Posted: Apr 26, 2023
THE TEAMS
Sixth-seeded Saint Mary's (5-13, 4-5 WCC) vs third-seeded Santa Clara (15-9, 6-3 WCC)
MATCH INFO
vs. Saint Mary's
When: Thursday, April 27 at 1 p.m. PT
Where: Aztec Tennis Complex, San Diego State University
Live Stats: Live Scoring
Video: Live Stream
NOTES
- Santa Clara is seeded third in the West Coast Conference Tennis Tournament and will play sixth-seed Saint Mary's on Thursday at 1 p.m. PT.
- Refer to the WCC Tenns Tournament Central page for information throughout the tournament.
- The winner of the Broncos and the Gaels match will play second-seed Pepperdine on Friday at 1:30 p.m. PT.
- During the regular season, Saint Mary's topped Santa Clara 4-3 in Moraga coming back from a 3-1 deficit.
- SCU closed out the regular season at home last weekend with a split against Pepperdine and LMU to secure the third seed.
- Three Broncos were named All-WCC on Wednesday. Christian Lerby was named second team singles, Arthur Neuhaus was named honorable mention singles, and Neuhaus along with Guillaume Dalmasso were named second team doubles.
- Prior to Sunday's match against LMU, five Broncos seniors - Nick Cmager, Santiago Hinojosa, Neuhaus, Jack Pulliam and Mann Shah - were ecognized in a pre-match ceremony.
- Santa Clara enters the WCC Tournament having won four of their last five matches overall.
- SCU is 6-6 away from home including 1-0 in neutral site matches. Saint Mary's is 1-10 in away contests.
- Lerby was ranked No. 117 in the ITA Division I Men's National Singles Rankings two weeks ago.
- Lerby tops the team with 14 singles wins in dual matches against just two losses.
- Dalmasso, Neuhaus and Shah leads the team in doubles wins in dual matches with 13.
- Santa Clara was picked to finish fourth in the West Coast Conference in the WCC preseason poll.
- The eight-player squad is comprised entirely of upperclassmen. Graduate Students (4): Santiago Hinojosa, Christian Lerby, Arthur Neuhaus and Jack Pulliam; Seniors (3): Nick Cmager, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah; Junior (1): Guillaume Dalmasso.
- In the fall, Hinojosa led the team with eight singles wins while Pulliam had the most doubles wins with seven.
- The Broncos hired a new assistant coach, Edson Ortiz last May.
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In 2021-22:
- Santa Clara posted a 10-12 season in 2021-22 including 5-4 in the West Coast Conference to qualify for the league tournament for the fourth time in five years (missing only during 2019-20 COVID year).
- The Broncos finished ranked No. 7 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional team rankings with Guillaume Dalmasso and Arthur Neuhaus ranked top-20 in singles.
- Three Broncos garnered All-WCC honors: Arthur Neuhaus, Mann Shah and Guillaume Dalmasso.
- The team was recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association as an All-Academic team for the fourth-straight year and four Broncos were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
- Dalmasso had a team best 24-11 overall singles record and a 12-4 dual match record.
- Mann Shah led the team with 12 overall doubles victories and 10 dual match wins.
- Santa Clara returns six players (Nick Cmager, Guillaume Dalmasso, Santiago Hinojosa, Arthur Neuhaus, Matthew Rodriguez and Mann Shah) from last season.
- Head coach Niall Angus is in his seventh year as the head coach. Entering the 2021-22 season, Angus owned a 68-53 career record and coached 11 all-conference singles, 11 all-conference doubles and 16 conference all-academic honorees.
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