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PREVIEW: Tennis Teams to Take on Conference Rival Northwestern

| By: Jesse Robinson
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's and women tennis teams will face Northwestern College in an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) matchup on Thursday featuring the conference's two best teams.

Match Schedule
Thursday:
Men vs. Northwestern – 3:30 p.m.
Women vs. Northwestern – 3:30 p.m.

Men

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About the Saints
Record: 9-6, 1-0 UMAC

  • The Saints defeated North Central University in the conference opener on Friday at the Arrowhead Tennis Center, giving up just two games in the victory.
  • CSS enters Thursday's contest having not lost a conference regular season dual match since the 1997 season, a string of 106 straight dual match victories.
  • The strength this season for the Saints has been their depth with a combined record of 32-13 at No. 4, 5 and 6 singles.
  • Guthrie Coughlin (Staples, Minn./Staples-Motley HS) has won four straight singles matches.
  • The No. 3 doubles team of Tyler Bates (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Tech) and Cody Mauston (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS) has won a team-high seven matches.

About the Eagles
Record: 4-7, 1-0 UMAC

  • Northwestern opened conference play on Tuesday with a 9-0 victory over Bethany Lutheran College. The Eagles dropped just four games in the victory.
  • The only common non-conference opponent has been Concordia College-Moorhead as the Saints defeated the Cobbers 7-2, while the Eagles fell 5-4.
  • David Knight has recorded seven wins at No. 1 singles, including three straight victories. Knight was the 2011 UMAC Player of the Year.
  • The No. 1 doubles team of Knight and Keagan Blancke has sixth wins this season.

Last Meeting: (CSS Record vs. Northwestern: 39-1)
  • The Saints have won 39 straight against the Eagles with the lone loss coming in 1994 by an 8-1 decision.
  • CSS narrowly defeated the Eagles 5-4 in last year's UMAC Championship match.


Women

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About the Saints
Record: 9-4, 1-0 UMAC

  • The Saints enter Thursday's dual match winners of six of their last seven matches.
  • CSS is coming off a 9-0 victory over North Central University on Friday in the conference opener. The Saints were perfect, not dropping a single game in the nine matches.
  • CSS has never been defeated in UMAC play, since the league was established in 1997. The streak is currently at 102 matches.
  • Hillary Bungarden (Hibbing, Minn./Hibbing HS) has won seven straight matches at No. 1 singles and has a team-high 11 wins overall.
  • Bungarden, only a junior, is tied for the sixth-most singles wins in a career in program history (48). She has already broken the program record for most wins in a career at the No. 1 singles flight (25).
  • Senior Megan Lawrence (Park Rapids, Minn./Park Rapids HS) is second on the team with 10 wins, including six straight.
  • CSS is 57-21 in singles matches this spring.
  • Bungarden has teamed with Alexis Gunderson (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS) at no.1 doubles and lead the squad with eight victories.

About the Eagles
Record: 4-4, 1-0 UMAC

  • Northwestern is coming off a 9-0 victory over Bethany Lutheran College on Tuesday in the conference opener.
  • The Eagles have won four of their last five dual matches.
  • Megan Johnson leads Northwestern at No. 1 singles with a 5-3 record.
  • Megan Johnson and Kelly Johnson lead the team with four wins at No. 1 doubles.
  • Northwestern is two matches above .500 in both singles and doubles play this spring.


Last Meeting: (CSS Record vs. Northwestern: 31-0)

  • The Saints have never lost to the Eagles and the most matches Northwestern have ever won against CSS in a dual match has been three.
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