St. Louis, Mo- 4/6/2024- The Westminster College men's tennis team traveled to St. Louis, Missouri to take on the Webster University Gorloks in the UMAC/SLIAC conference opener and took on the Southwestern Illinois College Blue Storm in a non-conference match. The Gorloks would defeat the Blue Jays 9-0. The Jays would bounce back and defeat the Blue Storm 5-4 to win their first match of the season. Will Morris and Hugo Jover won their #2 doubles match 8-5 and Jover would win his #4 singles match 8-3 to lead the Blue Jays to the win.  

The Blue Jays will host Illinois College on Sunday, April 14th at 1:00 PM. The match will take place at Suzanne Neal Memorial Tennis Complex at William Woods University.  

Match vs Webster: Box Score 

Doubles:

#1 Doubles 

C. PENNINGTON /J. STANNARD 

0 

M. BIRCHMEIER /C. FISHER[WU] 

8 

#2 Doubles 

H. JOVER /W. MORRIS 

0 

E. FOUCHEAUX /T. GONZALES[WU] 

8 

#3 Doubles 

T. BIEG /R. PEMBERTON 

0 

J. FORLENZA /B. MCDANIEL[WU] 

8 

Singles 

#1 Singles 

R. PEMBERTON 

1 

E. FOUCHEAUX[WU] 

8 

#2 Singles 

J. STANNARD 

0 

M. BIRCHMEIER[WU] 

8 

#3 Singles 

H. JOVER 

1 

C. FISHER[WU] 

8 

#4 Singles 

W. MORRIS 

0 

B. MCDANIEL[WU] 

8 

#5 Singles 

R. PEMBERTON 

0 

J. FORLENZA[WU] 

8 

#6 Singles 

T. BIEG 

0 

T. GONZALES[WU] 

8 

Match vs SWIC:  Box Score 

Doubles: 

#1 Doubles: Colton Pazdera & AJ Mills (SWIC) defeated Cooper Pennington & John Stannard 8-2.  

#2 Doubles: Will Morris & Hugo Jover defeated Jacob Vahle & Zach Russo (SWIC) 8-5.  

#3 Doubles: Ryan Pemberton & Travis Bieg won by forfeit 8-0.  

Singles: 

#1 Singles: Colton Pazdera (SWIC) defeated Cooper Pennington 8-6.  

#2 Singles: AJ Mills (SWIC) defeated John Stannard 8-1.  

#3 Singles: Jacob Vahle (SWIC) defeated Ryan Pemberton 8-1.  

#4 Singles: Hugo Jover defeated Zach Russo (SWIC) 8-3.  

#5 Singles: Ryan Pemberton won by forfeit 8-0.  

#6 Singles: Travis Bieg won by forfeit 8-0.