Owls Wrap Weekend Sweep The 34th ranked Rice men’s tennis team closed out a busy weekend of action by downing Texas-San Antonio and Abilene Christian by matching 6-1 scores at Jake Hess Tennis Stadium on Saturday. The lone loss for the Owls on the day came at the No. 1 singles position. Sophomore Peter Frank [...]
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Abilene Christian dominates Women’s DII Regional
Abilene Christian’s Julia Mongin defeated teammate Joclyn Walker, 63 63, to win the singles title at the Women’s Division II USTA/ITA South Central Regional Championship held at Abilene Christian, September 24-26. Neither player dropped a set and it was Mongin’s second title in as many weeks. She took the The Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational at [...]
Fall Season Begins Friday
Well the collegiate tennis season is upon us, as Fall tournaments crop up all over the country. Many of the “biggies” will play in Midland at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational. The men’s event will feature players from at least 18 schools including Baylor, Boise State, Oklahoma, Pepperdine, Nebraska, SMU, Texas, Tulsa, Maryland, New Mexico, [...]
End of the road for Texas’ Division II teams
The long road ended for three Texas teams, as the Abilene Christian men and women, as well as the St. Edward’s men fell at the NCAA Division II Team Championships at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For some reason, I had completely missed the Abilene Christian women’s loss to fourth-ranked Lynn yesterday. I was [...]
St. Edward’s-Abilene Christian men advance to Elite 8
For the first time since 1998, Abilene Christian advanced to the national quarterfinals – but it wasn’t easy. The match started quickly for the Wildcats, who looked like they were going to easily upset the sixth-ranked Sea Warriors of Hawaii Pacific, winning all three doubles. But as always seems to be the case in the [...]
Senior Day – St. Edward’s, Abilene Christian advance to Sweet 16
I apologize this wasn’t posted earlier, but in the middle of writing my follow-up to the St. Edward’s-NW Missouri State match, I lost my Internet connection. Turns out the wireless access point I have set up at work finally decided to die. It tried this about two weeks ago, but it recovered. Well, my backup [...]
St. Edward’s-Abilene Christian start NCAA journey in Texas
Ed. Note- This article will be updated throughout the day. The NCAAs began yesterday in Texas when the Abilene Christian and St. Edward’s began hosting NCAA Division II Regional Championships. Neither men’s host played on Thursday, but are in action today with a chance to reach the Sweet 16 in the balance. The ACU women [...]
Texas teams and the NCAAs
Ed. Note – I stole this from work. I wrote it this morning for my real job at USTA Texas. Wayne Bryan, father of the world’s top-ranked doubles team, says there are two good things that happen when you take a kid to a college tennis match: they fall in love with tennis as a [...]
No. 7 Abilene Christian women blank St. Ed’s
The St. Edward’s women’s team was defeated by the 7th ranked Abilene Christian 9-0, Saturday afternoon in Abilene. St. Edward’s (7-13) started with a narrow loss in the No. 1 match when freshman Paige Rachel and sophomore Audrey Tompkins were defeated by Jaclyn Walker and Julia Mongin, 8-6. In the No. 2 match, sophomore Mary [...]
No. 18 St. Edward’s men down No. 22 Abilene Christian, 5-4
The St. Edward’s men’s tennis team swept all three doubles points to take the regional match against Abilene Christian, 5-4 Saturday afternoon. St. Edward’s (9-9) started the match in doubles as junior Mick Walter and senior Boris Barrios paired up in the No. 1 match against Luke Hawk and John Strahl, 8-6. In the No. [...]