: Melanie Robotham | Assistant Commissioner | Office: 972-234-0033 x. 103 | E-mail: [email protected] | www.lonestarconference.org | Twitter: @LoneStarConf
MSU CLAIMS LSC TITLE
Midwestern State won its second straight Lone Star Conference Championship with a perfect 3-0 LSC record. The Mustangs are 14-6 overall and have won eight of their last nine matches.
LSC WOMEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Lone Star Conference Women’s Tennis Championship will be held April 24-25 at the Streich-Henry Tennis Complex in Lawton, Okla. Four women’s teams - Midwestern State, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Cameron, Tarleton State - will be competing for the LSC Tournament title. Play starts Friday with women’s semifinal matches at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MSU, the top seed, faces No. 4 TSU, while No. 2 TAMUK plays No. 3 CU. The championship match is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. The tournament format is nine-point matches with three, eight-game Pro Sets being used for doubles and six best of three-sets being used for singles. Six courts will be assigned to each match. All singles matches will start 10 minutes after the doubles are completed. The match will stop when one team reaches 5 points.
TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK WOMEN’S
Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, JR, Ibarra, Ecuador, Los Arrayanes Herrera defeated regionally-ranked Erika Richarme, 6-3, 6-3, in No. 1 singles and she and Marija Dimitrovska earned a doubles No. 1 victory, 8-5, as TAMUK finished the regular season 13-10 overall, 2-1 in LSC play and on a three-match win streak... Herrera is ranked No. 11 in the ITA South Central Region singles rankings and No. 8 in doubles after concluding her junior regular season 12-8 overall (five wins coming versus regionally-ranked opponents) and 14-9 in doubles No. 1.
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
STANDINGS
School Midwestern State Texas A&M-Kingsville Cameron Tarleton State
LSC 3-0 2-1 1-2 0-3
CPct. Streak 1.000 W3 0.667 W2 0.333 L1 0.000 L3
LSC SCHEDULE
Friday, April 24, 2015 (1) Midwestern State vs. (4) Tarleton State, 10 a.m. (2) Texas A&M-Kingsville vs. (3) Cameron, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 2015 LSC Championship, 10 a.m.
WEEKLY AWARDS F-18 F-25 M-5 M-12 M-19 M-26 A-2 A-9 A-16 A-23
Madeline Schorlemmer, Midwestern State Paige Boykin, Midwestern State Angie Torres, Cameron Ellie Stevens, Tarleton State Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville Marija Dimitrovska, Texas A&M - Kingsville Angie Torres, Cameron (2) Erika Larrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville Erika Richarme, Tarleton State Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville (2)
NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s) Cameron
Midwestern State Tarleton State Texas A&M-Kingsville The Javelinas reached lucky No. 13 with a regular season win over Tarleton State, 5-4, to clinch the second spot in the LSC... with the win, the Javelinas closed out their best season in school history 13-10 overall, 2-1 in LSC and on a three-match win streak... all three doubles teams earned double digit wins and four singles players have 10-plus victories... the Javelinas take on Cameron in the LSC Championships, a team they upset, 5-4, earlier this season.
TENNIS
April 24-25, 2015 | Lawton, Okla.
