Notables
-Engelstad wins 50^th career doubles match
-CSS matches best start thru eight matches in program history (7-1, 2013)
-Second time this season CSS dropped two doubles matches and won the dual

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ORLANDO, Fla. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's tennis team won two close matches on Sunday to begin its Spring Break Trip.
 
CSS 5, Saint Ambrose 4
The Saints opened their trip at the brand new USTA Training Center and defeated NAIA's Saint Ambrose University (Iowa) 5-4.
 
The Saints won two of the three doubles matches. The No. 1 team of Ernesto Telles (El Salvador/Academia Britanica Cuscatleca) and Brendan Boudreau (Thunder Bay, Ontario/Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate) won 8-2. The No. 2 tandem of Logan Engelstad (Thief River Falls, Minn./Lincoln HS) and Zach Meikle (La Salle, Manitoba/Linden Christian School) came out on top 8-4. The doubles win is Engelstad's 50^th of his career, becoming the eighth player in program history to reach that milestone. He is the fourth player to win at least 50 singles matches and 50 doubles matches in a career.
 
Engelstad then won at the No. 2 singles spot, blanking his opponent 6-0, 6-0. Bryce Gadke (Marshfield, Wis./Marshfield HS) followed with a 6-2, 6-4 triumph at the No. 3 spot. Trace Combs (White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake HS) clinched the dual win for the Saints with a 6-4, 6-3 victory at the No. 4 spot.
 
CSS 5, Lake Forest 4
The Saints wrapped up the day with another 5-4 victory over Lake Forest College (Ill.).
 
CSS began the dual by dropping two of the three doubles matches. The lone winner was the No. 1 team of Serhii Tykhonenko (Kiev, Ukraine/Lyceum #100 “Podil”) and Engelstad by a score of 8-5. They are now 4-0 on the year at the No. 1 spot.
 
The Saints needed to win four of the six singles matches to rally and win the dual. Gadke started things off with a 6-4, 6-4 win at the No. 5 spot. Boudreau followed with a key super-breaker win at the No. 3 spot by scores of 6-4, 4-6, (10-7) to put the Saints up 3-2 in the dual. Boudreau is now 6-0 at the No. 3 spot
 
Tykhonenko kept it rolling with a straight sets victory at the No. 1 spot 6-4, 6-2. Engelstad followed with another win by scores of 6-3, 6-2 at the No. 4 spot to give the Saints the dual win. Engelstad improves to 8-0 in singles this season.
 
Up Next
The Saints (7-1) are off on Monday and return to the court on Tuesday to face both Cornell College (Iowa) and Dickinson College (Pa.).