Moberg leads Aggies at LSC's
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (October 10) – Both Cameron Aggie tennis teams traveled to Wichita Falls this weekend to participate in the Lone Star Conference Championship tournament hosted by Midwestern State University (MSU). After a tough weekend of competition, the Aggies managed to come home with two LSC titles and a handful of runner up awards.
“It was a good weekend of tennis,” Coach Helvey said. “I am extremely happy with how our women’s team performed this week. Our men played well against tough competition, but there is still a lot of work ahead of us to reach our potential.”
Play started early on Friday morning and first on the court was freshman Amanda Moberg. Moberg has had an outstanding fall season so far losing only match. This weekend’s results were no different. In her opening match, Moberg faced Julia Shviadok of the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). After completely dominating the entire match, Moberg quickly finished her opponent and won the match by the score of 6-0, 6-1 to place herself in the final.
In her final match, Moberg kept momentum at high and captured CU’s first LSC title of the weekend. Moberg defeated Tarleton State University’s Adriana Jaskova by the score of 7-6, 6-2.
“I am real proud of how well Amanda is playing,” Coach Helvey said. “She has been solid throughout the whole fall season and I am excited to see how much damage she can cause in the spring season.”
Sophomore, Shaneka Knight also played well. Knight started the tournament by winning her opening match against Nilisa Ramirez of East Central University. She won the match by the score of 6-4, 7-5. In her championship match, Knight fought well but could not finish off Monica Graf of MSU. Knight lost the match in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4.
In the women’s doubles draw, the duo of Moberg and Elle Sholles went on to claim yet another title for the Aggies. After quickly winning their opening round, the team needed to bring their A-game to win their final match. Facing the team of Shviadok/Abramovic of UCO, Moberg/Sholles won the match by the score of 6-4, 3-6, 20-18 in an extremely well played match.
“I was real proud of Amanda and Elle,” Coach Helvey said. “They showed some great commitment and that feeds on the rest of the team. It was great to see.”
On the men’s side, three out of the six Aggie men participating placed themselves in the finals. Carlos Viscarra, Diego Troiano and Jeff Sasser all started the tournament and won their matches in decisive fashion, but they all failed to claim a title for the Aggies and all faced MSU opponents in the final.
Viscarra lost to Daniel McMullan in straight sets. Jeff Sasser played well but could not convert at key points and lost to Octavian Dinuta, 6-3, 6-2. Senior Diego Troiano also played well but could not keep momentum from his earlier win and lost to Luke Joyce in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
“Like I said, we have some work to do on our men’s team,” Coach Helvey said. “I feel that we have the best talent in the LSC, we just have to be able to get past that and win important matches for us. I am still happy with the way the guys represented us, but in the end the win is what matters.”
The LSC tournament was the close out event for the Aggie tennis teams this fall. Both teams will now head into off-season training to get ready for the spring season which starts in February of next year.
