Tuesday,
April 8, 2008
TUSCULUM’S CARLOS GARCIA NAMED SAC MEN’S TENNIS
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
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ROCK HILL, S.C. --- Carlos
Garcia of Tusculum College has been named the South Atlantic Conference
Men’s Tennis Player of the Week announced league officials Tuesday. This marks the second time this year Garcia
has earned this honor.
Garcia went 3-0 in singles and
doubles play last week to lead the No. 35 Pioneers to three victories. During TC’s 3-0 week, the Pioneers also
posted two critical South Atlantic Conference wins to take over sole possession
of first place in the league.
Garcia, a native of Caracas,
Venezuela, opened the week with a straight set win over Mars Hill’s Ugras Taylan Batuk, 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3 singles. He and No. 1 doubles partner Sergio Espinosa preceded that with an
8-4 win over the MHC duo of John Allen
and Koeche Smith.
In Tusculum’s 6-0 win over North
Greenville, Garcia defeated William Ho
6-3, 6-1 to go along with an 8-0 win in doubles over Tomas Kurhajec and Jacob Rogers.
Garcia accounted for a pair of
important points in TC’s 6-3 come-from-behind win at Newberry. In doubles, he and Espinosa won 8-6 over the
team of Jeremy Smith and Daryl Van Vuuren
for TC’s only doubles point of the afternoon.
Down 2-1, Garcia and the Pioneers won the top three singles matches,
including his 6-1, 4-0 (ret.) win over Smith.
Garcia improves his singles
record to 13-1 this season (5-0 in SAC) and has won his last 10 singles
matches.
The
SAC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week is selected by a vote of the league's
sports information directors.
The
Pioneers (15-1, 5-0 SAC) return to action on Friday when they host Catawba for
a 1:30 p.m. match at the Nichols Tennis Complex.
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