The Sacramento State men’s tennis team aren’t too upset over their 4-0 loss to Montana State on Saturday in the Big Sky Championship match held in Phoenix, Ariz., having pulled an upset to get there.

Whether or not it was their day on Saturday, the Hornets had already put together a two-game winning streak to get themselves into the championship match. On Thursday the Hornets downed Weber State 5-0 in the quarterfinals and then on Friday Sac State pieced together a 4-3 victory in the semifinals against the No. 2 seed, Northern Arizona.

On Saturday, after losing the doubles point to the Bobcats, the Hornets lost three singles matches in a row, giving Montana State the points needed to win the match and the Big Sky Conference championship. In tournament games matches are called after enough points are scored to win the game. Three singles matches were stopped after Montana State won their fourth point.

“We lost 4-0 but there were some other matches going on that would’ve made that score closer than it seems,” Farkas said.

“It wasn’t really our day and I give some credit to Montana State, they came out firing and they played well and they just got off to good starts in all the matches,” said Foy. “They’ve got a pretty solid lineup but we definitely had our chances.” Instead of wishing they were this year’s champions, the players are looking at the positive outcomes of the season.

“It was a good season overall. We had some good moments,” senior Peter Farkas said. “Obviously it could’ve ended on a better note, but there are definitely some positives that we can take away from it.

“We had some good wins, some people stepping up at different times, just working on our games and giving ourselves the opportunity to win another Big Sky, we just came up a little short at the end.”

Even sophomore Warwick Foy, whose loss at the four clinched the win for Montana State, feels good about the season.

“Overall I think we had a pretty good season,” Foy said. “Everyone was playing well this weekend and everyone really believed that we had a good chance of winning the tournament, but it just wasn’t our day.”

The Hornets have come up short in the Big Sky tournament for the past two years after winning three straight Big Sky Championships from 2001-03. Earlier in the season, Sac State came as close as they could to a win over the Bobcats dropping the match 4-3 at in Sacramento.

It was after that match that three-time letter winner Matt Jones was dismissed from the team for unsportsmanlike conduct. That match marked the beginning of a season-long seven game losing streak in which the Hornets dropped five contests 4-3. Sac State finally got back on track right before the tournament with a 4-2 win over Montana in the regular season finale.