Thursday morning the Seward County Saints 2010 NJCAA
National Tournament came to a close after a very successful week in
Plano, Texas. Seward will finish 10th at this year’s National
Tournament after accumulating 20 total points on the week after a pair
of consolation bracket wins this morning. On Wednesday the Saints had
limited action on the court but did have some success in consolation
bracket matches. Nathan Nelmes beat Corey Arnold of Kaskaskia College
easily 6-1, 6-0 in the consolation semis and early this morning
dispatched of Daniel Little of Gadsden State 6-2, 6-2 in the final to
bring home the consolation bracket championship. In #4 singles,
Christian Romanzini worked his way into the round of 8 Wednesday morning
but lost 6-2, 6-2 to Matt Davis of Collin to finish in a 5th place tie
as his tournament came to an end. After dropping his first match of the
tournament Eduardo Munoz made a stand to play as long as he could in the
consolation bracket and he did just that winning Wednesday 6-1, 6-1 over
Kaleb Bone of Kaskaskia in the semifinals and then defeating Jeremy
Falls of Itawamba CC in straight sets Thursday morning to capture the
championship. The Saints last doubles team standing on Wednesday was
Fernando Soni and Carlos Souza who advanced Tuesday to the quarterfinals
but were dropped there by the 2nd ranked team of Jonas Imhof and
Christian Valencia who ended the Brazilian duo’s season with a hard
fought 6-3, 6-4 victory to knock them out in 5th place. With the wins
this morning the Saints finish the tournament with 20 points and have
locked themselves into the #10 spot regardless of the outcome of the
rest of the tournament.
