ABILENE – The defending Southland Conference co-champions and their female counterparts take to the courts for the first time this fall season at invitationals hosted by New Mexico State and Midland Racquet Club.
ACU men's team is split between the sites as it carries an 11-man roster into the 2017-18 campaign. Representing the Purple and White at Midland are senior
Henry Adams, sophomore Nikolas Moceanu, and brothers Josh and
Jonathan Sheehy. The Las Cruces-bound caravan features freshman Joaquin Delgado, senior
Paul Michael Domanski, sophomore
Jackson Fine, seniors
Brad Gleason and
Hunter Holman, and junior
Cole Lawson.
Junior
Sebastian Langdon, who helped the Wildcats clinch their first Southland Conference Championship with a marathon victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, will not compete due to injury. Sophomore
Autumn Crossnoe also will be inactive, leaving the Wildcats with six healthy players heading to Midland – seniors
Lucile Pothier and
Whitney Williams, junior
Jordan Henry, sophomore Sarah Adams and freshmen Nini Memishishi and Illeana Mocciola.
ACU's competition at Midland includes opposition from such notable programs as Arkansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma, Rice, Texas A&M, Texas and Texas Tech.
The New Mexico State field features the host Aggies in addition to Arizona, Arizona Christian, Mesa CC, New Mexico and Western New Mexico. There the Wildcats will pair together Domanski and Gleason, Lawson and Holman, and Delgado and Fine.
Pothier and Williams, who won this past spring's doubles championship at Ojai, will again be together at Midland. ACU also will combine Henry and Mocciola, and Memishisi and Adams.
Williams won last year's doubles crown at Midland with then-senior
Erin Walker after they defeated duos from Nebraska and North Texas. This championship was ACU's first in West Texas since current assistant coach
Julia Mongin won the singles championship as a sophomore in 2010.
ACU's men went a combined 4-5 in doubles at New Mexico State and were 11-11 in singles. Domanski and Holman reached the championship match of the main draw but lost in the finals, 8-6, to a team from Western New Mexico.
Short recaps of this weekend's results will first be posted to the ACU Facebook page once they're received from the tournament hosts.
