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The Clarion \ April 10,2019
BC tennis battles Maryville and Covenant
By Carmen Boone
Copy Editor
The Brevard College men’s and women’s
tennis teams played an away match at Maryville
College on Wednesday, April 3 at 1:30 p.m.
For the men’s team, Tom Mittring and Tim
Hengst beat Austin Smith and Cole Stinson
8-1 at number one doubles. At two doubles,
Andrew Ingram and Tyler Frazee won 8-2
against Beau Branton and Egan Spoltore.
Brevard forfeited three doubles for lack of
players.
Mittring played Smith at one singles and won
6-0, 6-0. At two singles, Hengst won 6-0, 6-0
against Stinson. Frazee beat Branton 6-0, 6-0
at three singles. At four, Nathan Boepple beat
Spoltore 6-0, 6-0. Ingram played Underdown
and won 6-0,6-0. Brevard forfeited six singles.
The men beat Maryville with a score of 7-2.
The women played well too.
At one doubles, Sam Sepe and Kelsey Kushner
beat Anya Dunn and Kayla Zimmerman 8-3.
Jen Cox and Darden King won a tiebreaker
8-6 for the winning set score of 8-7 against
McKennah Francis and Carter Dickinson at two
doubles. At number three doubles, Margaret
Correll and Eleanor Flannery won 8-5 against
Savannah Baina and Kaleigh Basilio.
Sepe one number one singles 6-0,6-0 against
Francis. Kushner won the first set 6-1, lost the
second 2-6 and lost the final tiebreaker 4-10 to
Zimmerman at two singles. At three singles.
King won 6-1, 6-0 against Dickinson. Cox
won four singles versus Dunn 6-4, 6-1. Correll
battled it out with Bain at five singles and lost
the first set 2-6, won the second 6-1 and lost
in the tiebreaker with a close score of 9-11. At
six singles, Flannery lost 1-6, 1-6 to Basilio.
The women won the match 6-3.
On Saturday, April 6, at 2 p.m., Brevard
played a home match against Covenant
College.
Before the match began, they held their
Senior Day celebration.
They honored Mai Sakuma, who has been
a student intern helping the team out with
everything they needed the entire spring
season, and who will graduate in May of
2019. Darden King was also honored, she
will graduate in May of 2019 as well. Kelsey
Kushner completed her degree in three years
here and was honored as a graduate for May
of2019.
Nathan Boepple was honored for plans to
graduate in December of2019. After that, Tom
Mittring was honored as a graduate for May
of 2019. Tim Hengst was also honored as a
graduate for May of 2019.
Starting with the men. Mittring and Hengst
won 8-3 at one doubles against Paxton
Hoggerty and Trey Wood. At two doubles,
Frazee and Boepple fell to Logan Hull and
Chris Morton 1-8. Brevard forfeited three
doubles for lack of players.
Mittring won one singles 6-2, 6-4 against
Hull. Hengst beat Hoggerty at two singles 6-1
in the first set and won the tiebreaker 7-3 in
the second set for a winning score of 7-6. At
three singles, Frazee won 7-6, 6-1 against Ben
Luke. Boepple fell to Cameron Cortman at four
singles with a score of 1-6, 2-6. Ingram lost
five singles to Tyler Kelly 1-6, 0-6. Brevard
forfeited six singles.
The men lost a close match with score of 4-5.
At one doubles, Sepe and Kushner won 8-2
against Esther Eddy and Margo Koby. At two
doubles. King and Cox beat Mariah Weston
and Masha Lanskow 8-1. Correll and Flannery
fell to Laney Beckwith and Justine Blick with
a score of 5-8 at three doubles.
At one singles, Sepe won 6-1, 6-0 against
Eddy. Kushner won two singles against
Lanskow 6-2, 6-0. At three singles. King won
6-2, 6-0 against Koby. Cox fell to Blick at four
singles 3-6, 2-6. At five singles, Correll lost to
Beckwith 3-6, 2-6. Flannery won six singles
with a tiebreaker score of 7-3 for a score of 7-6
in the first set and 6-2 in the second set against
Anna Logan.
The women won the match 6-3.
Darden King hits a winner.