Top-seeded College of Charleston won the Southern Conference men’s tennis championship against second-seeded East Tennessee State, 4-1, Saturday at the Donald C. Bunch Courts on The Citadel’s campus in Charleston, S.C.
College of Charleston claimed the doubles point from the help of Timo Siebert and Artie Peller against Buccaneer senior Marcos Pavlovich and junior Alejandro Salazar, 8-5.
In the No. 2 match up, East Tennessee State sophomore Moises Serrano and junior Diego Iglesias defeated Eyal Omid and Liran Kling, 8-6.
The third and deciding doubles point was won as Cougar’s Thorben Kolk and Philipp Koller defeated sophomores Fernando Fiuri and Federico Ochoa from East Tennessee State, 8-2.
For the men’s singles matches, No. 1 seed Cougar Siebert defeated Pavlovich, 6-3, 6-3. In a close match No. 2 seed Salazar from East Tennessee State defeated Omid, 6-3, 6-4.
In the battle of the No. 4 seed, Peller from College of Charleston defeated Fiuri, 6-2, 6-3.
College of Charleston also took the No. 5 seed when Kling outplayed Buc Serrano, 7-5, 6-2. Single seeds No. 3 Kolk from College of Charleston and Iglesias from East Tennessee State did not finish, as neither did No. 6 seed Koller from College of Charleston and Fransisco Diaz from East Tennessee State.
The 2003 SoCon Men’s Tennis Champion, College of Charleston, has gained an automatic bid in the NCAA Men’s Tennis Tournament to be played later this month at a date and time still to be decided.
ETSU defeated Furman, 4-1, in the third round of the SoCon men’s championships Friday.
The Bucs pulled out in front winning the first two doubles matches for the doubles point.
In singles, ETSU dominated the court with three wins to Furman’s lone victory at No. 5.
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Ranked No. 1 in the Southern Conference, the Furman Paladins defeated the eighth-seeded Buccaneers, 4-0, in the second round of the Southern Conference Championships at the City of Charleston Farmfield Courts.
Furman earned the doubles’ point with wins in the first two matches. Mary Kovarik and Natlie The won the first match, 8-5, over the Buccaneer tandem of Sylwia Ziolkowska and Aimee Villavicencio. Furman’s Krista Thompson and Mary Neil Hagood topped Tatiana Arriaran and Jewel Aldea, 8-2, to clinch the point.
In singles action, Kovarik defeated Ziolkowska 6-1, 6-0, at number one singles. Furman’s The picked up the number three win over Jessica Irey, 6-2, 6-2. Lauren Welch clinched the win for the Paladins in number six singles by defeating Villavicencio, 6-0, 6-3.
The Buccaneers end their season with an overall record of 12-17. Furman moves on to play fifth seeded Davidson.

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