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SPOKANE, Wash. / WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Coming up
empty on their longest trip of the season, the George Fox
University Bruins dropped both of their Northwest Conference
men's tennis matches over the weekend on their eastern
Washington swing by 9-0 scores, to the Whitworth University Pirates
on Friday and to the nationally-ranked Whitman College Missionaries
on Saturday.
Whitworth (4-3, NWC 4-1) opened up Friday's match at the
Scotford Tennis Center in Spokane by winning the doubles, Michael
Shelton and Joe Wales downing the Bruins' Stefan Lagielski
and Ralf Schulz 8-3 at No. 1, Colin Zalewski and Henry Williams
topping Scott Barnett and Nick Jenness 8-2 at No. 2, and Colin
Barett and Chase Talbot dropping Garrett Thompson and Scott Porter
8-1 at No. 3.
In singles, it was Shelton over Barnett 6-4, 0-6, 6-1 at No. 1;
Wales over Lagielski 7-5, 6-4 at No. 2; Zalewski over Schulz 6-1,
6-3 at No. 3; Kellen Oetgen over Jenness 6-3, 6-2 at No. 4; Barrett
over Porter 6-0, 6-1 at No. 5; and Talbot over Thompson 6-3, 6-0 at
No. 6.
In Saturday's match, Whitman (4-1, NWC 3-0), ranked 20th in
the NCAA Division III and 5th in the West Region, stretched its
Northwest Conference regular season winning streak to 37 in a row
at the Bratton Tennis Center in Walla Walla.
Doubles went to the Missionaries as Christoph Fuchs and Quin Miller
downed Lagielski and Schulz 8-4 at No. 1, Jasper Follows and Adriel
Borshansky dropped Jenness and Barnett 8-3, and David Deming and
Conor Holten-Burke blanked Porter and Thompson 8-0 at No. 3.
Lagielski gave Miller a battle at No. 1 singles before the
Missionary prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 62. Whitman won
the other matches in straight sets as Fuchs downed Barnett 6-3, 6-4
at No. 1; Borshansky swept Schulz 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3, Holten-Burke
topped Jenness 6-1, 7-5 at No. 4; Follows felled Thompson 6-0, 6-1
at No. 5; and Reid Bennett beat Porter 6-0, 6-1 at No. 6.
George Fox (0-5, NWC 0-5) plays on the road again Friday, visiting
Yamhill Count rival Linfield College at 3:00 p.m.
