MT v Simpson - Live Scoring

Moved outside for afternoon play!

An ALL-SENIOR match.  Coach announced 7 co-captains during introductions.

Coe 9
Simpson 0

#1 Singles	Zach Kusick	Sean Stokstad	Coe College	63 61
#2 Singles	Alex Hook	Michael Janssen	Coe College	60 62
#3 Singles	Peter Rietgraf	Daken Starkenburg	Coe College	46 64 10-7
#4 Singles	Dylan Hogan	Alex Klaas	Coe College	62 61
#5 Singles	Geoff Converse	Alex Leovic	Coe College	61 60
#6 Singles	Mike Rundle	Tyler Wilson	Coe College	60 62
#1 Doubles	Zach Kusick  Peter Rietgraf	Sean Stokstad  Michael Janssen	Coe College	85
#2 Doubles	Dylan Hogan  Geoff Converse	Jeff Damisch  Alex Leovic	Coe College	81
#3 Doubles	Alex Hook  Mike Rundle	Alex Klaas  Daken Starkenburg	Coe College	81

MT v Dubuque - Live Scoring

Coe 9
Dubuque 0

Doubles:  3-0
1.  Hickman/Janssen v Deering/Calahan  8-0
2.  Bernt/Kroll v Gospodinov/Drummond  8-0
3.  Leovic/Damisch v Kroeger/O'Meara  8-0

Singles:  6-0
1.  Bernt v Deering  60 60
2.  Decker v Gospodinov  60 62
3.  Kroll v Kroeger  62 60
4.  Leovic v O'Meara  60 60
5.  Wages v Drummond  60 60
6.  Young v Calahan  63 63
7.  (Exhibition) Sauter v Dubuque  8-0

Pictures

Men's team takes on IIAC Conference foes Dubuque and Simpson on Saturday.  Women's team travels to play Quincy College on Sunday.  In other words, Kohawk Tennis has a "3 day weekend".

From this evening:

Charlie Kohawk made an appearance at the match!  Laura kept her distance.

Training staff (THANK YOU!) and women's team watching play.

MT v Wheaton - Live Scoring

Coe 7
Wheaton 2

Doubles:  2-1
1.  Sprinkel/Galbraith v Kreis/Ward  3-8
2.  Janssen/Hickman v Ancona/Buursma  8-5
3.  Stokstad/Decker v Mumaw/Trump  8-3
4.  (Exhibition) Bernt/Kroll v Wheaton  8-4

Singles:  2-1
1.  Sprinkel v Kreis  6-0, 7-5
2.  Galbraith v Ancona  6-1, 7-6(8)
3.  Hickman v Ward -  2-6, 7-6, 6-7(3)
4.  Stokstad v Buursma - 6-7, 6-2, 6-4
5.  Bernt v Mumaw  6-0, 6-2
6.  Janssen v Trump  6-1, 6-2
7.  (Exhibition) Young v Wheaton
8.  (Exhibition) Wages v Wheaton

Net Change

An arduous 2 hour process to change a simple net. Who thought up internal cranks anyway? Thanks to Women's Team for the "muscle"!

Spring Lessons

I know I've been away for a long time and haven't exactly made good on my promise to write a few times a month. I picture most people eagerly visiting the blog each day in anticipation of something, anything, from me. But obviously that hasn't happened, and now our dynamic is on shaky ground, "he said he would write but every time I check there's never anything there! It's almost like he doesn't care about me anymore!". No need to worry, it's time to mend this neglected relationship and work through all those hurt emotions you must have been feeling.

As the semester has moved along it's provided me with ample opportunity for observation and introspection and from these things I have gleaned some new knowledge I would like to share (the semester's also provided ample frostbite opportunities which can also lend itself to new knowledge... in pain).

1) Flying

Over spring break the teams made their annual trip down to Florida for a week of matches and a welcome lack of school. It became necessary for reasons still unknown to me to return to work and school and so on Saturday March 8th we arrived at the airport for our flight back to Cedar Rapids... and waited. We ate breakfast and waited some more. Then came lunch followed by more waiting. We got bored and played state capita trivia (Maine's capital is Augusta in case you were wondering) and waited some more. After all that waiting the airline decided we needed to wait a little more and cancelled the flight for the day. Come back tomorrow and we'll do this all again!

