The Midwestern Sate men’s tennis team experienced a woeful 6-0 loss against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the McLeod Tennis Center.
While the Red Raiders improved to 10-6 in Division I play, the no. 30 ranked NCAA Division II Mustangs dropped to 5-8 on the season.
“It’s a great opportunity for Midwestern State to get to play Texas Tech, for people,” said Head Tennis Coach Scott Linn. “For us it’s just another match.”
Linn went ahead to explain how MSU’s competition with Division I schools would help its encounter with top Division II schools.
Gonzalo Escobar defeated Luke Joyce 6-2, 6-2 at no. 1 while Mario Urban lost to Raony Carvalho 6-2, 6-0 in the second set. Both no. 3 and no. 4 matches ended with the same 6-1, 6-1 result as Rafael Garcia beat Colby Meeks and Vitor Manzini overcame Tomas Grejtak. Kacper Boborykin lost 6-2, 6-1 to Francisco Zambon in the no. 5 singles, which preceded Jarrod Liston’s meeting with Raphael Pfister  at no. 6.
The Liston-Pfister encounter was quite competitive and would have awarded the Mustangs a win.
“Jarrod has made the biggest improvement in our program,” said Linn. “It does not surprise me at all, I’m very impressesed with him.”
However, the match ended 6-4, 6-4 to the favor of Texas Tech. Linn assured that the Mustangs have a promising season despite last weekend’s loss.
“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” said Linn. “If we make a decision to finish strong, we will finish strong.”

The Mustangs will visit East Central this Saturday. First serve is set for 1 p.m.
Subsequent to the men’s loss against the Red Raiders, the women’s team suffered a 5-4 loss against Dallas Baptist Tuesday.
The Lady Mustangs seized two wins out of the three doubles to start off with a 2-1 advantage.
Taylor Coffman and Kendra Casey teamed up to defeat Leah Rutt and Katie Daugherty 8-3 at the no.2 doubles. Rozike van Rensburg and Lindsey Buenger then combined forces to put away Leah Smith and Arianne Goddard 8-3 at the no. 3 doubles.
Van Rensburg put down Natalie Gennissen 6-3, 5-7 and 6-3 in no.1 singles. Casey defeated Goddard  6-3, 6-3 at no. 5 singles to round up the Lady Mustangs’ victory.
Rutt beat Lindsey Holcomb 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 at no. 2 to commence the Patriots’ comeback while Hannah Innes beat Sarita Adhikary 6-3, 6-3 at no. 3  singles.
But Dallas Baptist wanted more wins to complete a comeback against MSU.Katie Daugherty defeated Coffman  6-3, 3-6, 6-4 at no. 5 singles before Leah Smith rounded up the tournament by beating Buenger 6-2, 6-3 at no. 6 singles.
The Lady Mustangs will play at Central Oklahoma Thursday. First serve is set for 3 p.m.