Laurinburg,
NC—After the Coker College women’s tennis
team defeated Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference rival St.
Andrews, 8-1, the Knights men’s team barely had enough
time before the rain started on Tuesday afternoon to defeat the
Cobras 5-0.
The St. Andrews
men’s team was able to take five points
from Coker before the rain started to give themselves two straight
CVAC wins. The Knights won all three doubles matches and Daniel
Reuben (Esher, Surrey, England) and Jermaine Sadambura (Harare,
Zimbabwe) won their singles matches easily by the same 6-1, 6-0
score to clinch the victory for the Knights.
Knights
Men’s Tennis Wins CVAC
Opener over BAC, 5-4
February 22, 2004
Laurinburg, NC—Daniel Reuben (Esher, Surrey, England) and
Juan Carlos Arcila (Medellin, Columbia) each went a perfect 2-0
on Sunday afternoon as St. Andrews Presbyterian College defeated
Belmont Abbey, 5-4, in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference
men’s tennis action at the Scotland Tennis Complex.
The Knights, who have not played since February 8th, improved
to 1-1 overall and 1-0 in the CVAC while the Crusaders fell to
0-4 and 0-1.
Reuben and Arcila teamed up to win at No. 3 doubles along with
the Knights No. 2 doubles pair of Michael Okada (Lahaina, HI) and
Joseph Burnett (St. Elizabeth, Jamaica).
The Crusaders salvaged one point in doubles winning at the No.
1 spot with the team of Aaron Miller (Houston, TX) and Markus Tell
(Ft. Lauderdale, FL). Tell (No. 1), Miller (No. 2), and Rodolfo
Cardoso (No 3; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) each won their respective
singles match for BAC.
Reuben provided the Knights with a three set victory over Andrew
Gilmour (Greeley, Ontario, Canada) in No. 4 singles. After losing
the first set to Matt Ottaviani (Bayville, NJ), Burnett rallied
to win the final two sets and win No. 5 singles for St. Andrews.
Arcila provided the final point for theKnights at No. 6 singles.
The Knights host Coker for a CVAC match-up at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday
afternoon. The match is a rescheduled match from last Tuesday that
was postponed due to bad weather.
No.
18 Ranked Blue Hose Cruise to 9-0 Victory over the Knights
SAPC Men’s Tennis Begins New Era
February 9, 2004
CLINTON, SC—The
No.18th-ranked Presbyterian College Blue Hose defeated the
visiting Knights of St. Andrews College 9-0 in men’s tennis
action Sunday afternoon at the Callaway Tennis Courts.
The
match was the season opener for both schools. The game marked
the first regular season match for men’s
tennis at St. Andrews since 1998. Men’s tennis was restarted
this academic year along with the start of two new sports (women’s
golf and women’s tennis).
The Blue Hose opened the match winning all three
doubles matches including Graeme Lauriston and Paul Ratchford
combining at No. 1 doubles to defeat freshman Miguel Quinones
(Barranquilla, Columbia) and freshman Johnny Jamne (Barranquilla,
Columbia) 8-1.
PC carried their momentum into singles were they
swept all six matches in straight sets. Hector Rincon defeated
Quinones 6-2, 6-2 at No. 1 singles while Ratchford defeated freshman
Michael Okada (Lahaina, Hawaii) 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles. In
total, PC lost only 11 games in singles play and five in doubles
play on the day.
St.
Andrews returns to action on Tuesday, February 17 when they host
Coker College at 3:30 pm for the team’s
home opener.
Knights Have Good Showing in Coker
September 27-28, 2003
HARTSVILLE, SC—The St. Andrews
Presbyterian College tennis teams played well in the first outing
of the 2003/04
season at
the Coker College Invitational on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend
provided a good start for first year head coach William Carter,
as the Knights went up against several good Carolinas-Virginia
Athletics Conference opponents.
With only three players, the women collected just one individual
win against the tough opponents. In the A-Flight, Nicholi Marsh
lost 6-0, 6-1 to Lees-McRae. April Rowe, playing in the B-Flight,
lost 6-1, 6-3 to Coker. Both Marsh and Rowe lost to UNC Pembroke
players in the consolation bracket. Mandy Coltrain, playing in
the C-Flight lost her first match 6-1, 6-1 against Barton. Coltrain
bounced back with a 6-0, 6-1 win against NC Wesleyan in the consolation
bracket. Coltrain finally lost in the consolation bracket final
against Lees-McRae.
Marsh and Rowe competed in the doubles for St. Andrews losing
both matches 8-1 against Barton and UNC Pembroke.
The inaugural outing for the Knights
men’s
tennis team was very successful with six individual and two doubles
matches
won.
In the men’s A-Flight Miguel
Quinones lost in the first round to the No. 1 seed and eventual
champion from
Lees-McRae.
Johnny Janne also fell in the first round against Barton. Janne
lost in a good three-set match against Coker to be eliminated
from the consolation draw. Quinones went on to win the A-Flight
consolation
bracket with a three set win against Coker and a withdrawal in
the finals.
Michael Okada defeated Limestone 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of
the B-Flight and then lost to Barton. Daniel Reuben lost his first
round match up against Coker only to go on to win the B-Flight
consolation bracket. Reuben knocked off NC Wesleyan 6-0, 6-2 before
winning in a long and well played 6-3, 3-6 (10-4) match against
Limestone.
Jermaine Sadambura played strong
in the C-Flight winning his first match against Limestone, 6-7,
6-3, 6-0. Sadambura
faced
Barton’s
No. 1 player in the second round and lost 6-0, 6-3. Sadambura
finished fourth in the C-Flight after losing in the third place
consolation
match against another Barton player.
Quinones and Janne teamed up to
win their first round match against Coker, 9-8, in the doubles
A-Flight. Barton’s
No. 2 seed defeated Okada and Reuben in the first round and Quinones/Janne
in the second round. Okada/Reuben went on win the consolation
bracket
with an 8-1 win over Coker.
Hoke
County Native to Head St. Andrews Tennis
June
24, 2003
LAURINBURG,
N.C – Returning to the state of North Carolina
was a homecoming in more ways than one for William Carter,
who was named head coach of the St. Andrews Presbyterian College
men’s and women’s tennis programs.
A North
Carolina native, Carter is a 1988 graduate of Hoke County High
School and earned a Bachelor of Arts in business and economics
from St. Andrews in 1992. He began his collegiate tennis career
at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., and was a freshman
on a team that ranked 13th nationally in the NAIA. Carter spent
the remainder of his collegiate career at St. Andrews, playing
No. 1 singles and doubles for three seasons. As a junior, he
was seeded 12th in the NAIA Regional Tournament.
Carter
began his coaching career at St. Andrews, serving as head men’s
golf coach for two years and assisting with men’s and women’s
tennis as well as women’s basketball during the 1993-94
season. He then spent four years at Flora Macdonald Academy,
where he assumed a variety of roles, including athletic director,
interim headmaster, and coach for boys’ and girls’ basketball,
tennis, and golf.
Carter,
who will also coach the women's basketball program, most recently
served as head coach for women’s tennis and women’s
basketball at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. He joined the Wesleyan
staff as women’s basketball coach in 1998 and added the
duties of women’s tennis coach in 2001. During his tenure
at Wesleyan, Carter also coached volleyball for three seasons.
He
earned a Master of Science in sports management from the United
States Sports Academy in 1994 and is a certified teaching professional
with the United States Professional Tennis Registry.
The
Knights last fielded a men’s tennis team in 1998. The St.
Andrews women’s program was reinstated during the 2001-02
season, and the men will begin competition in 2003-04.