The lesson I took from this experience? Don't fly Allegiant. I know that may sound harsh. Flights get cancelled all the time for a variety of reasons, but that shouldn't exclude them from future flight options. All that makes sense because I just wrote it, but I don't care. Flight cancelled in this case equals losing my business. And sure they gave me a hotel room for the night with no meal vouchers and only 1 van to ferry an entire plane's worth of passengers to and from the airport, but I just can't accept all these great gestures as equal payment. It makes perfect rational sense to my irrational mind so: Allegiant is on my no fly list.

2) Biking Rules

Spring is here as evidenced by the calendar and with that come new rules for what is acceptable clothing to wear. After careful mathematical calculation I have arrived at an answer for the question vexing philosophers for at least the past century: at what temperature is it acceptable to wear shorts again when biking. The answer is straight forward- 20 degrees.

I arrived at the quite simply. One day I was tired of putting on layers upon layers just to ride to work, so I said "egh", put on my shorts and rode to work. I survived and saw that temperature was in the 20s and thus came to my new rule. Anything above 20 is perfectly acceptable for wearing shorts while biking. I plan on submitting this as part of the official platform of the American Biking Association as soon as I check out if such an association even exists.

3) Roger

Obviously I'm talking about Federer here. Yes he's been in decline for a few years now. According to some people since 2008, nevermind the 4 grandslams he's won since then. As much as I hate to admit it, the last few years have definitely seen a drop in the Fed's game. Until this year! Give the man a clean bill of health and a new racket and he's suddenly on fire. New rule for spring: Fed's still go it.


I know, he just lost in Miami, but I'm talking about his year as a whole. Federer followed up a title in Dubai by going all the way to the final at Indian Wells. He lost in 3 sets to Djokovic but it was a truly great match to watch. I was fully entertained the whole way through. I'm not saying the guy is going back to number 1 and winning 3 slams this year. But he's shown that he may be a factor again at the major tournaments which makes things much more interesting.

Chad's final hit

Tomorrow first-year Chad Moklestad undergoes shoulder surgery to fix a torn rotator cuff. Today he gutted out one more on court session with Coach Kris. Chad is expected to resume hitting 120mph serves in October.

An Interruption.....

.....in the Outdoor Season

WT v Whitewater

Coe 1
Whitewater 8

Doubles:  0-3

1.  Lucero/Ferree v Bayliss/Jackie Vitale  1-8
2.  Birky/Watson v Humphreys/Upthagrove  1-8
3.  Washington/Hoffmann v Williams/Jess Vitale  5-8
4.  (Exhibition) Sebastian/Lasecki v Franzen/Day  0-8

Singles:  1-5

1.  Lucero v Bayliss  3-6, 1-6
2.  Sebastian v Humphreys  0-6, 0-6
3.  Ferree v Jackie Vitale  1-6, 1-6
4.  Birky v Williams  2-6, 3-6
5.  Watson v Upthagrove  0-6, 1-6
6.  Lasecki v Jess Vitale  6-2, 6-7(3), 10-6
7.  (Exhibition) Fosler v Franzen  1-8
8.  (Exhibition) Fosler v WW 2-8

WT v Augustana - Live Scoring

Coe 5
Augustana 4

Doubles:  2-1

1.  Lucero/Ferree v Goggin/Goggin  8-3
2.  Birky/Watson v Sawyer/MacDonald  4-8
3.  Washington/Lasecki v Andonova/Pence  8-6
4.  (Exhibition) Hoffmann/Sebastian v Augustana  8-2

Singles:  3-3

1.  Lucero v Sawyer  4-6, 2-6
2.  Sebastian v L Goggin  6-7(2), 5-7
3.  Ferree v D Goggin  6-0, 6-4
4.  Birky v MacDonald  2-6, 6-3, 6-4
5.  Hoffmann v Kaczmarek  6-2, 2-6, 6-1
6.  Washington v Bardo  4-6, 7-6(3), 4-10
7.  (Exhibition) Fosler v Augustana  4-8

Men up 3-0 on Buena Vista (@BV)
9-7, 8-5, 8-4

Men up 3-0 on OshKosh at home:
9-8, 8-4, 8-2

The Return

Upon returning to Coe, this was the sight that greeted Joe Monday morning.....

Box Scores

From this morning....

