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Women Lose Duals Against Baker And Lincoln
Mustang Men Avenge Prior Defeat
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Kassie Hein |
Marisa Graham |
Morningside’s women’s tennis team wrapped up a weekend trip to St. Joseph, Mo., with a 6-3 loss against NCAA Division II Missouri Western State University on Saturday.
Marisa Graham and Kassie Hein both won their singles matches against Missouri Western State. Graham won in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 12-10, over Nicole Kerr in the second flight, while Hein defeated Alecia Jenkins 6-3, 7-6 in the sixth flight to remain undefeated in singles with a record of 3-0.
Hein also helped the Mustangs win the third doubles flight when she teamed with Dani Bies for an 8-5 triumph.
Morningside, which lost duals against Baker University and Lincoln University on Friday, will play its next dual on March 31 with a contest at Briar Cliff to open the GPAC season.
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Lynn Leonard |
Morningside’s women’s tennis team lost dual meets by scores of 6-3 against Baker University and 9-0 against Lincoln University on Friday in St. Joseph, Mo.
The Mustangs will play another match in St. Joseph on Saturday with a 9 a.m. contest against Missouri Western State.
The Mustangs swept the bottom three singles flights against Baker. Morningside’s winners were Dani Bies, Lynn Leonard, and Kassie Hein.
Baker Results
Lincoln Results
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Matt Ford |
Dane Larson |
Morningside’s men’s tennis team turned the tables on Loras University with a 5-4 triumph on Sunday in Storm Lake, Iowa.
The Mustangs had suffered a 5-4 loss against the Duhawks earlier this season in a dual where Morningside played short-handed with only five players.
Morningside won three of the six singles flights and took two of the three doubles flights.
Matt Ford and Dane Larson were involved in four of the Mustangs’ five triumphs.
Ford defeated Joe Holguin 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 1 singles flight and teamed with Reid Rosen for a 9-8 triumph in the top doubles flight.
Larson defeated Erik Becker 6-4, 6-3 in the No. 3 singles flight and teamed with James Nitz for an 8-4 triumph in the No. 2 doubles flight.
The Mustangs’ other triumph came from Gustav Hollnagel, who defeated Joe Golba 6-4, 6-4 in the No. 6 singles flight.
Morningside, 1-2, will face Augustana College in a dual on March 12 in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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