Men's Tennis

Senior Sandy Farquharson

MAV NETTERS HEAD TO COLLEGE STATION FOR NCAA FIRST ROUND

Texas-Arlington will face Texas A&M in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament

May 4, 2006

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Texas-Arlington men's tennis team received the Southland Conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament for their efforts in winning the conference tournament. Their reward is a trip to College Station, Texas, to take on the 16th-seeded Texas A&M Aggies.

Texas-Arlington (13-6) finished the regular season in a three-way tie for first place in the Southland Conference. They entered the conference tournament as the three seed. They knocked off Lamar, 4-0, in the first round, and then took out two-seeded Southeastern Louisiana, 4-1, in the semifinals. After Texas A&M-Corpus Christi fell to Texas-San Antonio in the other semifinal, the Mavericks would then take on their rivals, the Roadrunners in the championship match. Texas-Arlington took control of the match from the beginning and never looked back, defeating Texas-San Antonio, 4-2, and winning their seventh conference championship.

Texas A&M (15-10) who received an at-large bid into the tournament is ranked 19th in the nation. They finished tied for fourth in the Big 12 and was knocked out in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament. They also defeated the number two (Illinois) and four (Baylor) teams in the country this season. The Aggies also have one of the best singles players in the nation in Jerry Makowski. He is ranked 12th in the nation.

The first round matchup will begin Friday, May 12, at 5 p.m. The match will take place at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station, Texas. Brown and Notre Dame will face off in the other first-round match. Below are possible matchups for the Texas-Arlington/Texas A&M match:

Singles 1 - #12 Jerry Makowski (A&M) vs. #97 Sandy Farquharson (UTA) 2 - Conor Pollock (A&M) vs. Diego Mattar (UTA) 3 - Bryan Wooten (A&M) vs. Daniel Omana (UTA) 4 - John Nallon (A&M) vs. Alberto Agis (UTA) 5 - Matt Bain (A&M) vs. Ian Vazquez (UTA) 6 - Brett Joleson (A&M) vs. Niels Buksik (UTA)

Doubles 1 - Joleson/Makowski (A&M) vs. Farquharson/Javier Herrera (UTA) 2 - Wooten/Marcus Lunt (A&M) vs. Mattar/Buksik (UTA) 3 - Bain/Pollock (A&M) vs. Agis/Omana (UTA)