Photo Courtesy of Idaho State Athletics
Trevor Delaney
Sports Editor
Still licking their wounds from last weekend’s two losses against Montana State, the Idaho State University Men’s Tennis team suffered another defeat on Sunday at the hands of the Brigham Young University Cougars, with a final score of 0-7. This is only the seventh time that the Bengals have ever played the Cougars in Tennis, with BYU maintaining their undefeated winning streak. Anyone who follows college tennis knows that BYU knows tennis, and their home turf of Provo is where they tend to play best. With these towering odds stacked against them, the Bengals are only one of many teams to fall to BYU despite an admirable effort on their part.
Idaho State took a short-lived victory in the first doubles match of the afternoon, but Brigham Young’s team won the next two doubles matches. This gave BYU the doubles point, but the Bengals were still in the game to try to make up for it in the singles matches. The optimism of the ISU team slipped away when all six singles went to BYU, culminating in the final 0-7 score. As the Bengals well know, when taking on the Cougars sometimes you may end up getting shredded.
With a season total of six losses, the team has more than a month to get geared up for their first match of the Big Sky Conference play against Northern Arizona University. Idaho State can hope to make a comeback when they travel to Boise next weekend. There they will be playing Boise State University on Friday, Feb. 19 at 5 p.m., followed by George Fox University at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
