SURPRISE, Ariz.— Colorado Mesa University's Steven Howe and Jandre van Wyk secured the Maverick men's tennis single-season record for doubles winning percentage as they claimed a 6-3 No. 2 doubles win to give the Mavs their lone point of a Saturday afternoon dual and the Pacific West Conference Championships against in-state rival MSU Denver.
 
The Mavs' No. 1 doubles duo of Christian Albrechtsen and Tyler Landen had also posted a 6-3 win minutes earlier as the Mavericks seized the doubles point with Howe and van Wyk's record-securing win over the Roadrunners' Jack McDermott and David Kijak.  However, the Roadrunners roared back with four straight-set singles wins to claim the 4-1 team victory, played to clinch, in the seventh-place match of the conference tournament, which was contested here at the Surprise Tennis Center.
 
The eighth-seeded Mavs ended the season with a 9-10 record after dropping 4-0 decisions to top-seed and Azusa Pacific on Thursday and to fifth-seeded Point Loma on Friday.  MSU Denver, seeded sixth, defeated the Mavericks for the third time this month and finished its season with an 8-11 overall mark.
 
Both teams were new additions to the brutally tough PacWest, which includes four of the top 14 teams in the country, this season as affiliate members in men's and women's tennis. 
 
Howe and van Wyk, who won ten of their final 11 doubles matches of the year, finished the season with a 15-4 doubles record, good for a .789 winning percentage.  That mark bettered the former CMU record of .758, set a dozen years earlier by Jordan Chomko and Nick Provenza.  Chomko and Provenza went 25-8 in the 2008-09 campaign and won the ITA regional title during the fall of that season, the only Maverick doubles duo to ever do so.
 
Howe and van Wyke were Third Team All-Pac West honorees.  Howe also earned the same honor in singles and was the only Maverick to win a singles set on Saturday.  He took the second set over McDermott, 6-2 after the Roadrunner had won the first 6-3.  The third set of their match and the No. 4 singles match between Kijak and CMU's Moises Cure, which Kijak was leading 7-5, 3-2, were both left unfinished after the Roadrunners controlled No. 3, 5, 1 and 6 singles to claim the dual.
 
Earlier, Albrechtsen and Landen were doubles victors over Daniel Llorente and Mateo Besada as the Mavericks won the doubles point with the 6-3 victories to book-end MSU Denver's No. 3 doubles win over Cure and Thiago Nejm, who played his final match as a Maverick.
 
Nejm finished his season with a team-best 10-7 singles record.  Van Wyk also had ten singles wins as part of his 10-8 singles mark and led the team in overall wins with 25.  Howe also went 8-9 in singles while Cure had a winning 9-6 singles record as well.
 
Albrechtsen and Landen went 8-8 to help pace the Mavericks in doubles throughout the season, playing in the top flight throughout.