THIS WEEK IN RATTLERS TENNIS
Feb. 6 • McMurry • 2 p.m. • Rohrbach Tennis Stadium
Feb. 7 • Howard Payne • 12 p.m. • at Schreiner • 4 p.m. • Cree Tennis Center
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• The St. Mary's Men's Tennis team begins the spring portion of its schedule with three matches in two days. The Rattlers open by hosting McMurry on Friday at 2 p.m. before heading up the road to Kerrville to face both Howard Payne and Schreiner on Saturday.
•   The Rattlers added a trio of student-athletes to the roster between semesters, welcoming Ollie Eriksson from Austin, Florian Smalto from Paris, France, and Victor Velter from Perpignan, France. Smalto is a sophomore transfer from Northwestern Ohio while the other two are freshmen.
•   At the conclusion of the first semester, St. Mary's had nine student-athletes named to the Lone Star Commissioner's Honor Roll, with Lincoln Baldonado, Bernhard Hauer, and Louis Hein all earning a perfect 4.00 GPA. Diego Alvarez, Aaron Ben Anton, Lucas Castillo Sanchez, Leonardo Fabbri, Nikita Gavrilonoks, and Evin Walsh all sported at least a 3.30 GPA for the fall semester.
•   Freshman Diego Alvarez and sophomore Lucas Castillo Sanchez were both named Athletes to Watch in the Lone Star Conference.
•   Junior Leonardo Fabbri was named to the CSC Academic All-District team a season ago, while senior Bernhard Hauer was voted to the Lone Star Conference All-Academic team.
•   The spring season features seven home matches for the Rattlers, including three during February.
•   Both sophomore Lucas Castillo Sanchez and junior Leonardo Fabbri enter the spring with eight victories, as Castillo Sanchez is 8-3 and Fabbri is 8-4.
•   The doubles tandem of junior Louis Hein and freshman Diego Alvarez won the consolation bracket at the ITA South Central Regional. Hein and Alvarez dropped their opening round in the main draw, but won four straight in the consolation draw, including an 8-4 victory in the finals over UT Tyler.
•   Senior Aaron Ben Anton advanced to the semifinals in the consolation singles draw at the ITA Regionals before dropping a third-set tiebreaker to Tomas Leguizamon Chaves from host Midwestern State, 3-6, 6-4, [4-10].
