MARSHALL, Texas – Looking to bounce back from a difficult loss to The University of Texas Dallas, the East Texas Baptist University men's tennis team will travel to San Antonio, Texas to take on #17 Trinity University. This is the fifth match in a 10-match road trip for ETBU in February and March. ETBU is currently 3-1 overall.
After starting the season 2-0, ETBU traveled to Dallas this past weekend to take on Howard Payne University and UTD. ETBU went undefeated in doubles play on Friday as
John Herr/
Adam Morris (#1) won 8-3 and
Ty Tarver/
Joseph Salinas (#2) won 8-0 against HPU.
Andrew Deutsch/
Tyler Howard (#3) won 8-1. ETBU also went on to sweep all singles matches with
Joseph Salinas (#1) winning 6-0, 6-1. Morris (#2) won 6-0, 6-3, Herr (#3) 6-0, 6-1,
Tyrese Sheffield (#4) 6-1, 6-1.
Dalton Barron (#5) won 6-0, 6-1, and
Reid Adams (#6) won 6-0, 6-0.
Day two was not kind to the Tigers as they fell to UTD 7-2. Picking up points for the Tigers were Deutsch/Howard (#3) who came away with an 8-3 win in doubles play. Herr (#3) earned the Tigers their second point as he came away win a 6-3, 7-5 win in singles play.
ETBU will face Trinity at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday in San Antonio.