AIKEN, S.C. – The University of South Carolina Aiken
tennis teams commenced their 2012 spring campaigns on Saturday with
impressive victories over future Peach Belt Conference foe Young
Harris.
The regionally 10th-ranked USC Aiken men's tennis
team acquired an 8-1 win over Young Harris (2-3), while the Pacer
women picked up a 6-3 win over the Mountain Lions.
The regionally-ranked Pacer men swept the doubles competition on
Saturday with the tandem of Guilherme
Destefani (Bauru, Brazil/Colegio Objetivo) and Lucas Gobbi (Santa
Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil/Colegio Politec) obtaining the
largest win for the Pacers in doubles with an 8-2 win over Young
Harris' Gabriel Oliveira and Keon Gottenbos at No. 2 doubles.
The USC Aiken men (1-0) were able to secure victory in five of
the six singles matches with Destefani, Patrick
Stiebinger (Weiden, Germany/Wichita State University), Bruno Orlandini
(Araraquara, SP, Brazil/Longwood), Gobbi and Josh Rees (Torquay,
England/Torquay Boy's Grammar School) all collecting wins.
USC Aiken's women's tennis team claimed the win in two of the
three doubles matches with the Pacers picking up wins at No. 2 and
No. 3 doubles. The doubles tandem of Manon Hermens (Bordeaux,
France/Universitè de Bordeaux) and Gina
Kothari (Leicester, England/Dixie Grammar School) bested Young
Harris' Katie Bryant and Stormy Dvorak, 8-1, at No. 3 doubles,
while Margot Simon (Nantes, France/St. Joseph de Loquidy) and
Andrea Cediel (Cali, Colombia/Cypress Bay High School) downed
Charlotte Moreau and Lina Parrra Pava of Young Harris (3-2), 8-2,
at No. 2 doubles.
USC Aiken (1-0) acquired a win in four of the six singles
matches with Simon, Cediel, Shauna Williams (Columbia, S.C./Broward
Community College) and Julie Maline (Amiens, France/Lycée
Louis Thuillier) all picking up singles victories.
The Pacer tennis teams were scheduled to face off against
Pfeiffer on Sunday, Feb. 5 in Misenheimer, N.C., but the matches
were cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather on
Sunday.
USC Aiken's men's and women's tennis teams will next travel to
Anderson, S.C. to take on Anderson at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.
11.
