Men’s Tennis team sweeps

Bobcats cruise to easy victory in GCSU Fall Championships

The GCSU men’s tennis team enjoyed a successful opening weekend to their fall campaign, sweeping the titles in all flights in the Windstream GCSU Men’s Fall Championship last weekend.

Junior Jerome Leborgne put on a dominating display Saturday, winning the Flight “A” Singles. Leborgne beat Lander’s Carlos Marquez, 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals and then triumphed over teammate Tobias Rausch, 6-4, 6-3 in the finals. Leborgne had knocked off Lander’s Max Desmars, 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals after a first round bye Friday. Rausch, the junior transfer from Germany, had beaten Lander’s Christopher Mattsson, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the final. Prior to that, Rausch knocked off Piedmont’s Moses Das, 6-2, 6-4 and Joel Silverberg, 6-0, 6-2.

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Junior transfer student Tobias Rausch from Germany took second place in the Flight “A” singles to teammate Jerome Leborgne in the GCSU Fall Championships, Sept. 17-18.

Sophomore Wictor Andersson took home the title in Flight “B”, defeating Lander’s Matthew Leffler in the semifinal, 6-4, 6-1, and then knocking off Lander’s John Cappablanca, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in the final. On Friday, Andersson beat Lander’s Ross Armstrong, 7-5, 6-3 and then ABAC’s Heiter Couri, 6-4, 6-0. Junior Bobby Angelucci was also victorious, 7-6, 7-6 over Carson-Newman’s Chris Acker and then 6-0, 6-1 over ABAC’s Bryant Anglin. Angelucci dropped his semifinal match against Cappablanca.

Flight “C” proved to be more of the same for GCSU as freshman Mario Cardenas blew the competition away, trouncing Lander’s Gary Bertoldo, 6-2, 6-2 in the semis and then rolling past Lander’s Will Ream, 6-0, 6-1 in the final. On Friday, Cardenas knocked off Carson-Newman’s Paul Birdsong, 6-2, 6-2 and then beat Piedmont’s Greg Puckett, 6-0, 6-1.

The Bobcats continued their rampage in the doubles portion. In Flight “A”, freshman Rusian Bekoev and junior Leo Bernardes had little trouble disposing of Carson-Newman’s Chris Acker and Adriano Kira, 8-5 and then defeating Lander’s Leffler and Mattsson, 8-4 to advance to the final. On the other side, Leborgne and Rausch came out on top, setting up the final this week.

Andersson and sophomore Tyler Franks came out on top in the Flight “B” portion of doubles, beating ABAC’s Bryant Anglin and Billy Griffin 8-2 in the final.

The Bobcats return to action this weekend at the ITA Southeast Regionals beginning Sept. 24 and lasting through Sept. 27.

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