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2014-15 ITA College Tennis Rankings Division II Women - National March 25, 2015 No. School Previous 1 Armstrong State 1 2 Barry 2 3 BYU-Hawaii 4 4 Nova Southeastern 10 5 St. Leo 3 6 Lynn 5 7 Hawaii Pacific 6 8 West Florida 7 9 Columbus State 8 10 NYIT 13 11 Academy of Art 12 12 Cal U of PA 14 13 St. Mary’s 16 14 Midwestern State 18 15 Georgia College 26 16 Flagler 28 17 UC San Diego 15 18 Azusa Pacific 17 19 Southwest Baptist 19 20 Drury 20 21 Northeastern State 21 22 Cal State Los Angeles 23 23 Valdosta State 11 24 Sonoma State 25 25 Point Loma 22 26 Concordia (NY) 24 27 Wayne State 27 28 Queens Univ. of Charlotte 29 29 Lander 35 30 Francis Marion 30 31 Tusculum 36 32 Indiana of PA 42 33 Queens (NY) 37 34 Chestnut Hill 44 35 Cameron 31 36 St. Edward’s 33 37 Goldey Beacom 38 38 Rollins 9 39 Palm Beach Atlantic 32 40 Shorter 34 41 Grand Valley State 39 42 Northwood 40 43 Dallas Baptist 41 44 Florida Tech 43 45 Tampa T-45 46 Newman 46 47 West Virginia State 48 48 GRU Augusta NR 49 Wingate 47 50 Arkansas-Fort Smith 50 National Singles Rankings 1 Dallas Zhang BYU-Hawaii 2 Valentine Confalonieri Lynn 3 Emma Onila Barry 4 Karen Liu BYU-Hawaii 5 Romana Tabak Concordia (NY) 6 Sonja Larsen Barry 7 Clara Perez Armstrong State 8 Kyra Scott UC San Diego 9 Marietta Tuionetoa BYU-Hawaii 10 Lena Lutzeier Armstrong State 11 Beatriz Leon Columbus State
12 Stephanie Hirsch Indianapolis 13 Sabrina Kierberg Nova Southeastern 14 Isabella Robbiani St. Leo 15 Bea Morales Hernandez Valdosta State 16 Kristyna Hancarova Hawaii Pacific 17 Natalie Johnson Azusa Pacific 18 Monika Kochanova West Florida 19 Carolina Prats-Millan Armstrong State 20 Fanni Varga Southwest Baptist 21 Kristina Savchenkov Northeastern State 22 Christina Zentai Southwest Baptist 23 Kiefer Shaw Cal U of PA 24 Kwang Suthikindawong Michigan Tech 25 Petra Jurova Nova Southeastern 26 Rosie Willig Lynn 27 Linda Fritschken Barry 28 Constanza Mecchi Concordia (NY) 29 Alessia Rossetti NYIT 30 Jenna Plevako Queens (NY) 31 Laure-Anne Josso Chestnut Hill 32 Shannon Etten Rollins 33 Mariana Rong St. Mary’s 34 Kayla Casey Midwestern State 35 Ramona Czakon Cal U of PA 36 Magda Riutort Florida Southern 37 Alejandra Cisneros Armstrong State 38 Caroline Nelhage Tiffin 39 Cristina Lopez St. Mary’s 40 Nozomi Matsuoka Cal State Los Angeles 41 Natalie Gennissen Dallas Baptist 42 Samantha Koelliker Francis Marion 43 Adrianna Jeffress Mercyhurst 44 Olivia Nelms Pfeiffer 45 Esther Santiago Flagler 46 Tanya Timko Indiana of PA 47 Leire Martinez Sonoma State 48 Nina Gajdskova Academy of Art 49 Yahsha Moore Wayne State 50 Camila Quesada Northwest Missouri National Doubles Rankings 1 Zhang/Liu BYU-Hawaii 2 Lutzeier/Perez Armstrong State 3 Fritschken/Onila Barry 4 Varga/Zentai Southwest Baptist 5 Tabak/Mecchi Concordia (NY) 6 Shaw/Burrell Cal U of PA 7 Rong/Lopez St. Mary’s 8 Benkirane/Robbiani St. Leo 9 Larsen/Pain Barry 10 Suthijindawong/Cvetanovic Michigan Tech 11 Hancarova/Hoynaski Hawaii Pacific 12 Savchenkov/Husakova Northeastern State 13 Leon/Vitale Columbus State 14 Scott/Mosser UC San Diego 15 Confalonieri/Willig Lynn 16 Kochanova/Faure West Florida 17 Burinato/Rossetti NYIT 18 Briand/Moore Wayne State 19 Prats-Millan/Fossa Huergo Armstrong State 20 Denton/Kruseman St. Mary’s 21 Tuionetoa/Han BYU-Hawaii 22 Hughes/Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 23 Tobar/Utech Columbus State 24 Welborn/Bruning Anderson 25 Kierberg/Sella Nova Southeastern
Division II Women - South Central April 22, 2015 No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
