Mountaineers (Again) Show Resurgence at ITA Regionals

The Schreiner University Men's Tennis team continued to show improvement at their last tournament of the fall season in Dallas.

In doubles, freshman Michael Streeter and junior Ben Jackson won their first match, 8-5, against Hardin-Simmons. Their next round was against the #1 seeds of the tournament from Trinity. They hung in there with the Trinity duo throughout the match but lost 4-8. Also, the doubles team of sophomore Trey Hernandez and junior Tory Manchester won their first round against Hendrix College, 8-6. They met up with the eventual winners of the doubles draw - from UT-Tyler - losing the match, 2-8. The last double team, freshman Parker Wells and junior Stephen Franklin, lost in the first round against UMHB, 1-8.

In the singles draw, SU proved that they came to compete and it showed in their play. Hernandez, Streeter, Jackson, McClintock, and junior Danny Okland all won their first rounds. Jackson had a chance to upset a Trinity player in the second round,  but lost in a very close match 4-6, 6-7 (6-8). Hernandez looked to get revenge from the same opponent he lost to in the previous tournament. He fought hard yet yielded a 4-6, 0-6 defeat. Okland and McClintock were matched up against players from nationally ranked UT-Tyler and both dropped their matches. Streeter had the best performance by an SU player, winning his first two rounds and making it to the round of 16 in the main draw. Streeter lost his last match to a Trinity player in a hard fought match, 3-6, 1-6.

The other SU single players, Manchester, Franklin, and Wells, dropped their first rounds thus taking them to the back draw of the tournament. In his first round, Manchester lost a tough match to a player from Southwestern University. He dropped the first set 2-6, but came fought back in the second set before losing it 6-7 (1-7). Franklin lost his first round to a player from Trinity and lost his second round contest to a player from UMHB. Wells dropped his first round to a UT-Tyler player but bounced backed to win his second match 6-3, 6-4. In his third round, he came up against a player from UMHB and lost the first set 1-6.  He then bounced back and competed in the second set before dropping it 4-6.

The Mountaineers are now finished with their fall season and look forward to the main part of the year which begins in the spring, with tremendous optimism for the 2010 season.