DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's tennis team will have its first match of the season at the Arrowhead Tennis Center on Saturday when it welcomes Macalester College.
Where:
Arrowhead Tennis Center – Duluth, Minn.
When:
Saturday at 11 a.m.
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 3-0, 0-0 UMAC
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Standings | Stats
Last Action: The Saints defeated St. Olaf College 6-3 on Saturday in Owatonna … CSS began the day by sweeping all three doubles matches and then picked up three of the six singles matches …
Ernesto Telles (El Salvador/Academia Britanica Cuscatleca),
Brendan Boudreau (Thunder Bay, Ontario/Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate) and
Logan Engelstad (Thief River Falls, Minn./Lincoln HS) each earned victories in both singles and doubles action.
Freshmen Leading the Way: Freshman
Ernesto Telles (El Salvador/Academia Britanica Cuscatleca) and
Brendan Boudreau (Thunder Bay, Ontario/Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate) are both 3-0 in singles action this season … Boudreau is also 3-0 in doubles … Telles earned his first doubles victory last weekend when teaming with Boudreau … Another freshman,
Serhii Tykhonenko (Kiev, Ukraine/Lyceum #100 “Podil”) has played the top spot in both singles and doubles and has a singles win and a two doubles victories.
Engelstad Approaching 100: With his two victories last weekend, Engelstad now stands at 99 career wins (53 singles, 46 doubles) … With one win, he can become the fifth player in program history to hit the 100-win milestone … With two wins he can move into a tie for fourth place on the career wins list.
Undefeated Start: The Saints are looking for their first 4-0 start since the 2013 season … They started that year 6-0 … The 4-0 start would be the third-best start in program history.
Upcoming Opponents
Macalester Scots
Record: 2-0, 0-0 MIAC
The Scots have yet to drop an individual match this season with 9-0 victories over Martin Luther College and Ripon College (Wis.) … Macalester has been picked to finish sixth in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) this season … It finished fifth in the league last year … The Scots return two-time All-MIAC performer Josh Doyle, who went 7-2 in conference play at the No. 1 spot.
Series Record: Macalester leads 10-1
(Last Meeting: 6-3 MAC – 2/22/2016)
Series History: The Saints played the Scots for the first time since the 2004 season last year with Macalester prevailing … The lone CSS win was in 2004 on the road … Macalester has only faced the Saints twice in Duluth and both resulted in Scot victories.
Looking Ahead: The Saints have an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) match against the University of Minnesota Morris at the Virginia Indoor Tennis Center on Saturday, February 24.
