Tennis wins six in Owensboro

Georgetown College men's and women's tennis kicked the spring season into high gear with neutral site victories this past weekend.

In the new scoring format, doubles count for a single point. In the matches in Owensboro, Ky. all teams agreed to pull when the match was over, giving the Tiger women three 4-0 victories. The men did the same minus a match with Kentucky Wesleyan College where no doubles were played. The Tiger men won two matches 4-0 and handed KWU a 6-0 defeat.

On the women's side, it all started with a Friday match with Brescia University. GC only dropped two games in the seeds where points were tallied. Two and three doubles won in perfect fashion. Katie Swanson and Noel Bielski were in two doubles, while Bailey Thompson and Lauren Moore played three. The Bearcats dropped both battles 6-0.

Georgetown just needed three singles wins to finish the match. Senior Madelyn Kauffman, three singles, and Swanson, four singles, took care of business with 6-0, 6-1 and 6-1, 6-0 wins respectively. Moore also tallied her second point of the match with a 6-0, 6-0 win at six singles.

Saturday, Bethel University – which will join the Mid-South Conference next year – presented a bit more of a challenge. The Tigers won the doubles point when Thompson and Moore went perfect again and Maci Ferguson and Kauffman won one doubles 6-1.

Ferguson, Swanson and Kauffman were the first to finish singles, ending the match 6-1, 6-2; 6-1, 6-0; and 6-2, 6-1 respectively.

Kentucky Wesleyan did not have a full team, thus defaulted the singles points to Georgetown. Lauren Fazenbaker and Kauffman won one doubles 6-0 and Thompson and Bielski sealed the win at two doubles 6-0.

The men started with a 4-0 win over Brescia as Josh Piunti and Logan Smallwood did not drop a game in two doubles and Philipp Hoeper and Isaac Mathis won 6-4 in three doubles. Cole Wilson picked a 6-3, 6-1 win at the top singles, Hoeper picked up another point when he won set one 6-0 and his opponent retired. Mathis finished it off as he was winning set one 5-2 when his opponent defaulted.

Doubles was rolling again Saturday against Bethel when Piunti, Smallwood and Hoeper, Mathis again put the Tigers up 1-0. Wilson, Parker Clarke and Mathis picked up the singles points 6-0, 6-1; 6-2, 6-1; and 6-2, 6-1 respectively.

It was all Georgetown in the final match of the day as KWC and GC agreed to singles only and must win eight games. The Panthers managed to win seven games all day. Wilson won 8-1 at the top spot. Down from there it went Piunti by default, Clarke 8-2, Smallwood 8-1, Mathis 8-1 and Jared Towell 8-2.

The Tigers are back in action with a road match Sunday at Milligan College in Tennessee.