{"id":2774,"date":"2011-05-03T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2011-05-04T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T02:06:48","slug":"mens-tennis-finish-season-with-win-against-briar-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2774","title":{"rendered":"Men’s tennis finishes season with win"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gustav Hollnagel–
\n<\/strong>The Morningside men\u2019s tennis team was really busy last weekend. They played two matches on the road in Mount Vernon on Saturday, and one against Briar Cliff on Sunday to finish up the regular season.<\/p>\n

Morningside lost both matches in Mount Vernon on Saturday after arriving Friday night to get sufficient rest before the meet. The Mustangs were defeated 7-2 by Cornell College in the early match. They then lost to Dubuque University (3-6).<\/p>\n

Even though Mount Vernon is about five hours away, the team agreed that was not the reason for the loss. Cornell and Dubuque just have more established programs than Morningside.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, junior James Nitz said, \u201cI really didn’t like the drive. But the bonding experience that we had was awesome. We played all right but we probably could have won one of the meets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The two wins against Cornell came from victories in singles by Austin Grundy (6-3, 6-1) and Gustav Hollnagel (6-3, 7-6 [7-2]). Sam Doerr posted a great victory in his singles match against Dubuque (3-6, 6-3, 10-8). The other two wins against Dubuque came from Rosen-Hollnagel in doubles (8-5) and Hollnagel in singles (6-1, 6-0).<\/p>\n

During the match against Cornell, Austin Grundy passed coach Larry Mason in\u00a0the record books for most singles win in a season (formerly nine – ten after Saturday).<\/p>\n

\"\"Grundy said, \u201cI had an idea of where I was on wins but didn’t know I was already that close. I was surprised that I broke the record so soon as a freshman.\u201d The next day, Grundy improved his record to 11-5 (in the spring) when the Mustangs swept Briar Cliff (9-0).<\/p>\n

The Mustangs are now at a season standing of 5-11 (3-4 GPAC) and will play Concordia University in the first round of Friday\u2019s GPAC tournament.<\/p>\n

Grundy looks ahead on Friday\u2019s matchup: \u201cI’m very excited about the conference tournament. Concordia being my only conference match lost in the season, I’m hoping I can do better against them this time around to win the GPAC player of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nitz agrees. \u201cWere ready to \u201ckill\u201d some people in the tourney coming off that win over BC. Good times lie ahead.\u201d The Mustangs can prove Nitz\u2019s prophecy at 10 A.M. down at the tennis courts in Fremont, NE. In case of rain, the matches will be held in Lincoln, NE.<\/p>\n

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