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Salazar Garza helped lead the seventh-ranked Spartans to three wins over the weekend. He finished the three matches with a 2-0 record in singles matches and a 3-0 mark in doubles play. During the team's 5-2 win over 11th-ranked Kenyon College on Friday, Salazar Garza teamed with sophomore Leon Chen for a 7-5 win over Paulo Pocasangre Kreling and Jay Kedar Dixit, and went on to defeat Alejandro Gonzalez, ranked 21st in Division III, 6-7 (7), 6-1, 1-0 (8) in the no. 1 singles match. In the first match of a doubleheader against RIT on Saturday, he won the no. 1 doubles match with sophomore Rohit Jain 6-3 over Yu Tanimoto and Alexander Sinclair, and claimed a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Alex Turcotte in the no. 2 singles match to contribute to a 7-0 CWRU win. In another 7-0 Spartan victory in the second match against RIT of the day, he and Jon Totorica bested Nikko Tuxford and Anhann Boorela 6-0 at no. 2 doubles. Salazar Garza leads all Spartans with a 20-7 singles record this season and has gone 10-2 in doubles contests. The Spartans improved to 22-5 overall with the three wins.