DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's tennis team will welcome Martin Luther College to an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) match in Virginia on Saturday.
 
Where:
Virginia Tennis and Pickleball Club – Virginia, Minn.
 
When:
Saturday at 4 p.m.
 
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 8-7, 3-0 UMAC
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Standings | Stats
 
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-The Saints are coming off a 9-0 victory at Crown College last Saturday.
-CSS has not lost a regular season UMAC dual match in 162 matches.
-Elliot Schneider (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS) has won 11 consecutive singles matches.
-The No. 1 doubles team of Serhii Tykhonenko (Kiev, Ukraine/Lyceum #100 "Podil") and Rafa Gonzalez (La Libertad, El Salvador/FESA) has won four straight matches.
-Tykhonenko was named to the UMAC Men's Tennis All-Decade Team on Thursday.
-Head Coach Wells Patten is six wins shy of 300 with the men's program.
-Patten was named the UMAC Men's Tennis Coach of the Decade on Thursday.
 
What You Need to Know about Martin Luther:
Record: 5-7, 2-2 UMAC
-In the last nine matches, the Knights have either won by shutout or lost by shutout.
-Four of their five wins have come against either North Central University (Minn.) or the University of Minnesota Morris.
-Josh Koelpin is 5-6 at the No. 1 singles spot.
-Koelpin was an All-UMAC selection last season.
-Jonah Shulz leads the team with six singles wins, five at the No. 3 spot.
-The No. 2 doubles team of Joshua Schneider and Nicolas Gartner is 5-5.
-The Knights are 30-40 in singles play and 14-22 in doubles action.
-MLC is picked to finish tied for fourth in the UMAC.
 
Series Record: CSS leads 45-3 (Last Meeting: 8-1 CSS – 4/21/2018)
 
Series History: The Saints have won 45 straight in the series, but have not swept the Knights since 2016.
 
Looking Ahead: The Saints will travel to face the University of Minnesota Morris on Thursday in Morris.