Bobcat tennis teams sweep through weekend matches

The Georgia College tennis teams racked up three victories apiece to add to their undefeated seasons on the road last weekend.

The teams traveled to North and South Carolina to face off against tough opponents as they played their first match against a Peach Belt Conference contender.

The No. 12 men’s team walked away with a decisive 6-3 victory over No. 25 USC Aiken on Friday, which according to Head Coach Steve Barsby, was the most difficult match of the weekend for the men.

Wadstein

“The guys were fired up for Aiken,” Barsby said. “Then they just went through the motions for the rest of the weekend.”

Though Barsby was unimpressed with the energy the men’s team put into the rest of their matches last weekend, they were spirited enough to come out on top.

The match on Feb. 12 against Mars Hill College brought an 8-1 victory for the Bobcats. The weekend’s marathon of matches ended at Wingate University with a much closer margin of victory. The Bobcats narrowly defeated the Bulldogs 5-4.

Sophomore Johan Wadstein and junior Jerome Leborgne proved themselves to be a formidable doubles team on the road this weekend.  Their only loss of the weekend came from USC Aiken who beat the pair 8-2.

“We didn’t play solid at all,” Wadstein said. “We missed a lot of serves and we missed a lot of returns. We didn’t play our game and we gave them a lot of balls.”

Against Wingate and Mars Hill, the pair earned an 8-2 win for the Bobcats.

Women’s tennis started Friday with a triumph over USC Aiken 6-3. Saturday the team rallied together to pummel UNC Pembroke 8-1.

Sunday the ladies also finished the weekend series with Wingate and won with a comfortable final score of 6-3 though this was the game that was most difficult according to Barsby.

Sophomore Kayla Barksdale was named the key player for the weekend by Barsby.

The only time Barsby was concerned about a loss for Barksdale was against Wingate.

“Her Sunday singles game was rough but she battled back to win,” Barsby said.

Barksdale went 6-0 for the weekend.

“I think we played really well. We have a pretty new team, but they all played very well and we got good results,” Barksdale said.

Barksdale may have performed well individually, but overall Barsby was not pleased with the individual efforts of the rest of the team and cited it as the biggest issue of the weekend on the women’s side.

“I thought the girls worked well as a team, but we never put it together individually,” Barsby said.

Coming up this week on the teams schedule are SCAD on Feb. 18 and Armstrong Atlantic on Feb. 20.

Barsby is confident that the Bobcats will beat SCAD, but Armstrong Atlantic is up in the air.

“Armstrong is expected to be the toughest match of the season. We are going to give them a run for their money and see what happens,” Barsby said.

Wadstein is looking forward to the match.

“It’s going to be tough.  But I think it is going to be fun for all the new guys to get to play against really tough competition. Everyone is going to be pumped up, and the atmosphere is great when we play against them. Everyone is fired up,” Wadstein said.

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