Complete Bracket Results

Sophomore Calix Van Lier paced the Northern Colorado men's tennis team in its first fall event, posting a 2-1 record in singles and a 1-1 record in doubles action. The Bears were at the Drake Fall Invitational along with Creighton, Drake, Gustavus Adolphus, Minnesota, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville and South Dakota State.

In the ‘A' flight singles, Van Lier defeated Rob Young (SIUE) in straight love sets, 6-0, 6-0 before defeating Billy Paluch (Creighton), 6-3, 6-1. He was knocked out in the third round by eventual champion Cesar Bracho of Drake, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Van Lier paired with Ryan Lane for doubles action. The pair defeated South Dakota State's Jeff Moffatt and Morgan Salo 8-2 before dropping the second match to Billy Paluch and J.T. Christian of Creighton 8-5.

In ‘B' flight singles, both freshmen Rob Edwards and Ryan Lane lost their opening round matches. Edwards fell 6-3, 7-5 to Dylan Reed of SIUE, while Lane dropped a 6-4, 6-4 straight sets match to Kyle Obermeier. The two also lost in the consolation matches, with Edwards losing 6-4, 7-5 to Evan Sims of South Dakota State and Lane losing 6-4, 6-3 to Dominic Rossetto, also a Jackrabbit.

Freshman Conor Buchanon won his first match in the ‘C' flight, defeating Moffatt (SDSU), 6-1, 6-2 before losing to eventual champion Eddie Svenda (Minnesota) 6-0, 6-2. Freshman Travis Day was also victorious in his first round, needing a third-set tiebreaker to advance 6-4, 4-6, 10-6 over Martin Christensen (SIUE). He then lost 6-2, 6-2 in the second round to James McAvoy of Creighton.

Sophomore Andre Lepine dropped his opening round match to Kyle Olson of Gustavus Adolphus, 6-3, 6-2 and then fell in straight sets in the consolation round to Devon Faulkenberg (SIUE), 7-5, 6-2.

Buchanon and Day also won their opening doubles round, defeating Ryan Norman and Sean Mathison of Creighton 8-5. They lost to James McKie and Guilherme Marsiglia from Drake in the second round, 8-4.

Edwards and Lepine paired for the doubles competition, losing 8-1 to Michael Sicora and Svenda of Minnesota and 8-0 to McKie and Marsiglia of Drake.

The tennis team returns to the court Oct. 9-11 at the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, N.M.