Top seeded Maryville College will face off against second ranked Huntingdon College in tomorrow's Great South Athletic Conference men's tennis championship. The match will feature the league's Player of the Year (Glen Rudolph) and Freshman of the Year (Jonathan Heeter), both from Huntingdon, as well as every player named to the All-Conference team. Five of Maryville's six singles players were selected to the All-Conference team as were three of Huntingdon's.
Both teams had a relatively easy path to the championship match, winning their semifinal matches 5-0. Maryville took advantage of a short-handed LaGrange team, scoring two of their five points by forfeit. Huntingdon also faced little resistance from a Piedmont team that did not take more that three games in any individual match.
Playing without Glen Rudolph, Huntingdon dropped their only match with Maryville this season, 6-3. Maryville jumped out to an early 2-1 lead following doubles and managed to pull out four of the six singles points despite several highly contested back-and-forth matches that seemingly could have gone either way.
In addition to the tennis being played, All Conference honors were announced at a ceremony held between the women's and men's matches. The following individuals were honored:
Player of the Year: Glen Rudolph, Huntingdon College
Freshman of the Year: Jonathan Hibbert, Huntingdon College
Coach of the Year: Deidra and Millicent Dunn, Maryville College
All-Conference:
#1 Singles
William Alexander, Maryville College
Glen Rudolph, Huntingdon College
#2 Singles
Jimmy Fulton, Maryville College
B.J. Foroughian, Huntingdon College
#3 Singles
Brady Neal, Maryville College
#4 Singles
Andrew Hazel, Maryville College
#5 Singles
Sean Jackson, Huntingdon College
#6 Singles
Shin Arita, Maryville College
All-Freshman:
Jonathan Hibbert, Huntingdon College
Sean Jackson, Huntingdon College
Blake Craft, LaGrange College
Sean Buysman, Huntingdon College
As with the women's championship match, the start time for the men will be moved up due to the extreme heat in Macon. The women's match will now start at 11:00am and the men will play immediately afterwards.
For up to the minute updates during the 2009 GSAC Tennis Championship, go to http://www.gsactennis.blogspot.com/.
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