Click here for full results each dayRICHARDSON ? Midwestern State will host the Lone Star Conference Individual Tennis Championships for the fifth straight year this Friday and Saturday at two locations in Wichita Falls.
The tournament includes six singles flights and three doubles flights. Taking part in the event along with MSU are men's teams from Abilene Christian, East Central and Cameron. Women's teams competing include host MSU, Abilene Christian, Cameron, Tarleton State and East Central.
Play will start Friday morning on the courts at MSU and Hamilton Park. The opening round and semifinal round in all flights is set for Friday with the championships matches on Saturday.
ACU has thoroughly dominated the women's portion of the tournament the last two years, winning 17 of 18 possible conference championships in the last two seasons. The only championship the Wildcats haven't won in the last two years is the No. 4 singles championship in 2006. Last year, though, the Wildcats won all six singles and all three doubles titles.
ACU senior Irene Squillaci enters the tournament as the league's two-time defending champion at both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles. She teamed with Aina Rafolo to win the last two doubles championships, and this year she's likely to team with sophomore Jaclyn Walker as she goes for three straight conference titles in both singles and doubles. Squillaci won the Wilson / ITA South Central Region singles championship last weekend in Abilene, rallying past Northeastern State's top-seeded Zuzanna Osinska in the final. Osinska and her doubles teammate, Emina Spirtovic, however, got some measure of revenge, rallying from a set down in the doubles championship to knock off the top-seeded team of Squillaci and Walker.
On the men's side, ACU's
Juan Nunez is the defending LSC singles champion, and he and doubles partner
Ryan Hudson are the defending LSC champion in doubles. Nunez and Hudson won the Wilson / ITA South Central Region doubles championship two weekends ago in Maryville, Mo.