School St. Mary’s Midwestern State Dallas Baptist St. Edward’s Cameron Newman Texas A&M-Kingsville Western New Mexico Texas-Permian Basin Tarleton State
SINGLES No. Player School 1 Mariana Rong St. Mary’s 2 Cristina Lopez St. Mary’s 3 Natalie Gennissen Dallas Baptist 4 Paula Gutierrez Cameron 5 Kayla Casey Midwestern State 6 Ganna Tiurina Western New Mexico 7 Angie Torres Cameron 8 Mariaxi Herrera Texas A&M-Kingsville 9 Taylor Coffman Midwestern State 10 Samantha Wood Cameron 11 Madeline Schorlemmer Midwestern State 12 Kaylin Kruseman St. Mary’s 13 Courtney Anderson Midwestern State 14 Brooke Hughes St. Edward’s 15 Erika Richarme Tarleton State 16 Alexandra Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 17 Kate Bugayenko Newman 18 Jamie Lee Denton St. Mary’s 19 Ashleigh Elward Tarleton State 20 Abby White Arkansas-Fort Smith DOUBLES No. Doubles Team School 1 Rong/Lopez St. Mary’s 2 Denton/Kruseman St. Mary’s 3 McCasin/White Arkansas-Fort Smith 4 Coffman/Casey Midwestern State 5 Hughes/Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 6 Herrera/Dimitrovska Texas A&M-Kingsville 7 Gennissen/Richter Dallas Baptist 8 Pleskan/Villafor Newman 9 Pineda/Nochowicz Midwestern State 10 Elward/Ferraro-Adas Tarleton State
Integrity | Tradition | Academic Excellence | LONE STAR CONFERENCE | Community | Respect | Commitment
Contact: Melanie Robotham | Assistant Commissioner | Office: 972-234-0033 x. 103 | E-mail: [email protected] | www.lonestarconference.org | Twitter: @LoneStarConf
MSU CLAIMS LSC TITLE
Midwestern State won its second straight Lone Star Conference Championship with a perfect 3-0 LSC record. The Mustangs are 14-6 overall and have won eight of their last nine matches.
LSC WOMEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Lone Star Conference Women’s Tennis Championship will be held April 24-25 at the Streich-Henry Tennis Complex in Lawton, Okla. Four women’s teams - Midwestern State, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Cameron, Tarleton State - will be competing for the LSC Tournament title. Play starts Friday with women’s semifinal matches at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MSU, the top seed, faces No. 4 TSU, while No. 2 TAMUK plays No. 3 CU. The championship match is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. The tournament format is nine-point matches with three, eight-game Pro Sets being used for doubles and six best of three-sets being used for singles. Six courts will be assigned to each match. All singles matches will start 10 minutes after the doubles are completed. The match will stop when one team reaches 5 points.
TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK WOMEN’S
Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, JR, Ibarra, Ecuador, Los Arrayanes Herrera defeated regionally-ranked Erika Richarme, 6-3, 6-3, in No. 1 singles and she and Marija Dimitrovska earned a doubles No. 1 victory, 8-5, as TAMUK finished the regular season 13-10 overall, 2-1 in LSC play and on a three-match win streak... Herrera is ranked No. 11 in the ITA South Central Region singles rankings and No. 8 in doubles after concluding her junior regular season 12-8 overall (five wins coming versus regionally-ranked opponents) and 14-9 in doubles No. 1.
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
STANDINGS
School Midwestern State Texas A&M-Kingsville Cameron Tarleton State
LSC 3-0 2-1 1-2 0-3
CPct. Streak 1.000 W3 0.667 W2 0.333 L1 0.000 L3
LSC SCHEDULE
Friday, April 24, 2015 (1) Midwestern State vs. (4) Tarleton State, 10 a.m. (2) Texas A&M-Kingsville vs. (3) Cameron, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 2015 LSC Championship, 10 a.m.
