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ABILENE, Texas - Playing in a flighted tournament style competition, the LeTourneau University men's and women's tennis team got their first action of the fall 2017 season at the American Southwest Conference Fall Championships hosted by McMurry University and Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.Â
The women's singles competition has not yet recorded results, but in the women's doubles LETU saw freshman
Katie Hall and junior
Terin Murray team up for a 9-8 (5) victory over the doubles pair of Graham and Kendall from Hardin Simmons University.
Sophia Seay would team up with Shannon Kelly of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor to earn an 8-2 doubles win while the teams of Lauren Rockwall and Alondra Gamboa along with
Maddison Brackenreg and
Gracie Favela will get a chance to bounce back from losses in the consolation bracket tomorrow.Â
In men's doubles competition, the team of freshman
Cameron Wall and sophomore
Dale Wallace II earned an 8-2 win over Barron and Blanco of East Texas Baptist to move into tomorrow's flight E semifinals while
Christian Ball will get his doubles action underway tomorrow with Howard Payne's Noah Marlin.
Nash Best and
Collin Patterson would fall by a score of 8-5 to Brooks and Delao of Dallas Baptist University while
Robby Bundy and
Zac Crowley-Kurth dropped an 8-4 decision to Mason and Tarver of ETBU.
Christian Farris and
Jimmie Henson (8-2) and
Rodrigo Vazquez Chairez and
Daniel Lopez (8-3) also dropped doubles decision.Â
The men's single draws would get through the first two rounds of competition on Friday, with Henson and Vazquez Chairez winning their first match before dropping their second match of the day. All players are still alive going into tomorrow, with Wallace, Ball, Wall, Best, Bundy, Crowley-Kurth, Lopez, and Farris all earning a consolation bracket win to move on for the right to play for fifth-place in their flight.Â
Notable men's matches tomorrow include Henson taking on Cole Weiss of UMHB for third place in his flight while Vazquez Chairez will take on Robert Galligan of UMHB for third place in his respective flight. The flight I men's single draw will see teammates Best and Wall play each other in the consolation finals for a chance at fifth.Â