Barton tennis drops pair at nationally ranked Cowley #GoBarton

Coming off just a day's rest and making the Tuesday trip to Arkansas City, the Barton Community College tennis program was dealt a pair of defeats from the ranked squads of Cowley College.

The 8th ranked Cougar men, coming off Sunday's securing atleast a share of its first KJCCC title simply 2008, needed fresher legs to keep up with the 2nd ranked Cowley men in falling 7-2, while the shorthanded 13th ranked Barton women dropped all six of their played matches against the nation's 4th ranked Tigers resulting in a 9-0 defeat.

Barton's loss on the men's side spoils the bragging rights of an outright title as the 2-1 Cougars will share the crown with the victor of Friday's Seward County at Cowley match. The Barton women conclude the league season at 0-3.

The three, along with Pratt, will battle for national tournament berths in Pratt next Wednesday competing in the Region 6 Championships.

On the men's side, one of the two victories came from the No. 2 doubles tandem of Victor Alves and Shane Tapera in defeating Cowley's Greco and Garla 8-6. The No. 1 duo of Gabriel Garay and Hayden Loffler were in a tight battle before faltering 7-0 in the tie break to the Tigers' Juwan Bae and Dan Hosono. Cowley would complete its 2-1 advantage into singles play with the No. 3 tandem of Pedro De La Riva and David De Hoyos Rodriguez winning 8-5 over the Cougars' Mohhamed Abuzed and Oliver Naude.

Alves picked up the lone singles play victory in the No. 2 slot as the Cougars' 18th ranked player knocked off the Tigers' 10th ranked De La Riva 6-4, 6-2

Barton lost two matches in the tiebreak after winning the first set, the first coming in the top singles matchup as 14th ranked Garay took the 1-0 lead, winning the first set 6-2 before falling 7-5 in the second and 6-3 in the third to the Tigers' Garla.

A similar result came in the No. 3 slot, Abuzed taking the first 6-3 but the Tigers' 21st ranked Greco prevailed in the second set tiebreaker 7-1 before rolling in the decisive breaker 10-3.

Cowley captured straight set wins in the remaining singles, 48th ranked Hosono dispatching Tapera 6-2 and 6-3 in the No. 4 matchup, De Hoyos Rodriguez defeating Armando Sigauque in the No. 5 slot 6-4 and 6-3, and 37th ranked Bae winning 6-0 and 6-4 over Hoffler in the sixth singles position.

On the women's side, the Tigers dominated both of the doubles' matchups with the same results coming in the four singles matches.

Men's Results:
Doubles:
No. 1: Juwan Bae/Dan Hosono (CC) def. Gabriel Garay/Hayden Loffler (BCC) 9-8(0)
No. 2: Victor Alves/Shane Tapera (BCC) def. Felipe Garla/Valentin Greco (CC) 8-6
No. 3: Pedro De La Riva/ David De Hoyo Rodriguez (CC) def. Mohhamed Abuzed/Oliver Naude (BCC) 8-5
Singles:
No. 1: Felipe Garla (CC) def. No. 14 Gabriel Garay (BCC) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3
No. 2: No. 18 Victor Alves (BCC) def. No. 10 Pedro De La Riva (CC) 6-4, 6-2
No. 3: No. 21 Valentin Greco (CC) def. Mohhamed Abuzed (BCC) 3-6, 7-6(1), 10-3
No. 4: No. 48 Dan Hosono (CC) def. Shane Tapera (BCC) 6-2, 6-3
No. 5: David De Hoyos Rodriguez (CC) def. Armando Sigauque (BCC) 6-4, 6-3
No. 6: No. 37 Juwan Bae (CC) def. Hayden Loffler (BCC) 6-0, 6-4

Women's Results:
Doubles:
No. 1: Serena Pereyra/Kendra Arostegui (CC) def. Vania Dotse/Vitoria Campigotto (BCC) 8-3
No. 2: No. 6 Akari Tomoyose/Chiho Takada (CC) def. Diana Souza/Salalee Seejong (BCC) 8-0
No. 3: Cynthia Wanjala/Naghely Garcia Galian (CC) - Walk-Over
Singles:
No. 1: No. 2 Serena Pereyra (CC) def. Vania Dotse (BCC) 6-1, 6-0
No. 2: No. 3 Akari Tomoyose (CC) def. Vitoria Campigotto (BCC) 6-2, 6-2
No. 3: Cynthia Wanjala (CC) def. Diana Souza (BCC) 6-1, 6-1
No. 4: No. 28 Naghely Garcia Galian (CC) def. Salalee Seejong (BCC) 6-2, 6-0
No. 5: Chiho Takada (CC) - Walk-Over
No. 6: Kendra Arostegui (CC) - Walk-Over