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Fall 2007 ITA Doubles National Champions
James Vinkis and Andres Nunez

5/16/08

Trojan men finish in 5th place at the 2008 NJCAA National Championships

Plano, Texas The Seminole State College Oklahoma Trojan men recently finished 5th in the Nation at the 2008 NJCAA National Championships held in Plano, Texas. After a strong season seeing the men go 20-7 in dual matches, the Trojans finished off the year with a great performance at nationals. #1 Singles Player Andres Nunez had the best showing in singles play, going 3-1 by losing in the semifinals to #2 seed Paul Fitzgerald from ABAC. The #3 doubles team of Aaron Goode and Andrew Carter finished the year strong, by losing in the Championship to Tyler's Thibaud Aime and Clay Cypert 6-2, 6-3. Even though Goode and Carter lost, they still made the NJCAA 2nd team All-American Team!! Congrats to Andres Nunez, Andrew Carter, Brett Little, Armando Morales, Anton Matveev, Aaron Goode, Jordan Johnson, Nick Stiefer, and Cody Phillips for an exceptional year!!

Complete results from the tourney are as follows:

2008 Men’s NJCAA National Championship Results Team Finish: 5th Place

Flight #1 Singles - Andres Nunez
Round of 32 - Nick Caldwell - Pima CC - Win 7-6; 6-4 Round of 16 - #3 Seed Manuel Mendoza Carette - Collin County CC - Win 6-2;
6-1
Quarterfinals - Taj Harrison - Johnson County CC - Win - 6-2; 6-1 Semifinals - #2 Seed Paul Fitzgerald - ABAC - Loss - 4-6; 6-1; 6-1

Flight #2 Singles - Andrew Carter
Round of 32 - Eric Schroeder - Glendale CC - Win 6-3; 6-1 Round of 16 - #3 Seed Diego Motivar - Cowley County CC - Loss 6-0; 6-2

Flight #3 Singles - Brett Little
Round of 32 - Cody Rood - Hinds CC - Win 6-1; 6-0 Round of 16 - #5 Seed Justin Flynn - ABAC - Loss 6-0; 6-2

Flight #4 Singles - Armando Morales
Round of 32 - Roman Mendoza - Barton County CC - Loss 6-2; 6-1 Consolation Quarters - Jody Vinson - Itawamba CC - Win 8-2 Consolation Semis - Elliot Clark - Meridian CC - Win 8-0 Consolation Finals - Andrew Jackson - Spartanburg Methodist - Win 8-0

Flight #5 Singles - Anton Matveev
Round of 32 - Bye
Round of 16 - C.J. Rusk - Gadsden State - Win 6-1; 6-1 Quarterfinals - #2 Seed Dmitry Kaforin - Collin County CC - Loss 7-6; 6-1

Flight #6 Singles - Aaron Goode (#6 seed) Round of 32 - Bye Round of 16 - Renee Medina - New Mexico Military - Win 3-6; 3-0 (Ret.
Inj.)
Quarterfinals - #4 Seed Oliver Smith - ABAC - Loss 6-4; 6-4

Flight #1 Doubles - Andres Nunez & Aaron Goode Round of 32 - Matt Fesko & George Laura - Glendale CC - Win 6-2; 6-1 Round of 16 - #2 Seed Dominic McLuskey & Roman Petrunin - Tyler JC - 8-4

Flight #2 Doubles - Brett Little & Armando Morales Round of 32 - Sean Cobble & Boomer Saia - Cowley County - Win 6-1; 3-6;
6-2
Round of 16 - #6 Seed Sammy Ramoni & Roman Fulgenzi- New Mexico Military - Loss 9-8

