Wednesday, April 20
Chattanooga, Tenn.
2:00 p.m.
Davidson College Athletics
vs
vs. Wofford (#7 Seed)
Seniors Walker Lyons and Alison Rauh
Wildcat Men's & Women's Tennis Set For SoCon Tournament
4/19/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis, Women's Tennis
Gavin McFarlin -- Assistant SID
DAVIDSON, N.C. — The Davidson men's and women's tennis teams head to Chattanooga, Tenn., where they will take part in the 2011 Southern Conference Tournament, Apr. 20-23.
The Wildcat men (6-17, 2-8 SoCon), seeded 10th, will be seeking the program's 10th tournament title, and first since 1973, while the Wildcat women (5-19, 1-9 SoCon) are looking for their first title. The women are seeded 11th for the tournament.
The men will matchup in the first round against seventh-seeded Wofford (8-12, 4-6 Socon) on Wednesday, Apr. 20, at 2 p.m.. The Terriers closed out the regular season losing four of their last five matches, including the final two at home.
Should the 'Cats advance, second-seeded College of Charleston (15-5, 9-1 SoCon) awaits them in the next round on Thursday, Apr. 21, with match time set for 3 p.m. The Cougars finished in a tie for first with Elon during the regular season for the program's first ever back-to-back regular season championships.
The women will open tournament play vs. sixth-seeded Elon (11-10, 5-5 SoCon) on Wednesday, with match time set for 10 a.m. The Phoenix won four of their last six matches to close the season, including a 6-1 decision over the Wildcats.
If the women advance, they would take on third-seeded Furman (11-10, 8-2 SoCon) on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. The Paladins and Wildcats are very familiar with each other in the SoCon Tournament, having met in the six of the last nine tournaments since 2002, including matching up in the finals three times during that span.
All matches will have live stats and can be followed at soconsports.com.
The All-Time Series/Last Meeting
The men are 11-7 all-time vs. Wofford, including this year's 4-3 defeat back on Mar. 29. The match came down to the No. 5 singles between Walker Lyons and Drew Superstein, and a battle it was, going three sets. Superstein picked up the first set, 6-4, but Lyons went on to force the third set with his own 6-4 win in set two. The final set then went the distance in a back-and-forth affair that needed a tie-breaker to finish it. In the tie-breaker, Superstein prevailed, earning a 7-3 victory to give the Terriers the clinching team point for the win.
For the women, they had been 12-0 vs. Elon all-time prior to falling for the first time this year, 6-1, back on Apr. 6. In that match, played at Elon, Katharine Dicconson (Pacific Grove, Calif.) scored the lone win and point for 'Cats. The junior won her first singles match of the year with a straight set 6-3, 6-2 win over Jessica Margolis at No. 6.
SoCon Tournament History
Davidson men are 10-11 since 1998 in the tournament. They did not make it last year as the format was only the top-four teams advanced to the tournament. Two years ago, the 'Cats opened tournament play with a 4-3 win over Samford before falling to Furman in the next round.
The Wildcat women are 17-12 in the tournament since 1993, the first year Davidson was a part of the SoCon. In three of the past six league tournaments, they have reached the finals, facing Furman each time.
Last year they were one of four teams to reach the tournament, falling to top-seeded College of Charleston, 4-0.
Scouting the Wildcat Men by Position
No. 1 Singles- Joe Schafer ... finished a team-best 11-12, getting nine of those wins at the No. 1 spot ... went an even 5-5 in league matches ... played in 12 three-set matches, winning half of them, including a 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 triumph vs. Wofford's Tinus Van Wyk.
No. 2 Singles- Chris Mark ... second on the team with 10 singles wins, seven at No. 2 ... had a 6-4 mark vs. the league, a team-best ... has won 22 matches in his first two years as a Wildcat.
No. 3 Singles- Arie Hefter ... one of three seniors on the squad, picked up five wins during the regular season ... went 3-4 when playing at No. 4 spot ... owns 18 career wins during four-year Wildcat career.
No. 4 Singles- Walker Lyons ... closed the regular season with 8-14 singles record, getting half of his wins at No. 4 ... started his senior year winning four of his first five singles matches ... has totaled 37 career singles wins as a Wildcat.
