Box Score TYLER, Texas -- UT Tyler secured the outright Lone Star Conference men's tennis title in its first season of LSC competition, finishing off a perfect 7-0 conference record with a 5-2 win over Midwestern State on Saturday.
 
After starting the season with a 3-7 record, the Patriots reeled off 7 consecutive wins, all against LSC foes, to close out the program's first LSC season after the 2020 campaign was halted due to COVID-19 prior to the start of the conference schedule.
 
With Saturday's victory, UT Tyler won all 7 of its LSC matches by a margin of at least 5-2, and the Patriots won their conference matches by a combined 40-9 margin.
 
UT Tyler claimed the doubles point by virtue of a tiebreaker at No. 3 doubles, where Egor Shestakov and Moritz Mayer got past Midwestern State's Quentin Scharfenberg and Angel Palacios by a score of 9-7 in the tiebreaker.
 
The Patriots used that momentum to collect straight-set victories from Jan Lucca Marquardt, Gonzalo Fernandez Gil, and Jonas Dixon, while Yudai Watanabe went to 3 sets and won his No. 4 singles match for the clincher, which secured the outright LSC title for UT Tyler.
 
The championship is the first Lone Star Conference team title for UT Tyler, whose track and field program produced a pair of individual LSC champions at this year's indoor track & field championships. The Patriots' volleyball team was the conference runner-up after advancing to the LSC Tournament title game in March.
 
With the victory, UT Tyler finished its 2021 campaign at 10-7 overall and 7-0 in LSC play, while Midwestern State fell to 9-6 overall and 4-2 in the LSC.
 
UT Tyler 5, Midwestern State 2
 
Doubles
No. 1 Jan Lucca Marquardt/Michael Apple (UTT) def. Alex Martinez Roca/Alexandre Crepy (MSU) 6-3
No. 2 Ben Westwick/Brice Bradshaw (MSU) def. Gonzalo Fernandez Gil/Jorge Sala Frigeri (UTT) 6-3
No. 3 Egor Shestakov/Moritz Mayer (UTT) def. Quentin Scharfenberg/Angel Palacios (MSU) 7-6 (9-7)
 
Singles
No. 1 Alex Martinez Roca (MSU) def. Egor Shestakov (UTT) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
No. 2 Jan Lucca Marquardt (UTT) def. Angel Palacios (MSU) 6-3, 6-3
No. 3 Gonzalo Fernandez Gil (UTT) def. Ben Westwick (MSU) 7-5, 6-1
No. 4 Yudai Watanabe (UTT) def. Alexandre Crepy (MSU) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
No. 5 Jean Muniz (MSU) def. Jorge Sala Frigeri (UTT) 6-2, 7-5
No. 6 Jonas Dixon (UTT) def. Alberto Diaz (MSU) 7-5, 6-4