YellowJacket men's tennis won a spirited dual 8-1 over a familiar American Southwest Conference opponent Concordia Texas on Friday evening. LETU improves to 3-5 on the season with the win.
 
LeTourneau started the match by sweeping all three doubles matches including a hard-fought 9-8(1) win by Ty Grove and Christian Farris playing in the No.1 spot. The senior/freshman duo is now 5-3 on the season.
 
Jimmie Henson and Daniel Lopez earned an 8-4 victory at No. 2 Doubles. While Curtis Martin and Zac Crowley-Kurth won a tight 9-7 match at No. 3 Doubles. It was the first victory for Martin and Crowley-Kurth as a duo this season.
 
With a 3-0 lead going into singles play the Tornados needed to score to keep the match alive. They would find their only win of the match at No. 1 singles as Ty Grove dropped the final two sets to fall 1-6, 7-5, 6-1.
 
The YellowJackets would sweep the rest of singles play as Jimmie Henson won 7-6, 7-5 over CTX's Leo Marchesi at No. 2 singles. Henson is now 4-4 on the season.
 
Christian Farris played at No. 3 and earned a 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 win, his fifth singles victory of the season.
 
Daniel Lopez (6-2, 6-4) took No. 4 singles, while senior Curtis Martin (3-4, retired) won at No. 5. Fellow senior Kevin Warren picked up his fourth win of the season as he took No. 6 singles 6-2, 6-2 over Concordia's Issac Glynn.
 
LeTourneau will be back on the court next Friday, March 10^th in Brownwood, Texas as they take on another ASC opponent in Howard Payne. First serve in the Battle of the YellowJackets is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.