Although they got the tennis action started between Mankato West and Austin on Tuesday at the Paulson Courts, wet weather forced the dual meet to be postponed.
A possible make-up date for the dual meet might be on Thursday when the Austin Packer travel to Albert Lea. The make-up match could possibly be played later that day with the Big Nine Conference Meet scheduled for Saturday.
The Austin boys did have a make-up meet at Decorah, Iowa, on Monday. Austin won the non-conference dual 7-2, but some of the matches were very close.
"Highlights for Austin in singles was Josh Detwiler, who was down 9-5 in a third-set tiebreaker only to fight off four match points and win 11-9 in the tiebreaker," Packers coach Tommy Tauchnitz said of Monday's win.
"I thought the No. 2 doubles team of Matt Zastoupil and Peter Lindahl really did a nice job of finding the opponents weaknesses. Then, in the second and third set super tiebreaker they really exploited them well."
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This dual meet was played under the Iowa format with six singles matches being counted along with some of the guys also playing in the doubles competition.
AUSTIN 7, DECORAH 2
(Monday)
Singles — Bob Astrup (A) def. Alek Besarovic 6-2, 6-4; Josh Detwiler (A) def. Erik Bay 7-5, 3-6, (11-9); Patrick Larson (D) def. Patrick Wagner 6-3, 6-3; Matt Duren (A) def. Kai Broom 6-2, 6-3; Andrew Heickley (A) def. Thomas Locke 6-0, 7-5; Chance Beard (D) def. Bob Sherman 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.
Doubles— Bob Astrup/Jacob Brehmer (A) def. Erik Bay/Kai Broom 6-4, 3-6, (11-9); Peter Lindahl/Matt Zastoupil (A) def. Alek Besarovic/Patrick Larson 2-6, 6-4, (10-5); Joe Urlick/ Ryan Rassel (A) def. Owa Neubauer/Lucas Hunter 6-2, 6-3.