Coe Men 9

CUNY - Staten Island 0

#1 Singles	Mark Kroll	Daniel Ursomanno	Coe College	6-0, 6-1
#2 Singles	Jeff Damisch	Ed Ruffe	Coe College	6-0, 6-1
#3 Singles	Daken Starkenburg	James Chuenpratum	Coe College	6-1, 6-2
#4 Singles	Bill Young	Austin Kapetankis	Coe College	6-3, 6-2
#5 Singles	Tyrin Wages	Chris Pinto	Coe College	6-2, 6-2
#6 Singles	Justin Sauter	Jack Benjamin	Coe College	5-7, 6-2 ret.
#1 Doubles	Jeff Damisch  Mark Kroll	Daniel Ursomanno  Austin Kapetankis	Coe College	8-1
#2 Doubles	Alex Klaas  Alex Leovic	James Chuenpratum  Ed Ruffe	Coe College	8-6
#3 Doubles	Tyrin Wages  Bill Young	Chris Pinto  Jack Benjamin	Coe College	8-4

From last night.....

Coe Men 3

Grand Valley 6

#1 Singles	Francis Bertrand	#21 Noah Sprinkel	Grand Valley State University	1-6, 7-6(3), 6-2
#2 Singles	Andrew Darrell	Riley Galbraith	Coe College	6-4, 6-0
#3 Singles	Billy Heckman	Ryan Hickman	Grand Valley State University	4-6, 6-2, 6-3
#4 Singles	Jack Heiniger	Sean Stokstad	Grand Valley State University	6-4, 6-7(4), 6-1
#5 Singles	Andrew Bole	Alex Bernt	Grand Valley State University	6-4, 6-4
#6 Singles	Quinn Sylow	Michael Janssen	Grand Valley State University	1-6, 6-1, 6-2
#1 Doubles	Billy Heckman  Francis Bertrand	#25 Noah Sprinkel  Riley Galbraith	Coe College	8-6
#2 Doubles	Quinn Sylow  Jack Heiniger	Ryan Hickman  Michael Janssen	Grand Valley State University	8-3
#3 Doubles	Andrew Darrell  Ben Esh-Nauta	Sean Stokstad  Zack Decker	Coe College	8-5

Friday Play

The women's match against Grand Valley was called last night near the
start of singles. Coe was down 3-0 after the doubles.
4-8, 3-8, 1-8

The men, at a different site, were able to sneak their entire match
in; found themselves battling until late in the evening (11 PM finish). Up 2-1 after
doubles. Lost 6-3 in the end, but 4 of those losses were in 3rd set
marathon matches. Riley defeated his opponent 6-4, 6-0; avenging a
loss from last year.

Up and at it again this morning.  Men playing CUNY-Staten Island and up
3-0 at the moment.
Jeff/Kroll 8-1
Klaas/Leo 8-6
Bill/Tyrin 8-4

Singles on court now....
Kroll
Jeff
Daken
Bill
Tyrin
Justin

Men face off against Presbyterian this afternoon.

Ladies off today.

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Finally....

....get to play tennis today.

Due to rain this morning and afternoon, the Men's match vs Trine and
the Women's match vs Cedarville were cancelled. Waiting for the courts
to dry now. The men and women will then face off against Grand Valley
at two different sites.

Kaitlin and Jordan shopping earlier in the day:

Spring Break - Wednesday Update

Players off today.  Many of them choosing to spend time with family; the remaining split between two vans....one headed to the beach, and the other to the Outlet Mall / Universal.  Pictures to come.

Box scores from MT yesterday.  Of note, the men beating D2 Eckerd.

Coe 6
Eckerd 3

#1 Singles	#21 Noah Sprinkel	Yosua Adiyasa	Coe College	26 63 63
#2 Singles	Riley Galbraith	Nikita Valuiskikh	Coe College	36 63 75
#3 Singles	Sean Stokstad	Frazier Springfield	Eckerd College	63 64
#4 Singles	Alex Bernt	Stephen Felman	Coe College	63 62
#5 Singles	Michael Janssen	Luke Burton	Coe College	16 60 64
#6 Singles	Zack Decker	Eddie Lewis	Coe College	76 75
#1 Doubles	#25Noah Sprinkel  Riley Galbraith	Yosua Adiyasa  Frazier Springfield	Eckerd College	83
#2 Doubles	Ryan Hickman  Michael Janssen	Nikita Valuiskikh  Stephen Felman	Eckerd College	83
#3 Doubles	Sean Stokstad  Zack Decker	Luke Burton  Madison Durley	Coe College	85

