Cowley tennis opens season against powerful Arkansas squad

Ranked sixth among NJCAA schools, the Cowley College men’s tennis team got an eye opening experience as they opened its season against the University of Arkansas Sunday in Fayetteville, Ark.

Cowley dropped each of its singles and doubles matches, but Tiger head coach Josh Cobble was pleased with the effort his squad gave against the NCAA Division I Razorbacks as each one of the Tiger’s singles players and doubles teams won at least one game.

“Everybody had real tough matches but fought real hard and showed a lot of promise for the season,” Cobble said.

 Cowley will not play again until March 1 when they travel to Topeka to take on Washburn University. The time off will allow them to get some work done in practice.

“We are going to work on a few more doubles combinations and see where the chemistry is,” Cobble said. “We are also going to work on getting everyone back in shape to where we were before we stopped off in December.”

Results:
SINGLES

• No. 1 — Blake Strode (UA) defeated Diego Motivar (CC) 6-1, 6-0.
• No. 2 — Dmitry Lebedev (UA) defeated Richard Filkuka (CC), 6-2, 6-2.
• No. 3 — Bradwin Williams (UA) defeated Ignacio Velez (CC), 6-1, 6-2.
• No. 4 — Nick Spinazze (UA) defeated Sean Cobble (CC) 6-2, 6-1.
• No. 5 — Branden Joost (UA) defeated Boomer Saia (CC) 6-0, 6-1.
• No. 6 — Connor Smith (UA) defeated Bruce Maytubby (CC), 6-0, 6-0.

DOUBLES

• No. 1 — Blake Strode/Colin Mascall (UA) defeated Diego Motivar/Richard Filkuka (CC) 8-2.
• No. 2 — Chris Nott/Dmitry Lebedev (UA) defeated Ignacio Velez/Sean Cobble (CC) 8-3.
• No. 3 — Branden Joost/Nick Spinazze (UA) defeated Boomer Saia/David Whitley (CC) 8-2.