Baton Rouge, LA – The Southern University Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams will play host on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 17-19 to the SWAC Tennis Challenge. The Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division round up will be played on the University Courts and at Greenwood Park in Baker, LA.

The Southern men (1-5) and Southern women (1-8) will look to once again dominate the SWAC when they open up play tomorrow, March 17th at 9:00 a.m. as they go into their first conference match win against Texas Southern University. The Jaguars will see action again at 1:30 p.m. when they play Prairie View A&M University.

On Friday, March 18, the Jaguars will play host to Arkansas-Pine Bluff in their only match of the day.

On Saturday, March 19th conference rival Grambling State University will be SU’s opponent in the final match of the round-up. That contest will begin at 1:00 p.m. All of Southern’s contest will be played at the University courts.

A complete list of the round-up is listed below:

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Southern vs. Texas Southern 9:00 am (SUUC)

Prairie View vs. Grambling 9:00 am (GW)

Arkansas Pine Bluff vs. Texas Southern 1:30 pm (GW)

Prairie View vs. Southern 1:30 pm (SUUC)

Arkansas Pine Bluff vs. Grambling 4:30 pm (SUUC)

Friday, March 18, 2005

Prairie View vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff 8:00 am (SUUC)

Grambling vs. Texas Southern 11:00 am (SUUC)

Southern vs. Arkansas Pine Bluff 2:00 pm (SUUC)

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Prairie View vs. Texas Southern 9:00 am (SUUC)

Southern vs. Grambling 1:00 pm (SUUC)

Legend:

(SUUC): Southern University, University Court

(GW): Greenwood Park

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