WEEKLY AWARDS F-18 F-25 M-5 M-12 M-19 M-26 A-2 A-9 A-16 A-23
Madeline Schorlemmer, Midwestern State Paige Boykin, Midwestern State Angie Torres, Cameron Ellie Stevens, Tarleton State Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville Marija Dimitrovska, Texas A&M - Kingsville Angie Torres, Cameron (2) Erika Larrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville Erika Richarme, Tarleton State Mariaxi Herrera, Texas A&M - Kingsville (2)
NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s) Cameron
Midwestern State Tarleton State Texas A&M-Kingsville The Javelinas reached lucky No. 13 with a regular season win over Tarleton State, 5-4, to clinch the second spot in the LSC... with the win, the Javelinas closed out their best season in school history 13-10 overall, 2-1 in LSC and on a three-match win streak... all three doubles teams earned double digit wins and four singles players have 10-plus victories... the Javelinas take on Cameron in the LSC Championships, a team they upset, 5-4, earlier this season.
TENNIS
April 24-25, 2015 | Lawton, Okla.
Integrity | Tradition | Academic Excellence | LONE STAR CONFERENCE | Community | Respect | Commitment
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2014-15 ITA College Tennis Rankings Division II Women - National March 25, 2015 No. School Previous 1 Armstrong State 1 2 Barry 2 3 BYU-Hawaii 4 4 Nova Southeastern 10 5 St. Leo 3 6 Lynn 5 7 Hawaii Pacific 6 8 West Florida 7 9 Columbus State 8 10 NYIT 13 11 Academy of Art 12 12 Cal U of PA 14 13 St. Mary’s 16 14 Midwestern State 18 15 Georgia College 26 16 Flagler 28 17 UC San Diego 15 18 Azusa Pacific 17 19 Southwest Baptist 19 20 Drury 20 21 Northeastern State 21 22 Cal State Los Angeles 23 23 Valdosta State 11 24 Sonoma State 25 25 Point Loma 22 26 Concordia (NY) 24 27 Wayne State 27 28 Queens Univ. of Charlotte 29 29 Lander 35 30 Francis Marion 30 31 Tusculum 36 32 Indiana of PA 42 33 Queens (NY) 37 34 Chestnut Hill 44 35 Cameron 31 36 St. Edward’s 33 37 Goldey Beacom 38 38 Rollins 9 39 Palm Beach Atlantic 32 40 Shorter 34 41 Grand Valley State 39 42 Northwood 40 43 Dallas Baptist 41 44 Florida Tech 43 45 Tampa T-45 46 Newman 46 47 West Virginia State 48 48 GRU Augusta NR 49 Wingate 47 50 Arkansas-Fort Smith 50 National Singles Rankings 1 Dallas Zhang BYU-Hawaii 2 Valentine Confalonieri Lynn 3 Emma Onila Barry 4 Karen Liu BYU-Hawaii 5 Romana Tabak Concordia (NY) 6 Sonja Larsen Barry 7 Clara Perez Armstrong State 8 Kyra Scott UC San Diego 9 Marietta Tuionetoa BYU-Hawaii 10 Lena Lutzeier Armstrong State 11 Beatriz Leon Columbus State
