TIFTON — Dale White had hoped for a top three finish at the NJCAA men’s tennis nationals last week, but the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College head coach is satisfied with fourth place.

“Probably the best we could do,” he said.

ABAC’s Stallions finished with 28.5 points at the five-day tournament, which took place at Texas’ Collin College. The national championship went to ASA Miami with 47 points, second to Seminole State with 45 and third to Tyler Junior College with 41.

The team made four semifinals out of the nine flights. Though the bracket was not as rough as what the women faced in their nationals, White said some of the Stallions faced challenges in their draws.

Elvyn Nguyen, he said, had a tough flight and “even my No. 2 (doubles) team had a bad draw.”

Nguyen, who competed in flight No. 1, needed three sets to defeated Adam Elliget of Spartanburg in his first match. In his second, he battled Callum Poland-Smith of ASA Miami, who won nationals in 2015. Poland-Smith remained in top form, defeating Nguyen in two sets and ultimately lost in the finals.

No. 2 doubles consisted of Deepak Vishavkarma and Martin Zarate. They were eliminated by Philip Franken and Ciro Lampasas of Tyler Junior College, a duo who were also runners-up.

Despite the bad luck of Vishavkarma and Zarate, doubles made up half the team’s semifinals. Eymeric Chevalier and Nguyen were eliminated by Ferran Calvo and Enrique Pardo of Tyler and and Aykut Ayputrahman and Ray Donovan likewise made it to the fourth round, only be eliminated by national champs Anru Fourie and Stefan Gonzalez of Seminole.

White had worried about how doubles would do going in and admitted their results were “definitely the one thing that surprised me.”

All three of the teams Chevalier and Nguyen faced were in the top 10, he said. A third set or tiebreaker was necessary in the first two, both wins, before the Tyler pair eliminated them. White said their performance at Collin was their best all season.

Ray Donovan and Chevalier were semifinalists in singles flights. Chevalier’s opponent, Franken, finished on top in his bracket and Donovan’s, Eric Ahren Moonga of ASA, was runner-up in his.

White was impressed with Donovan’s run.

“Ray had a great chance to make the final,” he said. Moonga won the first set between them, 6-3, but Donovan returned fire for a 6-4 win in the second set. In the third, White said he went up 4-2, but couldn’t hold on. “He played great,” White said.

Besides their opponents, rain was a daily battle; White said that every day matches were delayed. Many matches were moved to Southern Methodist University, but he does not think the weather affected their play.

“I don’t think it affected too much,” he said. “It just moved everything back.”

White was hoping to take it easy for a few days after two consecutive weeks in the Lone Star State, but he was gearing up towards a big summer. He already has two commitments for the 2016-17 team as well as a tennis camp from July 18-24 at ABAC. The recruits are coming in from France and Australia, he said.