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The men’ s at-large program for the CoSIDA Academic All-America ® program includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
Quevedo, a senior from Barcelona, Spain, graduated from Young Harris in May with a 3.99 GPA as a business and public policy major( economics concentration). Quevedo received the PBC Elite 15 Award this year. The PBC Elite 15 Award is presented in each of the league’ s 15 championship sports to the student-athlete participating in the tournament with the highest cumulative grade point average. Quevedo was named to the Peach Belt Conference All-Academic Men’ s Tennis team for the third consecutive year and has been named to the PBC Presidential Honor Roll three times.
Quevedo went 16-6 in singles this spring and tallied a 15-8 mark in doubles as the Mountain Lions went 9-11 as a team. Quevedo finished his Mountain Lion career holding the YHC record for most wins in singles( 64) and doubles( 66) in the program’ s NCAA era.
NCAA Men’ s Tennis: No. 7 Pirates Punch Ticket To Round Of 16 With Win Over No. 8 Lander
SAVANNAH, Ga.- The No. 7 Armstrong State University men’ s tennis team punched its ticket to the NCAA Division II Round of 16 with a 5-3 win over No. 8 Lander on Sunday afternoon at the Armstrong Tennis Complex.
Armstrong State used brilliant doubles play to take an unassailable 3-0 lead. The No. 19-ranked doubles duo of seniors Luca Cerin and Ignacio Hernandez defeated Omar-El Moslemany and Marc Hofer, 8-3, at No. 1 doubles, while freshman Alvaro Cruz Chomorro and junior Jan Porteset defeated Eirik Groner and Ozan Cildir, 8-3, at No. 3 doubles. Freshmen Bjorn Kurtze and Lorenzo Camilli then outlasted David Korsten and Jules Vauthier, 9-8( 3), at No. 3 doubles to complete the doubles sweep.
In singles play, Lander got a pair of straight-set singles wins to pick up a pair of points. Korsten defeated Hernandez, 6-2, 6-3, at No. 2 singles, while Cildir downed Cruz Chomorro, 6-3, 6-3, at No. 5 singles. Jan Porteset’ s 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Hofer at No. 3 singles made the team score 4-2, but Lander’ s El-Moslemany outlasted Kurtze, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, to make the score 4-3.
No. 38-ranked Cerin then clinched the match and the berth into the NCAA Round of 16 with his 7-5, 6-2 win over No. 42-ranked Groner at No. 1 singles.
This is the 13th straight trip to the NCAA Round of 16 for the Armstrong State men’ s tennis program. The Pirates have captured NCAA DII National Championships three times( 2008, 2009, 2012) and have advanced to the semifinals 11 times in program history.
2016-17 Men’ s Tennis All-Conference Team
First Team Singles Richard Ashforth, Francis Marion Luca Cerin, Armstrong State Patrick Oliveira, Augusta Kiranpal Pannu, Columbus State Alex Reinauer, North Georgia Niklas Zielen, North Georgia
Doubles Niklas Zielen & Alex Reinauer, North Georgia Ignacio Hernandez & Luca Cerin, Armstrong State Marc Hofer & Omar El-Moslemany, Lander
Second Team Singles Alberto Caceres Casas, Armstrong State Christian Graff, Georgia College Eirik Groner, Lander Ignacio Hernandez, Armstrong State David Korsten, Lander Lukas Storck, Flagler
Doubles Kiranpal Pannu & Maciej Kierkus, Columbus State Jan Porteset & Alberto Caceres Casas, Armstrong State Lukas Storck & Felipe Carvalho, Flagler
Elite 15 Award Presented by EAB Raul Quevedo, Young Harris
Freshman of the Year Antonio Sabugueiro, USC Aiken
Player of the Year Niklas Zielen, North Georgia
Coach of the Year Evan Isaacs, Columbus State
2016-17