Men's Tennis Begins 2025 With Victory

SAN ANTONIO — The St. Mary's University Men's Tennis team won its first match of the 2025 dual season in shutout fashion, winning 7-0 against Schreiner on Saturday morning.
 
The Rattlers started strong, dropping only two games in the three doubles sets for the first point of the season. Freshmen Lincoln Baldonado (Glendale, Ariz.) and Justin Koth (Boerne, Texas) broke serve three times for the 6-0 victory at line three.
 
The number one team of freshman Lucas Castillo Sanchez (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and sophomore Leonardo Fabbri (Faenza, Italy) and the two squad of junior Bernhard Hauer (Vienna, Austria) and senior Alvaro Soler (Alicante, Spain) each won by scores of 6-1.
 
In singles play, Castillo Sanchez dropped one game in each set for his 6-1, 6-1 victory at number three. Soler also only gave up two games, doing so in the second set for his 6-0, 6-2 win at line two. Baldonado clinched the victory for the Rattlers with his 6-3, 6-0 decision on court four.
 
On court one, Fabbri won 6-1, 6-2, while Koth posted a 6-0, 6-1 win at line six and sophomore Louis Hein (Hamburg, Germany) concluded the morning with his 6-2, 6-2 victory at the sixth spot.
 
The Rattlers remain at home, hosting Jacksonville College at 1 p.m. on Monday.
 
Results
St. Mary's 7, Schreiner 0
Doubles

1. Lucas Castillo Sanchez/Leonardo Fabbri (StMU) def. Ryan Morales/Cole Reed, 6-1
2. Bernhard Hauer/Alvaro Soler (StMU) def. Ern Gonzalez-Molina/Andrew Reyes, 6-1

3. Lincoln Baldonado/Jutin Koth (StMU) def. Matthew Caldwell/Darren Nava, 6-0

Singles

1. Leonardo Fabbri (StMU) def. Darren Nava, 6-1, 6-2 (4)
2. Alvaro Soler (StMU) def. Ryan Morales, 6-0, 6-2 (2)
3. Lucas Castillo Sanchez (StMU) vs Cole Reed, 6-1, 6-1 (1)
4. Lincoln Baldonado (StMU) vs Ern Gonzalez-Molina, 6-3, 6-0 (3, clinch)
5. Louis Hein (StMU) def. Andrew Reyes, 6-2, 6-2 (6)

6. Justin Koth (StMU) def Matthew Caldwell, 6-0, 6-1 (5)