Coe 3
Clark 6

#1 Singles	Ryan Hickman	Dan Stein	Coe College	62 63
#2 Singles	Mark Kroll	Antoine Martin	Clark University (Massachusetts)	61 63
#3 Singles	Jeff Damisch	Spencer Pinkney	Clark University (Massachusetts)	46 64 10-5
#4 Singles	Daken Starkenburg	Fernando Pinoargote	Clark University (Massachusetts)	62 76
#5 Singles	Alex Klaas	Zachary Goodstein	Coe College	60 75
#6 Singles	Justin Sauter	Joel Simonson	Clark University (Massachusetts)	62 64
#1 Doubles	Jeff Damisch  Alex Leovic	Dan Stein  Antoine Martin	Clark University (Massachusetts)	84
#2 Doubles	Alex Klaas  Daken Starkenburg	Fernando Pinoargote  Spencer Pinkney	Coe College	86
#3 Doubles	Tyrin Wages  Bill Young	Zachary Goodstein  Josh Burger	Clark University (Massachusetts)	81

Coe 9
Ohio Northern 0

#1 Singles	Riley Galbraith	Josh Saunders	Coe College	62 64
#2 Singles	Ryan Hickman	Do Thai	Coe College	76 75
#3 Singles	Sean Stokstad	John Mostowy	Coe College	62 62
#4 Singles	Alex Bernt	Blake Troller	Coe College	61 61
#5 Singles	Michael Janssen	JT Rapaport	Coe College	60 60
#6 Singles	Zack Decker	Alex Starr	Coe College	60 61
#1 Doubles	#25Noah Sprinkel  Riley Galbraith	John Mostowy  Josh Saunders	Coe College	82
#2 Doubles	Ryan Hickman  Michael Janssen	Do Thai  Blake Troller	Coe College	85
#3 Doubles	Sean Stokstad  Zack Decker	Alex Starr  Sam Prewitt	Coe College	82

WT - Box Scores

Coe 0
Nova Southeastern 9

#1 Singles	Tai Lucero	#37 Alexandra Johansson	Nova Southeastern University	6-2, 6-0
#2 Singles	Amy Sebastian	Sabrina Kierberg	Nova Southeastern University	6-0, 6-2
#3 Singles	Jordan Ferree	Carlee Rizzolo	Nova Southeastern University	6-4, 6-2
#4 Singles	Laura Birky	Charlotte Cote	Nova Southeastern University	6-1, 6-1
#5 Singles	Diannah Watson	Bianca Roberts	Nova Southeastern University	6-1, 6-2
#6 Singles	Elizabeth Hoffmann	Iryna Seryduk	Nova Southeastern University	6-0, 6-1
#1 Doubles	Jordan Ferree  Tai Lucero	Sabrina Kierberg  Alex Kaeser	Nova Southeastern University	8-3
#2 Doubles	Laura Birky  Diannah Watson	Alexandra Johansson  Charlotte Cote	Nova Southeastern University	8-5
#3 Doubles	Sarah Lasecki  Tamara Washington	Juliet Serabian  Linda Kornienko	Nova Southeastern University	8-3

Coe 8
Trine 1

#1 Singles	Amy Sebastian	Erin Kwaske	Coe College	6-1, 6-2
#2 Singles	Diannah Watson	Lauren Schlueter	Coe College	7-6, 6-1
#3 Singles	Tamara Washington	Alexis Mack	Coe College	6-1, 6-3
#4 Singles	Sarah Lasecki	Marissa German	Coe College	6-0, 6-4
#5 Singles	Kaitlin Fosler	Allison Marley	Trine University	6-2, 1-6, 10-7
#6 Singles	Rachel Schaefer	Lexi Skeens	Coe College	6-1, 6-1
#1 Doubles	Laura Birky  Diannah Watson	Lauren Schlueter  Marissa German	Coe College	8-3
#2 Doubles	Elizabeth Hoffmann  Tai Lucero	Alexis Mack  Erin Kwaske	Coe College	8-1
#3 Doubles	Sarah Lasecki  Tamara Washington	Allison Marley  Kaitlin Black	Coe College	8-0

