GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- The Colorado Mesa men's and women's tennis teams head to The Big Raisin for the annual ITA West Regional Championships.  

The event will take place across three different sites in Fresno: Haak Tennis Complex, Spalding G. Wathen Tennis Center and the Fig Garden Sim and Racket Club. Draws will be posted on the ITA website.  

The tournament will open on Thursday with doubles at 8 a.m. with singles taking place after.  

Last Time Out  
The women's team traveled to Colorado Springs to play two dual matches against Fort Hays State and Colorado College. They beat both Tiger teams as they conquered Fort Hays State 5-2 and held on to beat Colorado College 4-3. Devyn Rodriguez and Valentina Gonzalez were undefeated in singles while the duos of Catalina Ballon/Eva Muraske and Luciana Del Carlo/Sophie Hartman both went undefeated as well.  

On the other side, the men played in the Washburn Invite. Manu Ferreira and Gavin Hutter both won their respective flights in singles while Andrew Lock and Luke Burriesci went 3-0 in doubles.   

Format  
The event will occur across four days with the first day of play on Thursday and going all the way through Sunday. Players who remain alive in the main draw will play a max of three matches each day leading up to the finals.  

Singles will be two out of three sets with a ten-point tiebreak in lieu of the third. However, the scoring will turn into two of three full sets once the players get to the round of 16 and will remain in future rounds.  

Doubles will be an eight-game pro set with a tiebreaker at 7-7. The championship match will be two out of three sets with a ten-point break for the third set.  

Match Schedule 
Thursday: Rd32 Doubles, Rd16 Doubles, Rd64 Singles 

Consolation: Rd32 Singles 

Friday: Quarterfinal Doubles, Rd32 Singles, Rd16 Singles 

Consolation: Some Women's Rd32(C), M&W Rd16, M&W Quarterfinals 

Saturday: Semifinal Doubles, Quarterfinal Singles, Semifinal Singles 

Consolation: Semifinals, Finals 

Sunday: Main Draw Doubles Finals, Main Draw Singles Finals 

CMU's History at the Event  
CMU has been playing the ITA Small College Regionals since the 2008/2009 season when they started out in the Central Region. They moved to the South Region in 2013 but only competed in their regionals twice before moving to the West Region in 2019.  

Both teams have had success in these regional events with two doubles and one singles champion throughout their history.  

The first champions were the duo of Jordan Chomko and Nick Provenza won the Central region doubles title in 2008. The women had their first champions a year later when Kate Lowder and Victoria Sargent captured the Central Region doubles title. 

The last champion was Jordan Lynden when he claimed the South-Central region men's singles title in 2013.  

Last season, Rodriguez made a run all the way to the semifinals in women's singles while William Leschig and Henry Scheck made it to the quarterfinals in men's doubles.  

What's At Stake 
The winners and runners-up of each draw will qualify for the inaugural ITA Division II Singles & Doubles Championships. The event will occur Nov. 4-8 at the Tuscaloosa Tennis Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Criteria for the remaining at-large bids will be determined by ITA Operating Committees. 

Lineups   

Women 

Singles:  

Catalina Ballon 

Valentina Gonzalez  

Sophie Hartman 

Devyn Rodriguez  

Ruby Robbins 

Eva Muraske 

 

Doubles:  

Robbins/Taylor Nokes 

Rodriguez/Gonzalez 

Ballon/Muraske 

Hartman/Luciana Del Carlo 

 

Men 

Singles:  

Josema Fas 

Gavin Hutter  

Luke Burriesci 

Daniel Blanch 

Diego Foncillas  

Manu Ferreira 

 

Doubles:  

Foncillas/Blanch  

Fas/Ferreira 

Burriesci/Andrew Lock

Scouting the Competition 
The Mavericks are joined by ten other schools, with eight of them being from California. There are also two schools hailing from Hawaii, Hawaii-Hilo and Hawaii Pacific. CMU is the only school from Colorado playing at this event. Three of the teams; Concordia-Irvine, Dominican and Stanislaus State, only have a women's team competing in the event. 

