Newman, a junior, dropped only one game en route to a pair of No. 4 singles victories against Carthage and Wartburg. He topped Carthage's Alex McLean, 6-1, 6-0, and Wartburg's Blayne Willadsen, 6-0, 6-0. He also teamed with Noah Sprinkel to split a pair of matches at No. 1 doubles. The pair fell to the region's sixth-ranked tandem of Daneric Hanzelman and Jeff Lotz of Carthage, 8-6, and topped the Wartburg pair of Chris Buckingham and Josh Trueblood by an 8-2 score.