W v Trine

Men 9
Ohio Northern 0

Women  8
Trine  1

Diannah/Laura  8-3
Tai/Hoff  8-1
Sarah/Tam  8-0

Singles:
Amy  6-1, 6-2
Diannah  7-6, 6-1
Tam  6-1, 6-3
Sarah  6-0, 6-4
Kaitlin  2-6, 6-1, 7-10
Rachel  6-1, 6-1

M v ONU

Doubles:
8-2
8-5
8-2

M v Ohio Northern

Doubles underway against ONU:
Noah/Riley 2-1
Ryan/Mike 2-1
Sean/Zack 3-0

Riley
Ryan
Sean
Bernt
Mike
Zack

W v Evangel

Doubles:
1-8
8-4
8-0

76 36 11-9 Evangel (Tai)

61 62 Evangel (Amy)

61 46 10-7 Evangel (Jordan)

60 76 Coe(Laura)

62 63 Coe (Hoff)

36 60 64 Coe (Kaitlin)

Coe wins 5-4 over NAIA Evangel.  Evangel's #1 singles and doubles are ranked fourth in the country. 

A good day to be a Kohawk!

Women v Evangel

Women's match against Evangel underway....

Tai/Jordan
Diannah/Laura
Tam/Sarah

Tai
Amy
Jordan
Laura
Hoff
Kaitlin

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Dinner!

From the pier in front of our hotel before departure:

Mileage

Coaching staff had a total of 21 miles logged via swim, bike, run,
walk before players set foot outside this morning!

Quality practice 12-2. Most of the players swimming now.

Large team dinner this evening with traveling parents, etc....guessing
60+ in our party. Pictures to come.

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Final Scores - Concordia

Coe Women 9

Concordia (MN) 0

#1 Singles	Tai Lucero	Brittany Glatt	Coe College	6-0, 6-0
#2 Singles	Laura Birky	Kaitlyn Davies	Coe College	6-1, 6-3
#3 Singles	Elizabeth Hoffmann	Jade Haseltine	Coe College	6-1, 6-0
#4 Singles	Tamara Washington	Morgan Sawatzke	Coe College	6-3, 6-2
#5 Singles	Sarah Lasecki	Rose Reinert	Coe College	6-4, 6-1
#6 Singles	Rachel Schaefer	Celia Peloquin	Coe College	6-0, 6-0
#1 Doubles	Jordan Ferree  Tai Lucero	Brittany Glatt  Kaitlyn Davies	Coe College	8-0
#2 Doubles	Diannah Watson  Tamara Washington	Morgan Sawatzke  Jade Haseltine	Coe College	8-0
#3 Doubles	Amy Sebastian  Rachel Schaefer	Taylor Peterson  Rose Reinert	Coe College	9-7

Coe Men 8

Concordia (MN) 1

#1 Singles	Riley Galbraith	Zach Zitur	Coe College	61 61
#2 Singles	Alex Bernt	Jesse Schneeberger	Coe College	60 60
#3 Singles	Zack Decker	Sam Smith	Coe College	62 61
#4 Singles	Mark Kroll	Evan Jystad	Coe College	62 61
#5 Singles	Alex Klaas	Zach Biggar	Coe College	63 62
#6 Singles	Justin Sauter	Matthew Jacobson	Coe College	76 63
#1 Doubles	Ryan Hickman  Zack Decker	Zach Biggar  Sam Smith	Coe College	83
#2 Doubles	Jeff Damisch  Alex Leovic	Jesse Schneeberger  Zach Zitur	Concordia College, Moorhead	85
#3 Doubles	Tyrin Wages  Bill Young	Austin Storm  Tyler Halvorsen	Coe College	85

Update - Concordia

WT Doubles 3-0
8-0, 8-0, 9-7

MT Doubles 2-1
8-3, 5-8, 8-5

They are multiplying.....always nice to have another Galbraith with us!

Here are the courts we were scheduled to play on this morning.  I was intrigued by the process; perhaps in my future upon retirement?

Spring Break - Live Scoring

An early Saturday morning match to start the week! Men and women
kickoff against Corcordia-MN in just a few mins....

Tai and Jordan
Diannah and Tam
Amy and Rachel

Tai
Laura
Hoff
Tam
Sarah
Rachel

Ryan and Zack
Jeff and Leo
Bill and Tyrin

Riley
Bernt
Zack
Mark
Klaas
Justin

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