BELTON, Texas – The Howard Payne Universityr men's tennis team competed in the Crusader Invitational September 12th – 14th in Belton.  The Howard Payne men return to action September 26th – 29th at the Southwest ITA Tournament in Abilene.

Nicolas Gates/Michael Woodard (Flight C)
L 6-8 Griffin/Garcia (CTX)
L 6-8 Randall/Wicks (TLU)
W defeating Celaya/Shelton (UMHB)

Riley Harker/Parker Hoel (Flight D)
W 8-7 (5) Elliott/Yi (UDallas)
W 8-4 Leslie/E. Salinas (TLU)
L 8-5 Lomelli/Frosch (MCM)

Roberto Aguero/River Prado (Flight E)
W 8-7 (4) Ehrlich/Wolfe (UDallas)
L 8-5 Maldonado/Harry (LETU)
W defeating Davis/Rectenwald (CTX)

Abel Silvas/Jadyn Simental (Flight F)
L Alfaro/Delira (UDallas)

Nicolas Gates (Flight D)
L 6-0, 6-2 Ryan Hastings (Southwestern)
L 2-6, 7-5, 10-6 Barret Scott (UMHB)
W 6-4, 7-5 John Ellwanger (UDallas)

Michael Woodard (Flight G)
L 6-1, 6-1 Diago Maldonado (LETU)
L 7-6(6), 7-5 Khoen Gregory (MCM)
L 6-0, 6-2 Riley Harker (HPU)

Riley Harker (Flight G)
L 6-1, 6-1 Jack Greenwald (MCM)
L 6-4, 6-4 Jackson Leslie (TLU)
W 6-0, 6-2 Mike Woodard (HPU)

Parker Hoel (Flight I)
W 7-6(7), 6-3 Grayson Cavel (LETU)
L 6-4, 6-4 Ethan Garcia (CTX)
L 3-6, 7-6(4), 10-7 James Elliott (UDallas)

Roberto Aguero (Flight I)
L 6-1, 6-3 Timothy Black (LETU)
L 6-3, 6-1 Graham Beevers (CTX)
W 6-0, 7-5 Benjamin Paul (UDallas)

River Prado (Flight J)
W 6-1, 4-6, 10-7 Brandon Nieto (TLU)
L 6-4, 6-3 Jorge Estrada (MCM)
W 6-0, 6-3 Kale Crenshaw (LETU)

Abel Silvas (Flight K)
L 7-6(4), 6-2 Devon Clark (TLU)
W 6-1, 6-2 Kaden Collier (MCM)
L 6-7(5), 6-1, 10-5 Tinh Nguyen (StThomas)