Score: No. 2 Keiser 5, St. Thomas 2
Records: Keiser (12-3, 5-0 SUN), St. Thomas (3-4, 1-3 SUN)
Location: Boca Raton, Fla.
Venue: Patch Reef Park



The No. 2 Keiser men's tennis team took down the Bobcats of St. Thomas by a score of 5-2 on Saturday to clinch their seventh straight SUN Conference Title.

• Luke Simkiss and Bart Nouws took the early advantage for Keiser with a 6-0 win on court three over Raul Safont Martinez and Alessandro Tabares.
• The Bobcats would even the score on court one with Lucas Ribas and Thomas Andrews downing Yassir Kilani and Jesse Den Hartog, 6-4.
• With the doubles point on the line, Jacob Turley and Luis Leon bested Soufiane El Mesbahi and Geronimo Barrios on court two, 6-4.

• Simkiss brought the match even on court one with a quick 6-0, 6-0.
• On court two, Barrios took his match 6-3, 6-2 to put Keiser ahead 2-1.
• El Mesbahi kept the momentum rolling on court five with a 6-0, 6-1 win.
• Fred Oervad would clinch the match on court three with a 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-2 win.
• The Bobcats would pick up a point on court four before Nouws finished the match on court six with a 6-3, 6-2 win.

"This was not an acceptable performance to our standards and we know it," said Head Coach, Daniel Finn, "Of course, when you match up with St. Thomas, you know it's going to be chippy, and they are going to act ugly, but our guys are better than what they showed today and are expected to play at a higher level of tennis. The bottom line is, whether it was wind, courts, energy, or something else, we have to stop making excuses and start controlling the things we can control, like ourselves. We can't come out flat from the start and expect things to go our way all of the time. Tomorrow we have another tough test in front of us with Army West Point and we will need to bring it."


The Seahawks will have a fast turnaround with a match against Army West Point on Sunday, March 6 on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic.