March 8, 2010

Tiger men’s tennis team has no problem beating Baker

Building off its first wins of the season Thursday at Hesston, the No. 5-ranked Cowley College men’s tennis team defeated Baker University 9-0 Saturday in Baldwin City.
“Everyone did a good job and were in control of their matches,” Cowley head coach Josh Cobble said.
Cowley has won its last three matches by a combined score of 27-0. Sophomore Renato Mendes was the only Tiger tennis player to be pushed to a third set as he rallied from a 6-2 loss of the first set of his No. 2 singles match vs. Baker’s Drew Richter, to win 2-6, 6-3, 10-2.
“Renato had to battle through his match a little bit but finished strong,” Cobble said.
Samir Haikal, a sophomore transfer from Cypress College in California, took advantage of his first action of the season by defeating Baker’s Jared Kurtz 6-2, 6-0 in No. 6 singles play.
Cobble hopes to use Wednesday’s home match vs. Friends University at 2 p.m. as a tune-up before playing at Wichita State University Thursday at 3 p.m.
“The match with Friends will give a few guys a chance to get a match in,” Cobble said. “We hope to get some confidence before heading to WSU on Thursday.”
Results:
DOUBLES
*No. 1 — Renato Mendes/Felipe Pimenta (CC) defeated Keith Pipkin/Casey Glene (BU) 8-4.
*No. 2 — Roger White/Alex Dickson (CC) defeated Steven Donly/Drew Richter (BU) 8-0.
*No. 3 — Joan Valls/Tom Gibaud (CC) defeated Jordan Toothaker/Jared Kurtz (BU) 8-1.
SINGLES
*No. 1 — White (CC) defeated Pipkin (BU) 6-2, 6-1.
*No. 2 — Mendes (CC) defeated Richter (BU) 2-6, 6-3, 10-2.
*No. 3 — Pimenta (CC) defeated Donly (BU) 6-0, 6-0.
*No. 4 — Gibaud (CC) defeated Glene (BU) 6-0, 6-1.
*No. 5 — Dickson (CC) defeated Toothaker (BU) 6-0, 6-1.
*No. 6 — Samir Haikal (CC) defeated Kurtz (BU) 6-2, 6-0.
EXHIBITION
*Valls (CC) defeated Matt Kliewer (BU) 6-0, 6-1.