MISSOULA — The Montana males’s tennis group earned a doubleheader sweep over NAIA Lewis-Clark State on Sunday on the Peak Racquet Membership.
With matches for everybody up and down the Grizzly roster and a shuffled deck within the lineups, Montana swept the Warriors 7-0 within the first twin earlier than successful once more 5-2 within the afternoon matinee.
The pair of wins improved the Grizzlies to 7-5 on the season, however stacking wins wasn’t actually the purpose for the Grizzlies. With the guts of the convention season across the nook, Sunday’s doubled-up duals have been extra about fine-tuning the main points.
“It was actually nice to separate the lineups and get all people matches. We acquired to see some new doubles pairs, and even simply attending to see all people in motion is nice as we glance to construct depth,” stated UM head coach Jason Brown.
“I believed the vitality was actually good. LC State is far, a lot improved, and I am actually pleased with our guys popping out and being tremendous skilled, coping with the adversity that got here their manner, and caring for enterprise.”
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Within the first match of the day, the Grizzlies have been made to work for the opening doubles level after breezing to a 6-1 win on court docket three, lastly pulling away for 6-3 wins on courts one and two to win the spherical.
Within the singles spherical, the Griz had little hassle on the prime of the lineup with 4 straight-set wins. The Warriors then put some strain on the underside of UM’s lineup with a pair of tiebreakers, however the Griz in the end pulled by for the 7-0 sweep.
Sam Baldwin and Jake Watkins made their first look as a doubles pair this season and had no hassle with the LCSC’s Kikuchi/Swing pair within the 6-1 victory on court docket three.
In the meantime, the All-Large Sky doubles pair of Moritz Stoeger and Guillermo Martin improved to 5-3 collectively on the yr, clinching the doubles level for UM with a 6-3 win over the Warrior’s Felker/Matyrnyi pair.
Montana’s prime doubles pair of Gustav Theilgaard and George Russel overcame an early problem from Declan Townsend and Cade Edwards on court docket one to drag away for a 6-3 win to cap the doubles spherical. The win improved them to 6-3 as a pair this season.
In singles, Baltazar Wiger-Nordas blew previous Itaru Kikuchi on court docket three for the primary of his two 6-1, 6-0 wins on the day, with the freshman solely giving up a mixed two video games in two matches.
Guillermo Martin then improved to 6-1 on the yr to take care of Montana’s greatest singles successful proportion, with a 6-3, 6-2 straight-sets win over Cade Edwards.
UM’s big-serving sophomore No. 1 Gustav Theilgaard then clinched the group win for the Griz on court docket one, battling for a 6-3, 6-4 win over Daniel Townsend to place Montana up 4-0.
Sam Baldwin quickly adopted up with the primary of his two wins on the day, rebounding from an extended 7-5 win within the first set to cruise within the second 6-2. George Russell was the alternative on court docket 5, rolling 6-1 within the first set earlier than pulling out a come-from-behind win in a second set tiebreaker 7-6 (7).
Jake Watkins completed the sweep for the Griz in bounce-back trend, dropping the primary set 2-6, however successful the second 6-2 and the superbreaker 1-0 (6).
Montana stored the momentum with a shuffled lineup within the second match of the day, rolling to a fast clinch earlier than ending with the 5-2 win over the Warriors.
In doubles, Juniors Moritz Stoeger and Josh Watkins ran away with a 6-2 win on court docket three earlier than Tom Bittner and Fernando Perez clinched on court docket one with a 6-2 win, bettering them to 5-1 as a doubles pair.
In singles, Wiger-Nordas blew previous Austin Swing 6-0, 6-1 to go undefeated on the day and put UM up 2-0 within the group rating. Baldwin additionally had little hassle with Cade Edwards, easing to a 6-3, 6-2 win.
Fernando Perez performed the clincher for the Griz in his first match of the season on court docket two, beating Declan Townsend 6-2, 6-4 to place UM up 4-0.
Montana’s spotlight win of the day would come after the match was already clinched, nonetheless. Taking part in up on court docket one, freshman Tom Bittner break up his first two units towards Dan Felker, dropping the primary 7-5 earlier than rebounding to win the second 6-3.
Nonetheless, within the superbreaker, it appeared Bittner had run out of fuel as Felker positioned shot after shot to construct a 9-4 lead, needing only one extra level to drag off the upset.
However the German Grizzly wasn’t taking place that straightforward,
In an epic comeback, Bittner rallied, preventing off 5 match factors and successful seven-straight factors to win the breaker and, in flip, the match 5-7, 6-3, 1-0 (9).
UP NEXT: Montana heads for Idaho to play three matches in Boise to begin spring break. The Griz open with a impartial website twin towards San Francisco on March 18, then play the host Boise State Broncos on March 19, then end the journey with one other impartial twin towards George Fox the next day.
