BENTONVILLE, Ark. – No. 32 ranked Southeastern swept its way to a Great American Conference Tournament finals appearance by downing Ouachita Baptist 5-0 in the semifinals of the conference tournament in Bentonville, Ark., on Friday.
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The win lifts the Savage Storm to 11-7 overall and sets up a championship matchup at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday against the winner between Harding and Oklahoma Baptist.
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SE opened up its lead in the three doubles position with
Matias Vargas and
Milos Vuckovic cruising to an 8-1 victory to take a 1-0 lead.
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The 12
th ranked doubles duo of
Carlos Anez and
Ondrej Nice pushed the lead to 2-0 with an 8-5 win at the one position.
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Danrich Kruger and
Sandro Lena finished of the doubles sweep by picking up an 8-2 win at the two doubles spot.
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No. 74 ranked Lena continued the run in singles play at the two positon with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Juan Moncado.
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Anez, ranked 16
th in singles play, would clinch the match at the one spot with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Dan Kaplun.
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SE took the first set in five of the six singles matches and led in the second set of all four singles matches which did not finish.
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