Men's Box Score  ~ Women's Box Score

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Truman tennis teams lost on Sunday to Rockhurst University in both men's and women's action. The men fell 8-1 to the Hawks while the women dropped a 7-2 decision to the non-conference opponents.

The number two doubles team of Adam King and Kirk Schlueter picked up the men's only victory of the match with a tightly contested 9-8 (9-7) victory over John Lazenby and Victor Klintcharov. All six singles matches were decided in straight sets.

The men fall to 4-6 while the Hawks are 14-1.

Ellen Russell and Dagmar Velez collected the two points for the women against the Hawks. Russel was a 7-5, 6-2 winner while Velez played a marathon match winning 7-5, 6-7 (14-12) , 10-8 over Jaycie Schmidt.

The women are now 3-5 overall and will return to conference action with a make-up dual with Lincoln University on Wednesday.

The men return to the courts on Friday at Emporia State (Kan.)

Saturday Recap

Men's Box Score ~ Women's Box Score

BOLIVAR, Mo. – Both Truman Tennis teams lost 9-0 to Southwest Baptist on Saturday in MIAA action. The teams are scheduled to step outside of conference play with a dual at Rockhurst University on Sunday.

The men had two chances to take an early doubles lead of 2-1 but the number two team of Kirk Schlueter and Adam King fell 9-7 in their match and the third team of Jon Gooch and Joe Murphy-Baum fell by the same score to give SBU an early three match cushion.

From there, the nationally-ranked Bearcats (32 in the nation) cruised to six, straight set singles wins for the 9-0 victory and their fifth MIAA win out of six matches played.  The Bulldogs fall to 0-3 in the conference.

The women couldn't fair much better against the Bearcats as they were swept in the doubles matches 8-1, 8-1 and 8-5 and four singles matches were decided in straight sets. Dagmar Velez won her first set at number five singles before dropping the next two and Jennifer Hawkins won 6-2 in her opening set before being downed 6-3, 10-4 in number six. 

The women fall to 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the conference.