Saturday, May 11
The UW-W tennis tournament website

Whitewater photo gallery vs. Gustavus Adolphus (courtesy of Jenny DuPuis)

Because of inclement weather, Saturday's matches have been moved to the Four Lakes Athletic Club in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.  The Gustavus Adolphus-Whitewater match will start at 1:30, followed by Trinity and Ohio Northern at 4:30.

UW-Whitewater bowed out in the second round of the NCAA III championship tournament after a 5-3 loss to Gustavus Adolphus College Saturday in the Whitewater Regional at the Four Lakes Athletic Club in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Box Score

Whitewater led 2-1 after doubles play.  Gustavus tied it with a win at five singles, and went ahead 4-2 wins at five singles

Whitewater led 2-1 after doubles play.  Gustavus tied it with a win at five singles, and went ahead 3-2 a win at three singles. Then Ben Shklyar (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) evened it up again with a win at one singles.  With the match tied at 3-3, Whitewater's Mitch Osborne (Crystal Lake, IL/Central) lost 6-3 after being up 3-2.  At that time Warhawk teammate Byron Balkin (Madison/Memorial) was serving for his match at 5-4 but the Gusties' Mya Smith-Dennis broke his serve. At the same point in the match Whitewater's Jake Humphreys (Kenosha/Tremper) had fought to get his match to 5-3, 30-love when Byron's match ended with GAC's fifth point.

Whitewater came into the match ranked twenty-fourth in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association national Division III poll, and fifth in the ITA Central Region.  Gustavus is ranked eighteenth nationally and fourth in the Central Region.

Several ranked players also met Saturday.  Whitewater's Ben Shklyar (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) is ranked seventh in the ITA Central Region, and GAC's Amrik Donkena is eighth.  Maya Smith-Dennis is ranked ninth.  In doubles play, Smith-Dennis and Donkena are second in the region, Shklyar-Osborne third, Leisner-Johnson seventh, and Bayliss-McGlashen eleventh.  In the matches involving ranked players, Whitewater won twice and Gustavus twice.

Gustavus advances to play the winner of Trinity University (TX) and Ohio Northern, which is being played tonight.  That regional title match is set for 12:00 Sunday on the Wangerin Courts on the UW-W campus.  Please watch the UW-W tennis tournament website for any weather related changes to the venue and/or time. 

Whitewater finishes the season with a 19-12 dual meet record.  The Warhawks were making their seventh consecutive NCAA III tournament appearance.

Friday, May 10
The first round match between Ohio Northern University and Concordia University-Wisconsin will be delayed one hour because of wet courts.  The match, originally set for 12:00 on the Wangerin Courts on the UW-W campus, has been rescheduled to start at 1:00.  UW-Whitewater's regional website

Ohio Northern defeated Concordia (WI) 5-0 in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament Friday at the Wangerin Courts in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

The number two doubles team of Josh Saunders and John Mostowy of ONU was the first doubles team to finish with an 8-4 victory over Russell Johnson and Terry Jones of Concordia.  Saunders and Mostowy improve to 16-1 as a doubles team this season.  Three doubles was a closer match with Blake Troller and Sam Prewitt of ONU pulling away with a 9-7 win over Antoine Leon and Garrett Wells.  The top doubles flight was closer yet with Do Thai and Joey Frank topping Taylor Shaffer and Skip Turner 9-8 (7-4).

Mostowy and Troller won at four and five singles, respectively, each with a score of 6-1, 6-1 to give the Polar Bears the 5-0 victory.

Ohio Northern advances to play Trinity (TX) in the second round on Saturday at 3 pm at Wangerin Courts in Whitewater.

Preview
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men's tennis team, ranked twenty-fourth, will host a NCAA Division III regional Friday-Sunday, May 10-12 on the Wangerin Courts south of Williams Center/Kachel Fieldhouse on the UW-W campus. Whitewater will host five of the 44 teams in the NCAA III Championship field.

UW-Whitewater's regional website (Times Updated-May 7)

Ohio Northern University, 18-4 in dual meets, will play Concordia University-Wisconsin, 16-9, in a first round match Friday at 12 pm.  Trinity University (TX), 18-9, received a first round bye and will play the winner of Ohio Northern-Concordia Saturday at 3 pm.  UW-Whitewater, 19-11, will meet Gustavus Adolphus College, 19-11, in another second round match Saturday at 12 pm.  Saturday's winners will meet Sunday at 12 pm for the right to advance to the finals site. 

Three of the teams in the Whitewater regional, in addition to UW-W, are nationally ranked by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.  Trinity is eighth in the ITA national poll, Gustavus Adolphus is eighteenth, and UW-Whitewater is twenty-eighth.

UW-Whitewater is making its seventh consecutive NCAA III postseason appearance.  The Warhawks have advanced to the second round five times and to the third round in 2011.  UW-W is 6-6 all-time in NCAA play.

Whitewater has prepared for the national tournament with a demanding schedule.  The Warhawks lost four matches to NCAA Division I opponents, and went 1-6 against teams ranked in the ITA Division III poll.  The Warhawks lost to Gustavus Adolphus 6-3 March 9 on the Gusties' home court in St. Peter, Minnesota. UW-W enters the NCAA III tourney on a twelve match win streak that includes a 6-3 home court win over thirtieth ranked University of Chicago.

Whitewater's lineup has included Ben Shklyar (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) (14-10) at one singles, Byron Balkin (Madison/Memorial) (10-17) at two, Andy McGlashen (Southampton, England/) (20-12) at three, Jake Humphreys (Kenosha/Tremper) (21-7) in flight four, Andrew Bayliss (Sheboygan/North) (19-12) in five, and Mitch Osborne (Crystal Lake, IL/Central) (24-8) in flight six.  Brian Klein (Brookfield/East) (14-3) has played in the five and six singles spot.  In doubles play recently, UW-W has gone with Osborne and Shklyar (15-8) at one doubles, Bayliss and McGlashen (10-1) at two, and Balkin and Humphreys (8-0) in the third flight.  UW-W has also used Balkin and Osborne (9-4), Balkin and Bayliss (5-7), and Humphreys and McGlashen (5-7). 

Gustavus Adolphus received the automatic berth from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Concordia is the representative of the Northern Athletics Conference, Ohio Northern is the Ohio Athletic Conference qualifier, and Trinity won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.  The other schools are from pool B (independents or schools from conferences that do not have an automatic qualifier) and pool C (schools that did not receive their conference automatic bid).  UW-W is a pool B selection because the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference does not sponsor men's tennis.

The Whitewater regional winner will join seven other regional titlists for the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship match May 20-22 at the Stowe Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 


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