Wednesday, April 3, 2013

William Jewell Tennis

The William Jewell College women's tennis team dropped 14 games in nine matches for a 9-0 non-conference victory over Baker University, Wednesday afternoon at Clayview Country Club.

 

The  Cardinals (10-4) won three of the six singles matches 6-0, 6-0.

 

No. 1 singles Kristen Stivers, No. 2 Savannah Drew, and No. 5 Conner Hazelrigg all posted 6-0, 6-0 wins. Katy Lehenbauer  won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3 singles, while Loree Hazelrigg recorded a 6-3, 6-1 win at No. 4 singles.  Senior Jaimie

Baker was dominant in her 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 6.

 

Stivers and Lehenbauer won 8-1 at No. 1 doubles, while the teams of Loree and Conner Hazelrigg and Drew and Baker both won 8-2 at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles respectively.

 

William Jewell will travel to St. Louis, Mo., on Friday to take on Maryville University in a Great Lakes Valley Conference contest at 2:00 p.m.

 

 

The William Jewell College men's tennis team picked a nonconference victory over NAIA and former HAAC rival Baker University by a 9-0 score on Wednesday afternoon at Clayview Country Club.

 

The win improves the Cardinals record to 6-6 on the spring season.

 

Jewell started the match by winning all three doubles courts.

 

The tandem of juniors Shane Giannetti and Bryan Thomas posted a dominating 8-1 win at No. 1 doubles.

Senior Bronson Brassel and junior Max Cooper  picked up an 8-2 victory at No. 2 doubles and sophomore Jimmy Hunter and junior Michael Wiskirchen won 8-2 at No. 3 doubles.

 

In singles play, the Cardinals swept all six singles matches.  Michael Wiskirchen made his singles debut at No. 6 singles winning a tough 7-5, 6-4 battle.

 

William Jewell will return to action on Friday, when it travels to Maryville University for a Great Lakes Valley Conference match at 2:00 p.m. in St. Louis, Mo.

 

Paul Worstell

Director of Sports Information

Head Men's and Women's Tennis Coach

William Jewell College

www.jewell.edu

 

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