LSC Roundup 3-9

Ruiz Looking to End Career on High Note - ASU Track

Only general admission seats remain for South Central Regional - MSU MBB

GAME DAY: #5 Midwestern begins quest for third straight regional title Saturday against Rattlers - MSU MBB

Haggerty makes transition look easy in first year -  Andy Newberry, Times Record News
Moving over one chair can't be quite as easy as Nelson Haggerty is making it look.
Ties that bind: WT's Griffin has known Coach Gerlich all her life - Ricky Treon, Amarillo Globe News 

When Devin Griffin decided she no longer wanted to play basketball for the North Carolina State Wolfpack, the next move in her life took little contemplation.
South Central Regional capsules (March 9) - Times Record News

A capsule look at the teams in Saturday's first two games of the NCAA Division II South Central Region tournament in D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

Tennis: CU Tennis Teams Blow by Bearcats - CU Tennis
LSC Tennis: ACU's Hach, Julia Mongin pick up weekly laurels - LSC Office
TENNIS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
MEN’S
Hans Hach, Abilene Christian University, SO, Culiacan, Mexico, Niagara Academy of Tennis
Hach went 2-0 this weekend as a singles player over opponents from #28 Incarnate Word and #15 Texas A&M. Hach, who is in the midst of a five-match winning streak, is 10-2 overall this season and is 8-2 over his last 10 matches. Competing at the No. 1 line, Hach defeated UIW’s Carlos Olvera, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, and then on the road in College Station, knocked off the Aggies’ No. 1, rallying from a set down to beat Colin Hoover, 4-6, 6-3, 12-10. In doubles, Hach lost his first match of the season after falling to Texas A&M’s team of Hoover and John Lewis, 8-5. The loss snapped a season opening 10-match winning streak. Earlier in the weekend Hach and Guilherme Gesser beat UIW’s Olvera and Aiden DeLeon, 8-4. Hach is 10-1 as a doubles player and 4-1 with Gesser as his teammate.

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WOMEN’S
Julia Mongin, Abilene Christian University, JR, Jaurnay, France, Lycee Pilote Innovant International School
In her first weekend back returning from illness, DII’s third-ranked singles player Julia Mongin posted a combined 6-0 record as a singles and doubles player in ACU’s victories over Incarnate Word (9-0), No. 20 Tarleton State (8-1), and No. 10 Rollins (9-0). Mongin began her weekend at the No. 2 line, where she defeated UIW’s Maggae Doney, 6-4, 6-1. She then was moved up to the No. 1 position, where she beat Tarleton’s Alicia Perez, 6-1, 6-4, and Rollins’ 22nd-ranked singles player Lisa Loft, 6-0, 6-1. Mongin’s victories raised her season total to 6-1. In doubles, Mongin and her twin sister, Laura, competed at the No. 2 spot and beat UIW’s Andi Bothe/Casey Bulls, 8-3, and later Rollins’ tandem of Loft/Kayli Ragsdale, 9-8 (4). In between she teamed up with Hannah Kelley for the first time this season and together they beat Tarleton’s Melanie Barnes and Karla Martinez-Hamd (9-7). Mongin is now 7-1 as a doubles player this season, including 3-0 with her sister.