Sports Shorts

Rita cancels cross country meet

The GC&SU men’s cross country team will not be making a trip to Texas this week.

The University of Texas at San Antonio announced Wednesday that the 2005 UTSA Invitational scheduled for Sept. 23 has been cancelled due to the emergence of Hurricane Rita on the Texas coast. There will be no makeup date.

The GC&SU cross country teams will be back in action at the Mercer Invitational in Macon on Saturday, Oct. 1.

Cronvall leads golf team in tourney

Johan Cronvall stayed two-under-par for three rounds, but the GC&SU golf team, which was one of only two NCAA Division II teams in a largely Division I field, finished 12th out of 14 teams at the Raines Development Group Intercollegiate Tournament held Monday and Tuesday at the Country Club of South Carolina. USC Aiken fired a final-round, three-over-par 291 team score to finish the tournament at 15-under-par 849. The score smashed the tournament record of 4-under-par 860, established by Jacksonville State University in 1998.

Cronvall was tied for 10th overall after carding rounds of 71, 71 and 72 on the par 72 course for a three-round 214.

GC&SU will be back in action October 3-4 at the Columbus State Invitational in Columbus, Ga.

Bobcat tennis team wins doubles title

GC&SU’s Erick Siqueira and Rodrigo Yamauti defeated Lander University’s Nicolas Legros and Boris Simic 8-4 on Sunday to win the “A” doubles title at the GC&SU Fall Championships at the Centennial Center Tennis Facility. The three-day tournament concluded with four different schools taking home hardware in the five flights.

Siqueira and Yamauti, the top seed in the “A” flight, opened play Sept. 13 with an 8-3 win over USC Aiken’s Carlos Huerta and Fernando Guevara.

The Bobcat duo followed with a 9-7 win over Armstrong Atlantic State’s Taavo Roos and Robert Jendelund on Saturday to reach the championship match.

Yamauti also reached the championship of the “A” singles flight before falling to Lander’s Joaquim Karlsson 6-2, 6-4 in Sunday’s title match.

Yamauti won his first round match 6-2, 6-0 over Lander’s Nick Tzekos on Friday and downed Armstrong Atlantic State’s Davor Zink 6-4, 6-2 to reach the semifinals on Saturday.

Legros and Simic defeated ABAC’s Derek Danziger and Justin Flynn 8-4 in the first match Friday and followed with an 8-5 win over Armstrong Atlantic State’s Cristian Easton and Davor Zink in the quarterfinals.

Karlsson went on to defeat GC&SU’s Siqueira 6-4, 7-6 in the semifinals on Saturday.

The Bearcats won their semifinal match 9-8 over ABAC’s Justin Pickham and Nikola Prpic.

That was followed by a 6-4, 6-1 win over Lander’s Nicolas Legros to reach the championship.

The men’s tennis team will be back in action Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Tournament.

Moran named as PBC player of the week

GC&SU’s Meredith Moran was named the Peach Belt Conference Women’s Soccer Player of the Week. Moran is the second GC&SU soccer player to ever receive this award, after the Bobcat’s Tami Pissott won the award in September 2004.

Moran led the Bobcats to three straight victories last week by scoring four goals in three games. She had back-to-back games with two goals.

Nine of Moran’s 11 shots were on goal, and she had the game winning goal at USC Aiken. She scored two goals in the Bobcat’s 3-0 victory over Lambuth last Wednesday, and followed that with two more goals on Saturday in the 3-1 win at USC Aiken. She is currently ranked third in the PBC in points per game.

Moran leads the team with five goals this season.

Moran and the Bobcats return to action at home Saturday at 7.p.m.

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