Bees head to Hilton Head for Spring Break
St. Ambrose will head to Hilton Head, S.C., for its annual Spring Break trip. The Bee men will play four duals and the women will compete three times.
Mar. 18
SAU Men 6, Schreiner 1
St. Ambrose won five of six singles matches and swept doubles play to wrap up Spring Break with a 6-1 win over Schreiner. All five singles wins were fairly one-sided. Sebastian Arevalo led the way with a 6-1, 6-4 win at No. 1. Gabriel Guimaray (6-1, 6-1), Miguel Sampaio (6-2, 6-2), Samy Khiyara (6-1, 6-2) and Shingai Manyonga (6-2, 6-3) also won in straight sets. The lone loss was Austin Hutton's 3-6, 6-1, 12-0 setback at No. 6. Doubles action was competitive. Arevalo and Guimaray eked out a 7-6 (7-2) win at No. 1 doubles. Sampaio and Khiyara won 6-4 at No. 2 and Manyonga and Emilio Palencia won 6-3 at No. 3. St. Ambrose is now 9-3 overall this year.
Schreiner 6, SAU Women 1
In a dual closer than the final score indicates, St. Ambrose ended its trip with a 6-1 loss to Schreiner. Catherine Meystrik earned the Bees' lone singles win, that a 6-1, 6-3 decision at No. 3. But several other matches went down to the wire, including a pair extended to third-set super-tiebreakers. Hayden Evans fell 3-6, 6-2, 11-9 at No. 2 and Yeva Shershan lost 6-7, 6-1, 10-8 at No. 4. No. 1 player Chiara Aguirre Cortez lost 6-4, 6-3. Riley Heiar (6-1, 6-0 at No. 5) and Kate Jones (6-3, 6-3) also lost in straight sets. Aguirre Cortez and Evans teamed for a 6-3 win at No. 1 doubles. Meystrik and Shershan lost 6-4 at No. 2 and Heiar and Jones lost 7-5 at No. 3. SAU is now 6-6 this year.
Mar. 17
SAU Men 7, St. Mary's (Md.) 0
St. Ambrose rolled to a 7-0 win over St. Mary's (Md.), sweeping all nine matches. All six singles matches were decided in straight sets with Samy Khiyara (No. 4) and Austin Hutton (No. 6) each winning 6-0, 6-0. Shingai Manyonga dropped just two games in his 6-2, 6-0 victory at No. 5. The other three singles matches were more competitive. Sebastian Arevalo won 6-3, 7-5 at No. 1. Gabriel Guimaray came out with a 6-3, 6-2 win at No. 2. At No. 3, Miguel Sampaio earned a 6-4, 6-2 win. Arevalo and Guimaray won 6-2 at No. 1 doubles. The No. 2 team of Sampaio and Khiyara and the No. 3 team of Manyonga and Emilio Palencia each won by 6-0 scores.
Saint Mary (Neb.) 6, SAU Women 1
Hayden Evans earned the only victory in a 6-1 loss to the College of Saint Mary (Neb.). Evans needed a third-set super-tiebreaker in her 6-2, 1-6, 11-9 win at No. 2 singles. Yeva Shershan was also extended to a super-breaker. She fell 6-2, 6-7, 10-7 at No. 4 singles. The remaining Bees lost in straight sets. Chiara Aguirre Cortez dropped a 6-0, 6-2 decision at No. 1; Catherine Meystrik fell 6-4, 6-3 at No. 3; Riley Heiar lost 6-3, 6-0 at No. 5; and Julianna Di Maria fell 6-4, 6-0 at No. 6. SAU also dropped all three doubles matches. Aguirre Cortez and Evans lost a tight 6-4 match at No. 1. Meystrik and Shershan lost 6-2 at No. 2 doubles. Heiar and Di Maria fell by the same 6-2 score at No. 3.
Mar. 15
Wooster 4, SAU Men 3
The doubles point proved to be the difference as St. Ambrose and the College of Wooster split the six singles matches. Wooster won the top three singles matches as SAU won the bottom three. Samy Khiyara won 6-3, 6-2 at No. 4; Shingai Manyonga won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 5; and Austin Hutton won 6-3, 6-4 at No. 6. Miguel Sampaio dropped his match at No. 3 singles in a third-set super-tiebreaker 6-2, 3-6, 10-6. Sebastian Arevalo (No. 1) and Gabriel Guimaray (No. 2) lost in straight sets with Guimaray falling 6-4, 7-6 (7-5). Sampaio and Khiyara teamed for a 6-2 win at No. 2 doubles. The Bees came up just short in the other two doubles matches. Arevalo and Guimaray lost 6-4 at No. 1, and Hutton and Emilio Palencia lost in a tiebreaker 7-6 (7-3) at No. 3.
Mar. 14
Asbury 7, SAU Men 0
The Bees won just one match, that a 7-5 decision at No. 1 doubles by Sebastian Arevalo and Gabriel Guimaray. SAU nearly won the doubles point but Miguel Sampaio and Samy Khiyara fell 7-6 (7-3) at No. 2. Shingai Manyonga and Austin Hutton lost 6-2 at No. 3 doubles. Guimaray's 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) setback at No. 2 was the closest singles match. Arevalo, Khiyara, Sampaio, Manyonga and Hutton each lost in straight sets.
Asbury 5, SAU Women 2
Yeva Shershan and Riley Heiar each battled through a tight first set before winning in straight sets in singles in SAU's loss to Asbury. Shershan earned a 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 win at No. 5 and Heiar came out with a 7-5, 6-2 victory at No. 6. Chiara Aguirre Cortez lost 6-2, 6-0 at No. 1 singles. The other three Bees - Hayden Evans, Julia Turek and Catherine Meystrik - each lost by an identical 6-4, 6-2 score. Shershan and Heiar also combined for a 6-3 win at No. 3 doubles. But the other two SAU teams lost. Aguirre Cortez and Evans fell 6-3 at No. 1, and the No. 2 team of Turek and Meystrik lost 7-6 (8-6).