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Senior tennis player Jonas Brobeck serves to his King College opponent in a match on Sunday at the Asheville Racquet Club downtown.
Men’s tennis team ends King College’s winning streak
Beckett Bathanti
sbathant@unca.edu - Staff Writer
Clouds and on and off rain
couldn’t stop the men’s tennis
team this weekend, as they de
throned p reviously undefeated
King College and conference
rival Winthrop, 7-0 and 6-1 re
spectively.
The loss for King College
on Saturday was the Tornado’s
first of the year and a helpful
win for the Bulldogs leading up
to Sunday’s match against the
reigning conference champion
Eagles.
“We had some momentum
coming off that Furman win,’’
said team captain senior Jo
nas Brobeck. “They’re a good
team, don’t get me wrong, but
we are the better team, and I
think we showed it.”
Head Coach Lise Gregory
agreed with the captain. “That
was a match that could have
been closer than it was, but we
had a lot of confidence and we
played very well.”
TTie Bulldogs defeated Fur
man 4-3 last week, for the first
time in team history.
Rain forced the match against
Winthrop indoors around 2:30
on Sunday afternoon, shortly
after the Bulldogs won the dou
bles points.
The match did not resume
until 4 p.m., and the team killed
time by playing cards and
watching college basketball.
The Bulldogs’ loose, genu
inely funny demeanor off the
court belies the intensity they
play with, Gregory said.
“They have a lot of fun in
practice and sometimes we
have to set them straight, but
when it comes to the matches,
they’re all business,” Gregory
said.
While Brobeck is an exuber
ant and frankly hilarious pres
ence around his teammates, he
is also a vocal leader in the heat
of battle.
Whether it is yelling encour
agement from the sideline or
encouraging his doubles part
ner, Matt Waissen, to keep up
the intensity, Brobeck is, as
junior Adrien Langeard said,
“Very loud and very good for
us.”
Brobeck and Waissen de
feated Winthrop’s Guy Kube
and Nadav Ruppin 8-3 in No.l
doubles, as all three sets of
doubles notched victories.
No.l flight Langeard, Pete
Conaty and Waissen won in
straight sets, but Winthrop’s
Rich Mead and Luka Stanic
pushed Thomas Rees and Ryan
Matthews to three sets.
Matthews’ match was par
ticularly hard-fought, even
though it occurred after UNC
Asheville already secured the
win for the day.
After winning the first set
7-6, Matthews dropped the
second set 0-6, before rallying
back to bury Stanic 10-3.
“We didn’t necessarily play
as well as we could have, but
we stuck to the game plan and
we stayed disciplined and that’s
why we were able to win,”
Gregory said.
Conaty, a junior transfer from
Austin Peay, played his match
after his teammates secured the
win.
“It can be tough to focus
sometimes when you know the
team has already won, but it
means a lot more individually,”
said the Sanford, N.C., native.
“Plus it looks a lot more im
pressive for the team to have
won 6-1 instead of 5-2,” he
said.
Conaty brings drive and en
thusiasm to the team, Gregory
said.
“He has been a great addition
for the team. He has jumped in
and been great in doubles and
played some singles too and
fits in really well with the rest
of the guys,” Gregory said.
The win over Furman seems
to have been an especially im
portant one for the Bulldogs.
“They used to schedule us as
a double-header. They loved ■
playing us,” Gregory said, ex
plaining the years of futility
against the Paladins. “That was
huge to beat them, especially
for our seniors, who played
them when they were schedul
ing us as a double-header.”
The win over Winthrop marks
the third straight victory for the
Bulldogs.
“I don’t know when the last
time we beat these guys was,”
Gregory said.
The last time the Bulldogs de
feated Winthrop was in 1998, a
good six years before Gregory
arrived in Asheville.
“If we play the way we are ca- ;
pable of playing, we will keep v
winning. This is where mental '
toughness is very important.” .
Gregory said.
The Bulldogs will travel to
the College of Charleston on
Friday and then take on Coastal
Carolina in Conway, S.C., on
Saturday.
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As a close friend of the
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be proud of as well. There’s
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Justice for All! The History of
the Justice Center is available at
the campus bookstore, Rocky’s
Doghouse and at www.martin-
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