Seven of these are teams are competing in the PacWest, so the Mavs will get a taste of their conference foes before the spring season. 

Seeding
There 16 seeds in each singles draw and eight in doubles. Seeding is selected based off the most recent national and regional rankings plus the best World Tennis Number (WTN). 

Men's Singles 
1: Stanislas Noel (Point Loma)
2: Max Solano Fas (Hawaii Hilo)
3: David Fisinger (Point Loma)  
4: Driss Sedrati (Westmont)
5: Pol Masafret (Biola) 
6: Robin McAlpine (Menlo) 
7: Finn Kirschner (Point Loma) 
8: Ethan Terry (Hawaii Pacific)
9: Seth Newman (Hawaii Pacific) 
10: Eemil Pasanen (Menlo) 
11: Zalan Sandor Savay (Menlo) 
12: Marcos Alogo-Piqueras (Point Loma) 
13: Angel Fonseca Garcia (Hawaii Hilo)
14: Paul Sobich (Point Loma) 
15: Guilherme Gracioli (Biola) 
16: Jordi Gonzalez (Fresno Pacific) 

Women's Singles 
1: Evi Roobal (Hawaii Pacific) 
2: Yume Ueoka (Fresno Pacific)
3: Fabiana Lucia Gonzalez Gimenez (Fresno Pacific)
4: Zofia Dziewiecka (Menlo)
5: Ombeline Robilliart (Menlo) 
6: Emely Valencia (Point Loma) 
7: Yeo Kyung Kim (Biola) 
8: Perla Conde Vendrell (Point Loma) 
9: Dafne Andres Paton (Biola) 
10: Zoe Moley (Point Loma) 
11: Halle Faherty (Fresno Pacific) 
12: Magdalena Nunez Pureco (Fresno Pacific) 
13: Thea Donarski (Westmont) 
14: Rosa Viller Moller (Hawaii Pacific) 
15: Sofia Acuna (Dominican) 
16: Isabella Stuurman (Menlo) 

Men's Doubles 
1: Noel/Kirshner (Point Loma)
2: Kaufmann/Salinas Beltran (Fresno Pacific) 
3: Fisinger/Alogo-Piqueras (Point Loma) 
4: McAlpine/Espinosa Navarro (Menlo) 
5: Savay/Pasanen (Menlo) 
6: Terry/Newman (Hawaii Pacific) 
7: Jung/Pery (Hawaii Pacific) 
8: Masafret/Gracioli (Biola) 

Women's Doubles 
1: Gonzalez Gimenez/Ueoka (Fresno Pacific) 
2: Pallencaoe/Valencia (Point Loma) 
3: Kim/Romano (Biola) 
4: Faherty/McLean (Fresno Pacific) 
5: Roobal/Sperry (Hawaii Pacific) 
6: Conde Vendrell/Fernadez (Point Loma) 
7: Dziewiecka/Stuurman (Menlo) 
8: Zirkle/Moley (Point Loma)

Rejoining the PacWest  
After a year of independence, both teams will rejoin the PacWest for the upcoming spring season. The conference will now feature eight teams on the men's side and 13 teams on the women's side with the addition of the Mavs. They will join Fresno Pacific, Menlo, CSU Los Angeles and Stanislaus State as affiliate members. The team will still be a part of the ITA West Region and will play against teams in the region during the spring season.  
 
Men's Teams 
Biola 
Colorado Mesa 
Fresno Pacific 
Hawai`i Hilo 
Hawai`i Pacific 
Menlo 
Point Loma 
Westmont 
 
 
Women's Teams 
Biola 
CSU Los Angeles 
Chaminade 
Colorado Mesa 
Concordia 
Dominican 
Fresno Pacific 
Hawai`i Hilo 
Hawai`i Pacific 
Menlo 
Point Loma 
Stanislaus State 
Westmont