Flight #3 Doubles - Aaron Goode & Andrew Carter (Runners Up & 2nd Team
All-American)
Round of 32 - Renee Medina & Danny Dominguez - New Mexico Military - Win 6-1; 6-3 Round of 16 - #1 Seed Manuel Mendoza Carette & Carlos Viscarra - Collin County CC - Win 8-1 Quarterfinals - Edward Baldwin & Mike Smith - Central Alabama CC - Win 6-3; 6-1 Semifinals - Zach Alholm & Pierre LaGrange - Johnson County CC - Win 6-0;
6-2
Finals - #3 Seed Thibaud Aime & Clay Cypert - Tyler JC - Loss 6-2; 6-3

5/8/08

Lady Trojans finish 11th at NJCAA National Championships

Tucson, Arizona

The Seminole State College Lady Trojans finished up the 2008 NJCAA National Championships today in 11th place. SSC finished the tournament with 27 points, only 1/2 point behind Meridian CC who Seminole State beat earlier in the year in a dual match. Hillsborough CC from Tampa, Florida won the overall National Championship with 45 points, followed closely by Tyler JC (44 points), Lee College (43 points), ABAC (42 points), Collin CC (39.5 points), NCTC (38 points), Laredo CC (37 points), Florida CC Jacksonville (31 points), and Barton CC (29 points).

SSC Freshman Cassandra Kleber was the final girl to finish the tourney, winning todays Flight #2 Consolation championship over Univ. of Arkansas Ft. Smith's Aurelie Meyer. Kleber was down 7-2 in the pro set, and fought back to win in a tiebreaker.

This year's tourney featured 36 teams, more teams than any other previous year in the Division 1 Championships. With 63 total teams sponsoring NJCAA Division 1 women's tennis, the Lady Trojans finish of #11 was a great suprise for the recently restarted program.

Congrats to Cassandra Kleber, Sara Anic, Morgan Whitmire, Brooke Williams, Katie Arnold, Nilsa Ramirez, and Daniela Stevenson on an exceptional year!!

4/24/08

#5 Trojans win NJCAA Region 2 Championship over #10 Univ. of Arkansas Ft. Smith

Tulsa, Oklahoma

After splitting the first two matches of the season with the University of Arkansas Ft. Smith, the Seminole State Trojans took care of business today in the tiebreaker match to decide who would be the Region 2 Champ in NJCAA. SSC won the match over UAFS by a final score of 6-3, giving the Trojans their 20th dual win of the season and the NJCAA Region 2 Championship.

The match today comes only one day after the Trojans received their highest national ranking in program history, coming in ranked #5 in the nation in NJCAA. Also with today's win, it ran the teams overall record to 20-6 overall, a feat that not to many other colleges in all of college tennis has achieved by winning 20 matches.

The Trojans will have the weekend off, and then will prepare for their final match of the season, next Wednesday at home vs. Oklahoma Christian University. OC edged SSC earlier in the season 5-4 in Oklahoma City.

4/13/08

Lady Trojans win NJCAA Region 2 Championship

Fort Smith, Arkansas The Seminole State College Lady Trojans are the 2007-2008 NJCAA Region 2 Champions. SSC swept both the home and away dual matches versus the University of Arkansas Ft. Smith, by scores of 6-3 in Seminole and 8-1 in Fort Smith.

The ladies will play Arkansas Ft. Smith one more time, here at home on Monday April 28th, but the outcome will not matter as the Lady Trojans have already clinched the Region 2 Championship.

Also yesterday, the SSC Ladies team received their highest ever national ranking coming in at #10 in NJCAA. The ladies are 14-8 overall, and will go for win number 15 on Monday vs. UAFS.

4/13/08

Trojan Men and Women finish off weekend with perfect 3-0 records at UAFS quad

Fort Smith, Arkansas Both the Seminole State College Men's and Women's tennis teams went 3-0 this weekend at the University of Arkansas Ft. Smith quad in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

In today's final match against the host team UAFS, the women rolled with an 8-1 win, while the men had a much closer match but found a way to win 5-4.

