Shorter College Men’s Tennis Advances To NAIA Nationals
Shorter College men’s tennis advances in NAIA Nationals with 6-3 win over Okla. Christian
In the first day of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Men’s Tennis National Championship, the Shorter College Hawks took a 6-3 win over No. 21 Oklahoma Christian to advance to a round two match against No. 2 Fresno Pacific on Tuesday at 2 p.m.
In the doubles matches, the Hawks fell behind 2-1, as Juliano Cirimbelli and David Araiza took Shorter’s victory in the No. 1 spot.
Shorter went on to win five of the six singles matches, to take the 6-3 win. In number one singles, Cirimbelli won the tiebreaker 11-9 to start the Hawks out on the right note. After taking a tiebreaker defeat at No. 2, Quentin Grieu, David Araiza, Josh Lewis and Francisco Franco easily took singles No. 3-6.
Shorter now advances to the second round where they will play the No. 2-ranked Fresno Pacific Sunbirds. The match will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
Complete scores are below.
Doubles:
#1 - Juliano Cirimbelli/David Araiza (SC) def. Justin DeBruin/Derek Viljoen (OCU) 8-1
#2 - Kyle Tefft/Ryan Stephenson (OCU) def. Henrique Tomaz/Francisco Franco (SC) 9-7
#3 - Esteran Flores/Adalid Martinez (OCU) def. Quentin Grieu (SC) 8-6
Singles:
#1 - Cirimbelli (SC) def. Flores (OCU) 2-6, 6-1 (11-9)
#2 - Tefft (OCU) def. Tomaz (SC) 5-7, 6-2 (10-8)
#3 - Grieu (SC) def. DeBruin (OCU) 6-3, 6-1
#4 - Araiza (SC) def. Juraj Surovy (OCU) 6-0, 6-1
#5 - Josh Lewis (SC) def. Martinez (OCU) 7-5, 6-1
#6 - Franco (SC) def. Viljoen (OCU) 6-4, 6-3
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Shorter College Women’s Golf Receives At-Large Bid to Nationals
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the qualifiers for the 14th Annual NAIA Women’s Golf National Championship, with the Shorter College Lady Hawks receiving an at-large bid. The tournament will be held at Lake San Marcos Country Club in San Diego, Calif., May 20-23, 2008.
This year’s championship will feature 23 teams, including 13 region champions and 10 at-large bids, and five individual qualifiers.
The Lady Hawks finished the season as the Region XIII runner-ups and ranked No. 9 in the final NAIA National poll.
Shorter’s Daniela Vargas hopes to continue her national dominance as the Lady Hawks travel to California. In the Region XIII tournament, she captured her second straight low medalist honors, after taking first in the Tusculum-hosted McAmis Memorial Tournament at the beginning of April.
Vargas, a sophomore from Ibague, Colombia, took two additional titles at the beginning of the season: first in the Birmingham-Southern Ann Rhoads Invitational, and the following week in the SCAD Invitational.
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Lady Hawks To Play In NAIA National Championships
The Lady Hawks will start pool play on Friday with their first game against Region VIII champion and No. 13 Bethel College (Ind.), with an 12:30 p.m. start time. Shorter will follow with a game against Region XII champion and unranked Indiana University-Southeast at 5:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Shorter will face some of their toughest competition all year, as they start the day at 10 a.m., against California Baptist University, the Region II champion and the No. 1 team in the nation. No. 8 Dickinson State Universty (N.D.), who received an at-large bid to Nationals, will play the Lady Hawks at 3 p.m.
At the completion of pool play, the top two teams from each of the four pools will advance on Mon. May 19, to a double-elimination eight-team bracket.
The Lady Hawks finished the Region XIII tournament last week as runner-ups, with an overall record of 49-11, after previously capturing the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament and regular season title.
After the completion of the Region tournaments, several Lady Hawks rank among the nation’s best as they head to Decatur.
Libby Munson, named SSAC Freshman of the Year, ranks seventh in the nation in wins (26), 25th in hits allowed per game (6.27), and 27th in opponents batting average (.195). Not only does she lead the team in ERA and strikeouts, but she also carries her weight at the plate with a team-leading .429 batting average.
Becca Thomas, Shorter’s other main starter, ranks 20th in wins (19) and 22nd in average walks allowed (1.20).
On the field, Lakyn Newton has putout an average 7.268 runners per game to place at 26th in the nation.
Jesscia Sanders ranks 34th in assists per game (2.5), 43rd in slugging percentage (.707), and 49th in total bases per game (2.107).
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Posted on April 14th, 2008.
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