Men's tennis action this weekend and FREE pizza on Saturday

Busy weekend of action for the Whitman's men's team as we take on Willamette Saturday 2pm and Lewis Clark Sunday 2pm. Looks like great weather for the weekend (highs in the 60's) so we are planning on playing outside. At the start of Saturday's match we will again be providing free pizza from Pizza Pipeline. Make sure to show up early for some smoke hot doubles and hot pizza!

Saturday we get to see Willamette for the first time this year. They are currently riding a nice NWC streak (5-0) and last weekend defeated PLU (6-3). The PLU victory was a real high spot for Willamette since it was the first time in over 20 years they had defeated PLU in tennis. Tomorrow's match will be a good test to see where we are in the conference. In our conference opener three weeks ago we narrowly defeated PLU 5-4. Since then we have had the opportunity to move around some doubles combinations and play a lot of inter-team matches. I know the guys are excited to be playing a good opponent at home.

Willamette is currently first place in the NWC with 5-0 conference record (5-2 overall) and is ranked #14 in the West Region. Last week their freshman number #1 player Michael Baumgartner was named NWC Player of the Week. From their record it looks like Willamette has been playing good doubles .. only dropping 2 doubles matches in 5 team matches (against PLU).

Whitman is currently 3-0 in conference and 4-1 overall (our only loss at the hands of #1 ranked UC Santa Cruz). In the latest National Poll we moved up to #25 (#6 in the West).

Sunday I'm planning on using 12 different players in our match against Lewis and Clark College. It will be a good opportunity for our entire squad to get play at home.

Hope to see you at the courts!

Coach Jeff