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Tennis: Game notes

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MSU Denver will open the 2014-15 season on Friday vs. Texas-Permian Basin and Nebraska-Kearney in Pueblo, Colo.

Notes:
•    Josh Graetz (Albury, Australia/The Scots School) won 12 consecutive singles matches at No. 1 (March 8 to April 11), breaking the school record for consecutive wins at No. 1 singles.
•    Previously the school record was nine held by Peter Lantz (2000) and Sascha Ruckelshausen (2009). 
•    Graetz has also broken the school record for most wins in a single season with 23 (previous record was 22 by Lucio Cangiano in 2012).
•    The women's team is down two of its top three singles players due to injuries.

GRAETZ NAMED RMAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK:
•    Josh Graetz (Albury, Australia/The Scots School) was named RMAC player of the week on the men's side on March 19.
•    Graetz earned a big win at No. 1 singles against Bethany College on March 13, winning 6-4, 6-0 over Laurentsi Arakhamiya, who is ranked No. 27 in NAIA
•    On March 14, Graetz earned another singles win again Koo Miyake from Wartburg College, winning the first and second set 6-0.
•    He also competed in doubles that day with Adrien Delvaux (Flower Mound, Texas/Flower Mound H.S.), winning 8-1.
•    Graetz earned the award again on April 2.
•    He went 4-0 at No. 1 singles and 3-1 at No. 1 doubles with teammate Adrien Delvaux (Flower Mound, Texas/Flower Mound H.S.).
•    Graetz won all four of his singles matches in straight sets, including a win against No. 50 Sonoma State on Sunday against West Region No. 17 Matt Roberts.

LEADING THE WAY IN THE CLASSROOM:
•    The women's team had a 3.55 grade point average during the fall semester, best of any MSU Denver athletics team, and a 3.33 GPA during the spring.
•    The men's team had a 3.29 GPA during the fall semester and a 3.10 GPA during the spring.
•    Six athletes made the Athletic Director's Honor Roll during the fall semester (3.5 GPA or higher) and six more made it during the spring.
•    Trevor Jones (Vancouver, Wash./Mountain View H.S.) (civil engineering) and Josh Graetz (Albury, Australia/The Scots School) (human performance & sport) are the two returners who made it both semesters.
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