DURANT, Okla. – No. 31 Southeastern dropped a trio of hard fought doubles matches and struggled to recover in a 5-1 loss to No. 16 Midwestern State over the weekend at the Southeastern tennis Complex.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 6-6 overall on the year heading into the Great American Conference opener on April 7 at Harding in Searcy, Ark.
The 12
th ranked doubles duo of
Carlos Anez and
Ondrej Nice hit a rare bump as MSU's No. 30 ranked pair of Dillon Pineda and Nolan Mcaig swiped a 9-7 win at one doubles.
Danrich Kruger and
Sandro Lena were tripped up at the two position, 8-5, while
Matias Vargas and
Milos Vuckovic fell 8-4 at the three doubles spot.
SE slipped into a 4-0 deficit with a loss at the top singles position by Anez, but Lena answered with a 6-1, 6-1 win over MSU's No. 44 ranked singles player Angel Palacios to close the gap to 4-1.
Unfortunately, Nice would fall at the two position and MSU would clinch the match 5-1, despite Kruger and Vargas holding leads at the four and five positions.
BOX SCORE
#16 Midwestern State (14-4) def. #31 Southeastern Oklahoma State (5-6)
Saturday, March 31, 2018 | 1 p.m.
Durant, Okla.
Southeastern Tennis Courts
Doubles
No. 1 – #30 Dillon Pineda/Nolan McCaig (MSU) def. #12
Carlos Anez/
Ondrej Nice (SE) 9-7
No. 2 – Vasudev Vijayaraman/Denney Norrie (MSU) def.
Danrich Kruger/
Sandro Lena (SE) 8-5
No. 3 – #23 Alex Martinez Roca/Angel Palacios (MSU) def.
Matias Vargas/
Milos Vuckovic (SE) 8-4
Singles
No. 1 – #27 Vasudev Vijayaraman (MSU) def. #12
Carlos Anez (SE) 6-3, 6-1
No. 2 – Dillon Pineda (MSU) def.
Ondrej Nice (SE) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
No. 3 –
Sandro Lena (SE) def. #44 Angel Palacios (MSU) 6-1, 6-1
No. 4 – Nolan McCaig (MSU) vs.
Danrich Kruger (SE) 3-5 (unfinished)
No. 5 – Jean Muniz (MSU) vs.
Matias Vargas (SE) 1-5 (unfinished)
No. 6 – Alex Martinez Roca (MSU) vs.
Jeremy Despont (SE) 4-1 (unfinished)
Order of finish: Doubles (3, 1, 2); Singles (1, 3, 2)
