Dec. 5, 2005

WACO, Texas - Baylor Men's Tennis' Lars Poerschke was ranked No. 1 in singles and the doubles team of Jon Reckewey and Matija Zgaga received the top spot in the South Central regional rankings released Friday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Five Baylor men received spots in the top 20 and two doubles teams were ranked in the top 10.

Michal Kokta also received a top 10 singles ranking coming in at No. 6. Reckewey and Matt Brown were ranked No. 14 and No. 15 respectively. Matija Zgaga also earned top 20 spot at No. 17.

In doubles, Kokta and Brown were the only ranked team for the Bears receiving the No. 10 ranking.

Other schools included in the South Central rankings were Texas, Texas A&M, SMU, TCU, Rice, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas-Arlington, Louisiana Lafayette and Texas Tech.

For a complete list of rankings, go to www.itatennis.com.