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May 5, 2008
GREENCASTLE, Ind. – The
19th-ranked DePauw University Tigers edged top-ranked Trinity
University, 5-4, and captured their second straight Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference title. With the win, DePauw improved
to 18-6 on the season and earned the conference's automatic qualification
into the NCAA Division III Championship.
Trinity took a 2-1 lead after winning first and third doubles,
but the Indiana Tigers picked up straight set wins at third through
sixth singles for the win. Bryan Heck, Scott Sandager, Scott Sauer
and Evan Hunter, who picked up those wins, all were named to the
2008 SCAC All-Tournament Team. Heck and Sandager also made the
team as an undefeated team at No. 2 Doubles. It is the third consecutive
year that Heck has made the all-tourney team as both a singles
and doubles player.
Sandager was part of the 2007 all-tourney team as Heck's partner
at No. 3 Doubles.
James Furr and Crisanto Ramirez of Trinity, who made this year's
team both as individuals (No. 2 and No. 5 singles respectively)
and for their work at No. 3 doubles, are repeat honorees from a
year ago when they both made the all-tourney singles team.
The doubles team of Wes Hill and Murphey Parker of Millsaps College
are the first team to go 4-0 at a SCAC championship since Coyle
and Hoffman of Centre College accomplished the feat at the 2002
championships.
Below
is a list of the 2008 SCAC Men's Tennis All-Tournament Team:
Singles Play:
#1 Charlie Boyd, Sewanee-University of the South 3-0
~ Doug Arnold, Centre College 2-0
#2 Luca Cerenko, Oglethorpe University 3-0
~James Furr, Trinity University 3-0
~Eric Wesolowski, Centre College 2-0
#3 Bryan Heck, DePauw University 3-0
~Grayson Lucas, Rhodes College 3-0
#4 Scott Sandager, DePauw University 3-0
~D'Artagnan Bebel, Southwestern University 3-0
#5 Scott Sauer, DePauw University 3-0
~Wes Hill, Millsaps College 3-0
~Crisanto Ramirez, Trinity University 2-0
#6 Evan Hunter, DePauw University 3-0
~Alex Jansen, Southwestern University 3-0
~Ryan DeSantis, Trinity University 2-0
Doubles Play:
#1 Luca Cerenko / Felix Mann, Oglethorpe 3-0
~Ryan DeSantis / Oliver Gaines, Trinity 3-0
#2 Bryan Heck / Scott Sandager, DePauw 3-0
~Ross Beall / Brick Faucette, Oglethorpe 2-0
#3 Wes Hill / Murphey Parker, Millsaps 4-0
~James Furr / Crisanto Ramirez, Trinity 3-0
*Any player (or doubles team) that goes through the conference
tournament undefeated is named to the all-tournament team automatically,
but a player (or doubles team)
must compete in at least two matches at the tournament to be considered. If
no one player or team goes undefeated using the above criteria,
then the next best
record at that position will be named to the all-tournament team.
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