Earlier in the weekend, the SSC women defeated Meridian CC (Mississippi)
5-4 and Johnson County CC by a score of 6-3. As for the men, the Trojans defeated Meridian on Saturday 9-0 and upset #3 Johnson County CC 5-4.

The win moves the Trojans overall record on the season to 18-6, and the Lady Trojans overall record on the season to 14-8.

Next up: Tuesday, April 15th vs. Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma at 3:00 pm

4/12/08

Trojan men upset #3 Johnson County CC 5-4

Fort Smith, Arkansas The Seminole State College Oklahoma Trojan men's tennis team upset Johnson County CC by a score of 5-4 today here in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

SSC started off the match by losing #1 and #3 doubles, but would fight back to win 4 out of the 6 singles matches to win the dual 5-4.

Coming into today's match Johnson County was ranked #3 in NJCAA, and Seminole State was ranked #7. The win moves the Trojans to 16-6 overall, as earlier in the day SSC defeated Meridian Community College also by a score of 9-0.

Up next: Sunday, April 12th, vs. University of Arkansas Ft. Smith at Ft.
Smith, AR at 10am

4/5/08

Trojans finish off weekend with a perfect 3-0 record, beat NJCAA's #6, #8, & #9

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma The Seminole State College Men's tennis team just finished off a perfect 3-0 weekend at their own SSC Trojan Festival held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The Trojans ended up beating 3 of the top 10 teams in the nation, #9 Barton County CC by score of 5-4, #8 Seward County CC by score of 6-3, and finally #6 Cowley County CC by score of 5-4.

All 3 wins were the first ever team wins in SSC's tennis history over these schools, as the Kansas schools are always highly ranked men's programs in the NJCAA.

Word from Assistant Coach Josue Paz:
"The final match today against Cowley was a nail bitter. We went up 2-1 after doubles, but could have almost got all 3 as we only lost the #1 doubles match in a tiebreaker. I felt very confident about our singles though, even though we had to take out our #4 singles player Anton Matveev to rest a sore wrist. We ended up getting 3 out of the 6 singles matches to win 5-4. I think we could have got one more singles match out of there, but one of our guys just lost a tough one in a 3rd set tiebreak. A win is a win though, and we finished off a great weekend. It was great to beat Cowley, as they were ranked above us in the polls and now maybe we can move up."

Next up: Saturday, March 12, in Fort Smith, Arkansas vs. Meridian County Community College.

4/4/08

Trojans get first ever win over #9 Barton County CC

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma The Seminole State College Trojan men's tennis team just beat Barton County Community College today in the first day of the SSC Trojan Festival. The win is the first ever team win over Barton in the Trojan's program history, as the Barton Cougars are always a top nationally ranked team.

Coming into today's match, Seminole was ranked #7 while Barton was ranked
#9 in NJCAA. However the Trojans knew they would have their hands full, as only earlier in the week on Tuesday Barton defeated the #3 team in the nation in NJCAA, Johnson County Community College from Kansas.

Starting off in doubles, the teammates of Andres Nunez and Anton Matveev got an 8-6 win at #1, Brett Little and Armando Morales lost a close one at
#2 8-6, and the #3 doubles pair of Andrew Carter and Aaron Goode won 8-4.

Going into the six singles matches with a 2-1 lead is always a little bit more comfortable to breathe, but not in this one. SSC got a win at #1 singles by way of Andres Nunez, putting the match score to 3-1 SSC. Things would then turn though with Barton winning the #2, #3, and #4 singles matches and taking a 4-3 lead over Seminole. With only two matches left on court, it was up to #5 Armando Morales and #6 Aaron Goode. Armando Morales won a close 3 set match, to even the score at 4-4 with only Aaron Goode left on. Goode won the first set 6-4, and was taken to a tiebreaker in the second set where he finished it off 7-6.

