Men's Tennis - Sun, Sep. 21, 2014 at 12:05 AMCoe takes home IIAC Flight A Singles and Doubles Titles
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College men's tennis team took home the top two titles at the Iowa Conference Singles and Doubles Championships, winning Flight A Singles and Doubles.
In Flight A Doubles, fourth-seeded Brady Anderson beat top-seeded Riley Galbraith (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy) 6-3, 6-7 (3), 1-0 (9) to advance to the championship match. In the other semifinal, fifth-seeded sophomore Alex Bernt (Cedar Falls, Iowa/Columbus) beat second-seeded Kyle Appel of Luther 7-6 (5), 7-5 to advance to the championship match against his teammate. In the finals, Anderson beat Bernt 6-3, 6-0. In the third place match, Galbraith beat Appel 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (5).
It was all Kohawks in the Flight A Doubles Championship match. In the first semifinal, Galbraith and Anderson, the top-seeded pair, beat Luther's third-seeded Foley and Schneider 8-1. On the bottom half of the bracket, fourth-seededRyan Hickman (Hutchinson, Kan./Hutchinson) and Mark Kroll (Castle Rock, Colo./Castle View) beat second-seeded Appel and Jensen of Luther 8-3. In the finals, Galbraith and Anderson won 8-5.
Coe also had a finalist in the Flight B Singles bracket, as Chad Moklestad (Boone, Iowa/Boone) knocked off top-seeded Sam Cychosz of Luther 6-3, 5-7, 1-0 (7) in the semifinals. In the championship match, Moklestad dropped a 6-3, 7-5 decision to third-seeded Anders Jensen of Luther. In Flight C Singles, Chris Schirm dropped a 6-2, 6-0 match in the semifinals, but bounced back for a 6-2, 6-2 win over Simpson's Geoff Converse in the third-place match.
The Kohawks continue their fall season next weekend, as they travel to St. Peter, Minn. for the ITA Midwest Regional.
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