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This Month in Men's Tennis
SEATTLE U
Matt Alderson and Connor Leahy won five straight doubles consolation matches to win the consolation bracket at the Boise State Dar Walters Classic. Ian Clare and Jeremiah Kalmus advanced as far as the QF's of the consolation singles draw the same weekend. Connor Leahy, Matt Alderson, Ian Clare, Tanner Berkabile, and John Stormans made their first trip to ITA Regionals at the end of October while Clare and Alderson earned three-set victories in the singles main draw.
UTRGV
The Vaquero men closed out their fall season after competing at the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational and the ITA Texas Regional last month. At the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational, the Vaqueros won two doubles championships
with the team of Juan Cruz Soria and Elliot Johnstone partnered to win the Flight One doubles championship and Ethan Ammon and Yehonatan Kaufman teamed up to win the Flight Two doubles championship. At the ITA Regional, Koby Jansen led the way as he advanced to the third round of the consolation round before falling to Texas' Julian Zlobinsky. Soria led the Vaqueros this fall season with six singles victories and eight doubles victo- ries. The Vaqueros now begin to prepare for the spring dual match season.
WAC PLAYER OF THE MONTH
Missouri-Kansas City's Airam Castellano has been named Western Athletic Conference Tennis Player of the Month, respectively, for October.
Castellano, a sophomore from Gran Canaria, Spain (IES Perez Galdos) won the singles bracket at the Omaha Intercollegiate in the A Flight on October 2-3, before advancing to the round of 32 at the ITA Central Regionals on Oct. 15-16. He defeated players from Omaha, North Dakota and Creighton in Omaha. Castellano then defeated players from SIU Edwardsville and Iowa in the ITA singles bracket, before falling to regionally No. 6 ranked Lucas Gerch of Oklahoma State. In doubles play, along with partner Mike Lucas Gerch of Oklahoma State. In doubles play, along with partner Mike Psarros, the pair defeated a good Drake team, before rolling past a squad from Southern Illinois. They eventually fell in the round of 16 to Arkansas duo Robles and Herndon in a tiebreaker. It matched the furthest a doubles team has ever advanced at the ITA Regionals for UMKC.
OTHER MEN'S NOMINEES
NM State's Christofer Goncalves won the Cherry flight in singles at the Balloon Fiesta Invite for NM State, reeling off three-straight victories to claim one of four flight championships for the Aggies. He also took a seven- match winning streak into the USTA/ITA Mountain Regional Champion- ships before falling to Utah's Matt Cowley in a three-set thriller 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Matt Anderson from Seattle U earned five straight doubles victories at the Dar Walters Classic to win the consolation doubles title. One of just two Redhawks to earn singles victories in the main draw at ITA Regionals against some of the region's best competition. UT Rio Grande Valley's Juan Cruz Soria went 3-2 in singles and 3-1 in doubles in the month of October. He recorded a pair of his wins at the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational after beating Lamar's Benny Schweizer and Jeandre Hoogenboezem in Flight One and then recorded a win in the opening round at the ITA Regional over SMU's Alex Reinke. In doubles, Soria teamed with Elliot Johnstone at the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational where they won three straight matches to win the Flight One doubles championship.
This Month in Women's Tennis
SEATTLE U
The Redhawk women finished their fall season in the month of October, taking their second straight trip to ITA Regionals at Stanford (Michelle Lui, Kelli Woodman, Madison Maloney, Barbara Carey represented the Red- hawks in Palo Alto against some of the region's best). Michelle Lui earned a victory in open singles at ITA Regional's, also taking one of the nation's best players (Stanford's Kimberly Yee) to three sets. Kelli Woodman and Michelle Lui defeated a Pac-12 foe in doubles in Washington State's Victo- ria Matejevic and Holly Monahan at ITA Regionals.
UTRGV
The Vaquero women closed out their fall schedule with the Texas State Play Date and the ITA Texas Regional last month. Reegan Greenwood and Na- tacha Minc led the Vaqueros with first and third place finishes. As a team, the Vaqueros combined for eight victories at the Texas State Play Date. At the rain-shortened ITA Regional, Dominique Ibarra posted an opening round win in singles victory over Sam Houston State's Carrie Casey. The Vaqueros now begin to prepare for their spring dual match season.
WAC PLAYER OF THE MONTH
Seattle U's Michelle Lui has been named Western Athletic Conference Tennis Players of the Month, respectively, for October. This is Lui's second honor this fall.
Lui, a sophomore from Bellebue, Wash. (Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart) earned a victory in open singles at ITA Regional's, also taking one of the nation's best players (Stanford's Kimberly Yee) to three sets. Also earned a victory in the team's first dual of the year vs. PLU to open the month of October. With Woodman, defeated Pac-12 foe Washington State's Matejevic & Monahan.
OTHER WOMEN'S NOMINEES
UT Rio Grande Valley's Dominique Ibarra went 2-2 in singles and 1-1 in doubles last month. She recorded a 5-7, 6-1, 10-3 victory over Texas State's Joy Chia Ming Ming at the Texas State Play Date. Ibarra then opened the ITA Regional with a 6-3, 6-4 win in the first round over Sam Houston State's Carrie Casey. In doubles, she teamed with Dominique Esparza to pick up an 8-1 victory over Prairie View A&M's Trinity Randolph and Shaddae Findley.
WAC CHAMPIONSHIP
The 2015 WAC Tennis Championship travels to Brownsville, Texas from April 29th to May 1st. This year's championships will be hosted by Texas Rio Grand Valley. The New Mexico State men will look to repeat a WAC title. The Grand Canyon women won the regular season while New Mexico State won the tournament last season.