12 Stephanie Hirsch Indianapolis 13 Sabrina Kierberg Nova Southeastern 14 Isabella Robbiani St. Leo 15 Bea Morales Hernandez Valdosta State 16 Kristyna Hancarova Hawaii Pacific 17 Natalie Johnson Azusa Pacific 18 Monika Kochanova West Florida 19 Carolina Prats-Millan Armstrong State 20 Fanni Varga Southwest Baptist 21 Kristina Savchenkov Northeastern State 22 Christina Zentai Southwest Baptist 23 Kiefer Shaw Cal U of PA 24 Kwang Suthikindawong Michigan Tech 25 Petra Jurova Nova Southeastern 26 Rosie Willig Lynn 27 Linda Fritschken Barry 28 Constanza Mecchi Concordia (NY) 29 Alessia Rossetti NYIT 30 Jenna Plevako Queens (NY) 31 Laure-Anne Josso Chestnut Hill 32 Shannon Etten Rollins 33 Mariana Rong St. Mary’s 34 Kayla Casey Midwestern State 35 Ramona Czakon Cal U of PA 36 Magda Riutort Florida Southern 37 Alejandra Cisneros Armstrong State 38 Caroline Nelhage Tiffin 39 Cristina Lopez St. Mary’s 40 Nozomi Matsuoka Cal State Los Angeles 41 Natalie Gennissen Dallas Baptist 42 Samantha Koelliker Francis Marion 43 Adrianna Jeffress Mercyhurst 44 Olivia Nelms Pfeiffer 45 Esther Santiago Flagler 46 Tanya Timko Indiana of PA 47 Leire Martinez Sonoma State 48 Nina Gajdskova Academy of Art 49 Yahsha Moore Wayne State 50 Camila Quesada Northwest Missouri National Doubles Rankings 1 Zhang/Liu BYU-Hawaii 2 Lutzeier/Perez Armstrong State 3 Fritschken/Onila Barry 4 Varga/Zentai Southwest Baptist 5 Tabak/Mecchi Concordia (NY) 6 Shaw/Burrell Cal U of PA 7 Rong/Lopez St. Mary’s 8 Benkirane/Robbiani St. Leo 9 Larsen/Pain Barry 10 Suthijindawong/Cvetanovic Michigan Tech 11 Hancarova/Hoynaski Hawaii Pacific 12 Savchenkov/Husakova Northeastern State 13 Leon/Vitale Columbus State 14 Scott/Mosser UC San Diego 15 Confalonieri/Willig Lynn 16 Kochanova/Faure West Florida 17 Burinato/Rossetti NYIT 18 Briand/Moore Wayne State 19 Prats-Millan/Fossa Huergo Armstrong State 20 Denton/Kruseman St. Mary’s 21 Tuionetoa/Han BYU-Hawaii 22 Hughes/Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 23 Tobar/Utech Columbus State 24 Welborn/Bruning Anderson 25 Kierberg/Sella Nova Southeastern
Division II Women - South Central April 22, 2015 No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
School St. Mary’s Midwestern State Dallas Baptist St. Edward’s Cameron Newman Texas A&M-Kingsville Western New Mexico Texas-Permian Basin Tarleton State
SINGLES No. Player School 1 Mariana Rong St. Mary’s 2 Cristina Lopez St. Mary’s 3 Natalie Gennissen Dallas Baptist 4 Paula Gutierrez Cameron 5 Kayla Casey Midwestern State 6 Ganna Tiurina Western New Mexico 7 Angie Torres Cameron 8 Mariaxi Herrera Texas A&M-Kingsville 9 Taylor Coffman Midwestern State 10 Samantha Wood Cameron 11 Madeline Schorlemmer Midwestern State 12 Kaylin Kruseman St. Mary’s 13 Courtney Anderson Midwestern State 14 Brooke Hughes St. Edward’s 15 Erika Richarme Tarleton State 16 Alexandra Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 17 Kate Bugayenko Newman 18 Jamie Lee Denton St. Mary’s 19 Ashleigh Elward Tarleton State 20 Abby White Arkansas-Fort Smith DOUBLES No. Doubles Team School 1 Rong/Lopez St. Mary’s 2 Denton/Kruseman St. Mary’s 3 McCasin/White Arkansas-Fort Smith 4 Coffman/Casey Midwestern State 5 Hughes/Khadzhyan St. Edward’s 6 Herrera/Dimitrovska Texas A&M-Kingsville 7 Gennissen/Richter Dallas Baptist 8 Pleskan/Villafor Newman 9 Pineda/Nochowicz Midwestern State 10 Elward/Ferraro-Adas Tarleton State
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