(Story courtesy of Trinity University
website)
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The top-seeded Trinity
University men are once again the tennis champions of the Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Tigers (14-12) won the title
for the second straight year (16th overall), with a 6-3 victory
over second-seeded DePauw University Sunday at Burns Park Tennis
Center. Official website
Led by second-year head coach Russell McMindes, the Tigers also
gained an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Regionals May
13-15, at a site to be determined. The NCAA Team Championship is
slated for May 24-26, and the singles and doubles event for May
27-29 at Claremont, Calif.
The Tigers, ranked 11th nationally, won two of the three doubles
matches from the No. 17 DePauw Tigers. Bobby Cocanougher and Cory
Kowal, NCAA doubles finalists last year, won the No. 1 match by
edging Noah Swiler and Sam Miles 9-8. Max Frey and Erick DelaFuente
took No. 2 doubles, beating Hunter Schouweller and Michael Rardon
8-4. DePauw won No. 3 doubles as Reid Garlock and David Moss beat
Ben Carroll and Don Murray 8-4.
Trinity's Greg Haugen gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead by winning No. 5
singles 6-0, 6-0 over Garlock. DelaFuente was next in the win
column, defeating Schouweller 6-3, 6-4 at No 3 singles. The
clincher came at No. 1 singles as Frey outfought Rardon 6-7, 6-4,
6-0.
Carroll widened the Tigers lead to 6-1 after a three-set 6-1, 3-6,
6-2 win over Andrew Kahn at No. 6 singles.
Miles beat Cocanougher 5-7, 6-2, 4-2, retired at No. 2 singles;
and Swiler was a 6-7, 6-2, 4-5, retired winner over Kowal at No. 4
singles. Both Cocanougher and Kowal retired after the outcome of
the match had been decided.
After the match SCAC Commissioner Dwayne Hanberry caught up with
Trinity head coach Russell McMindes to talk about the Tigers run to
a championship. To listen to coach McMindes, click here.
TRINITY 6, DEPAUW 3
Doubles
1. Bobby Cocanougher/Cory Kowal, Trinity, def. Noah Swiler/Sam
Miles 9-8
2. Max Frey/Erick DelaFuente, Trinity, def. Hunter
Schouweller/Michael Rardon 8-4
3. Reid Garlock/David Moss, DePauw, def. Ben Carroll/Don Murray
8-4
Singles
1. Frey, Trinity, def. Rardon 6-7, 6-4, 6-0
2. Miles, DePauw, def. Cocanougher 5-7, 6-2, 4-2, retired
3. DelaFuente, Trinity, def. Schouweller 6-3, 6-4
4. Swiler, DePauw, def. Kowal 6-7, 6-2, 4-5, retired
5. Greg Haugen, Trinity, def. Garlock 6-0, 6-0
6. Carroll, Trinity, def. Andrew Kahn 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
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