No. 5 Singles- Calum Gee ... the junior was 4-3 at the No. 5 spot, 7-12 overall ... was an All-SoCon Second Team member last year at No. 5 when he went 15-3 between the No. 4 and 5 positions ... dropped his singles match vs. Wofford, 6-4, 6-3 as he moved up to No. 2.
No. 6 Singles- Kevin Moore / Ethan Kallick ... Moore saw action 14 times at the No. 6 spot, going 5-9 and winning a career-high seven games overall ... he was 2-5 vs. the league ... Kallick went 3-3 overall, getting all three wins at the No. 6 spot in his first year as a Wildcat ... was 2-1 in SoCon matches ... closed regular season 2-2 in final four singles matches.
No. 1 Doubles- Gee/Schafer ... the Wildcats had three of the better doubles teams in the conference, led by this duo, who went 9-10 at the No. 1 spot ... they were 5-4 vs. the league and closed out 6-4 in their last 10 matches ... helped the Wildcats take the doubles point vs. Wofford with an 8-3 win.
No. 2 Doubles- Kallick/Lyons ... the pair tied Gee/Schafer for team-high honors in wins with nine ... they were also 5-4 vs. the SoCon, but dropped their last two regular-season matches ... during the middle of the season had a team-best five-match win streak in doubles action.
No. 3 Doubles- Mark/Moore ... the duo went a team-best 5-2 in the league, closing out the regular season with an 8-6 win vs. Furman's No. 3 team ... went 7-8 overall ... turned it on in their final eight matches, winning six of them.
Scouting the Wildcat Women by Position
No. 1 Singles- Stephani Synn ... missed most of the middle stages of the season due to an injury, but returned for the final four matches of the regular season, winning two of them ... the junior was 4-10 overall, with a 2-2 record vs. the SoCon.
No. 2 Singles- Alison Rauh ... was 3-8 at the No. 2 spot ... totaled just four wins in senior year ... has picked up 37 career wins during her Wildcat career, inlcuding a personal-best 11 last year.
No. 3 Singles- Nisha Crouser ... saw action in 10 matches at the No. 3 position as a freshman ... scored first career collegiate win in first ever match, a 6-1, 6-1 win vs. North Carolina A&T.
No. 4 Singles- Brites Moniz-Soares ... scored the most wins on the team this year, going 8-14 between the No. 3 and 4 positions ... scored two of those wins vs. the league ... won two of her final three regular-season matches ... opened up collegiate career with three straight wins over North Carolina A&T, Gardner-Webb and Radford.
No. 5 Singles- Samantha Galainena ... has split time between the No. 4 and 5 singles slots ... scored all four wins this year at those two spots ... tallied a team-best 16 wins last year ... during her four years, has registered 31 career wins, 13 vs. the league.
No. 6 Singles- Romina Clemente / Frizzi Bschorer / Katharine Dicconson ... the Wildcats used five different players at the No. 6 spot, led by Clemente's seven games ... she went 3-5 in those seven games and 4-11 overall, with a 1-6 league mark ... freshman Bschorer played five of her eight matches at No. 6, recording a 2-3 record, including her first career SoCon win vs. Appalachian State, a 6-3, 7-6 decision ... Dicconson has seen all four of her matches at the No. 6 spot, getting just one win ... it was a 6-3, 6-2 triumph at Elon, Apr. 6.
No. 1 Doubles- Crouser/Moniz-Soares ... the freshmen tandem played eight games at the top doubles spot this year ... they registered a 2-8 record, with both wins coming vs. league foes Appalachian State and Wofford.
No. 2 Doubles- Synn/Rauh ... the junior/senior combo were a strong team in the late part of the season ... they rattled off three straight wins to finish the season and head into the tournament 4-1 on the year ... all four wins were against the SoCon.
No. 3 Doubles- Bschorer/Galainena or Dicconson/Galainena ... Galainena played with both Bschorer and Dicconson five times each ... she and Bschorer went 1-6 overall, 0-5 at the No. 3 spot ... she teamed with Dicconson for a 1-4 record ... overall the Wildcats were 7-17 at the final doubles position.
*the Wildcats used 17 difference combinations of doubles teams this year at all three positions.
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