Depauw University

This weekend, we face off against Depauw University which is located in the distant city of Greencastle, Indiana. This is about seven hours away from Luther and the team really enjoyed spending time together in the comfortable and luxurious Luther school vans. Everyone woke up pretty early on Saturday morning and we arrived at Depauw's tennis center at 7:30 am. After a good warm up on the foreign hard courts, we began doubles play. Number three doubles finished first losing a quick and disappointing match. Number two doubles started off up 3-0, but Depauw proved to be a levelheaded team and came back to defeat the two doubles team. At number one doubles, Sundstrom and Karki prevailed in a tiebreaker that was extremely tight.

We were down 1-2 at this point, but felt that we had an advantage in singles.

The singles matches were very close. Finishing first was number 3 singles. Depauw won this match. Their player was extremely consistent and played an excellent match. The second match to finish was #4 where Mozena was defeated in a lopsided match. Next, Gendron finished, defeating the Depauw #5 player. Burman was defeated at #6 singles, but Whiteley won at #2 singles and Sundstrom also won at #1 singles. Theses were great wins for our #1 and 2 players.

This was a hard match to swallow for us, but we came back in the afternoon with a good attitude and defeated Grand Valley State in another close match.