With a convincing straight set win, University of Minnesota-Morris sophomore Corey Kelzenberg (Fridley, MN) won the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) number five singles title at the University of Minnesota Baseline Tennis Center.
A number two seed in the number five singles flight, won his opening round match with a 6-0, 7-5 win over Jon Kehl of Martin Luther College.
That win put Kelzenberg into the championship match against Kyle Kjormoe of Northwestern College, the number four seed.
Kelzenberg had defeated Kjoremoe twice already this season by scores of 6-4, 6-2 on April 11th and 6-2, 6-3 on the 25th of April.
Corey won the first set 6-2 and breezed to a 6-1 win in the second set to win the championship and earn All-Tournament honors in the process.
The two wins give Kelzenberg a 9-1 overall record in singles competition this season.
In the number two singles flight, the Cougars Tyson Mastin (Fr. Blue Earth, MN), a number four seed took second place.
Mastin won his quarter final round match with a 6-1, 6-3 straight set win over Luis Berrospid of Bethany Lutheran.
In the semi finals, Tyler upset the number one seed Ian Wenzel of St. Scholastica with a great three set effort.
Wenzel won the first set 6-1, but Mastin took the second set 6-3 to set up the tie breaking match.
A convincing 10-1 win in the third set put Mastin into the title match against number two seed Dan Laitinen of Martin Luther.
Laitinen, who won the two previous matches during the regular season the two played, was a 6-0 6-0 winner in the championship match to win the title.
Mastin finishes the year with a 4-8 record in singles play.
In doubles action, Sean Gremmels (Jr. Glenwood, MN) and Mastin entered the tournament as the number four seed in the number one doubles flight.
They won their opening match defeating Sheehan and Berrospid of BLC 8-4 and then upended the number one seeded duo of Eric VanderStelt and Ian Wenzel of St. Scholastica by the same score of 8-4 to advance to the championship match.
In the title match, they met the Martin Luther team of Brad Nehls and Dan Laitinen for the third time this season.
On April 21, in New Ulm, Gremmels and Mastin won 8-4, but the following day in Morris, Nehls and Laitinen picked up an 8-6 win.
In a hard fought, very even match, Nehls and Laitinen prevailed 9-7 to win the title at number one doubles.
Completete look at the 2006 UMAC men's tennis post-tournament