Words from Assistant Coach Josue Paz
"The guys played great today. Coming off a long road trip last week where we got another pretty good juco win over New Mexico Military, I think this was our biggest men's dual match win in the history of the SSC Tennis program. We have always known Barton County is tough, and have never even really come close to them. Then even at the beginning of the year we saw we were ranked ahead of them, but this week we saw they beat #3 Johnson we knew it would be a tough test. Some of the guys didn't play as well as i wish they could have, but a win is a win no matter what the score is and we will move on to tomorrow's matches against two more top ten ranked teams."

Next up:
Tomorrow, April 5th, 2008 at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma at 9am vs. Seward County Community College (NJCAA #8)

3/15/2008

Lady Trojans go 4-0 on Kansas Road Trip

Wichita, Kansas The Seminole State College Oklahoma Trojan Women's tennis team went 4-0 this weekend on their Kansas roadtrip.

The ladies defeated Newman University 7-2, Bethel College 5-4, Kansas Wesleyan 9-0, and McPherson College 9-0.

The four wins moves the Lady Trojans overall record now to 8-6 going into spring break. Next up: Wednesday March 26th vs. University of Arkansas Ft.
Smith here in Seminole.

3/1/2008

Trojan Men win sixth straight dual match with defeat over 17th ranked Temple Jr. College 8-1

Ft. Worth, Texas The Seminole State College Men's tennis team defeated 17th ranked Temple Jr. College here today at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas.

The Trojans started off a bit slow, and were even without #2 player Andrew Carter due to illness, but dropped only one match of 9 to win by a score of 8-1.

The win moves the men's overall record to 6-3 overall, this their 6th straight win in a row.

Next up: Thursday, March 6th, at home vs. The University of Arkansas Ft. Smith.

2/24/2008

Trojan Men & Women both go 3-0 on Texas Road Trip

Richardson, Texas Both Seminole State College Men's & Women's tennis teams had a very successful weekend in Richardson, Texas this past Friday and Saturday.

The women's team only dropped 2 individual matches out of 27, with wins over McMurry University (Abilene, Texas) by a score of 8-1 Friday, and wins Saturday over Eastfield College (Mesquite, Texas) 9-0 and The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas) by a score of 8-1. The wins move the Lady Trojans overall record to 3-2 on the season. Next up for the ladies will be Tuesday, Feb. 26, here at home vs. NAIA Southern Nazarene University.

The men's team also only dropped 2 individual matches on the weekend, with wins over McMurry 9-0, Eastfield 9-0, and UT Dallas 7-2. The men's team has now won 5 matches in a row, and will go for a sixth on Friday Feb. 29 in Ft. Worth at TCU vs. Temple Junior College.

2/16/2008

Trojans pick up first win of season over NCAA D2 Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Edmond, Oklahoma The Seminole State College (Oklahoma) Trojans picked up their first team victory of the season today over NCAA D2 Southeastern Oklahoma State University here in Edmond, Oklahoma.

SSC started off the match hot as they picked up all 3 doubles wins, with the most exciting match at #3 doubles as Aaron Goode and Andrew Carter took a close one 9-8 over SOSU's Ben Disley and Nikita Ryashenko. The other two doubles matches were not as close, as Andres Nunez and Anton Matveev got a 8-4 win at #1, and Brett Little and Armando Morales got a
8-2 win at #2 doubles.

In singles action, the Trojans continued to dominate. First off the court was the #1 singles match, as Andres Nunez won impressively 6-0, 6-1.
Following Nunez's win would be Andrew Carter with a straight set victory of 7-6, 7-6 over SOSU's Jesse Buchannan. Southeastern would get their first victory next as SSC's Anton Matveev went down at #2 singles by a score of 6-4, 7-6. With 3 matches to go, SSC would take two of the final 3 to win the overall dual match by a score of 7-2. The final two victories for the Trojans would be Brett Little at #4 singles and Aaron Goode at #6 singles, both with very hard fought 3 set victories.

Matches order of finish:

Doubles Finish: #1, #2, #3
Singles Finish: #1, #3, #2, #4, #5, #6