Abram Choate, SID

SEGUIN, Texas - The Howard Payne tennis team played solid and downed Texas Lutheran 7-2 in American Southwest Conference action Saturday afternoon.

"This was a big win for the men and puts us in the hunt to get into the Conference tournament," said head coach Sally Brown. "Our men came out with great intensity in the doubles and continued with that all the way through the singles. We have had some injuries and have had some players that needed to step up and fill in and they have done just that."

Howard Payne 7, Texas Lutheran 2
Mar 28, 2009 at Seguin, Texas

Singles competition
1. Dante Cage (TLU-MEN) def. Chris Sutton (HPU) 2-6, 6-2, 6-1
2. Ross Sidman (HPU) def. Cody Fuller (TLU-MEN) 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (2-7), 10-4
3. Jonathan Hartwell (TLU-MEN) def. Jeff Toyne (HPU) 3-6, 6-2, 4-3, retired
4. Raymond Borjas (HPU) def. Nick Schenk (TLU-MEN) 6-0, 6-2
5. Joshua Guajardo (HPU) def. Jason Nave (TLU-MEN) 6-3, 6-0
6. Jordan Gilbreath (HPU) def. Michael Packard (TLU-MEN) 6-2, 6-3

Doubles competition
1. Chris Sutton/Jordan Gilbreath (HPU) def. Dante Cage/Jason Nave (TLU-MEN) 8-1
2. Ross Sidman/Raymond Borjas (HPU) def. Cody Fuller/Jonathan Hartwell (TLU-MEN) 8-2
3. Nate Alger/Joshua Guajardo (HPU) def. Nick Schenk/Michael Packard (TLU-MEN) 8-4 

The Jackets will play at home twice next week, on Tuesday versus Schreiner Univeristy and on Saturday versus Mary Hardin-Baylor.