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The Clarion \ September 4, 2019
New head tennis coach
announces Fall schedule
By Joseph Marvin
Assistant Sports Information Director
The men’s team will play a total of four matches over the course
of the September and October months. BC’s women’s team kicks off
its Fall season by taking part in the Battle of the Blue Ridge, a two-
day tournament on Sept. 7-8 hosted by Sweet Briar College in Sweet
Briar, Virginia. Opponents for the Battle of the Blue Ridge are still to
be determined.
Following the women’s tournament at Sweet Briar College, the two
teams join together for the rest of the Fall season.
First, the Tornados host USA South foe Piedmont College in a non
conference tilt at the McCoy Tennis Complex on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at
3 p.m.
BC then takes 11 days off before traveling to Wise, VAto square off
against NCAA DII opponent UVA-Wise on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 12 p.m.
The Tornados then wait just over a week for their next match, a Sunday
afternoon showdown with fellow NCAA Dill transitioning member
and USA South Conference Member Pfeiffer University on Sept. 29
at 1 p.m. The matches will be held on the road in Misenheimer, NC.
Brevard closes out its fall season with a matchup against local foe
Montreal College on Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. The matches are slated
to take place in Montreal, NC.
The Tornados Tennis programs are both coming off impressive 2018-
19 seasons that saw them reach new heights both individually and as
a team. First-year Head Coach Brad Jones inherits a women’s team
that finished third in the USA South West Division and battled for a
divisional crown until the very end a year ago. The men’s side graduated
two strong performers in Tom Mittring and Tim Hengst, who received
numerous conference and national accolades.
The Tornados also received numerous ITA academic plaudits over
the summer. Brevard College Women’s Tennis student-athletes Carmen
Boone, Margaret Correll, and Eleanor Flannery- along with BC alumna
Kelsey Kushner- were named Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA)
All-Academic Scholar-Athlete honorees, while the women’s team as
a whole received the ITA All-Academic Team honor. On the men’s
side, BC Alumni Hengst and Mittring both received ITA All-Academic
Scholar-Athlete awards.
Photo credit BC Tornados
Sam Sepe hits a winning forehand during a homecourt match.
Rojas named USA South Women's
Soccer defensive player of the week
By Joseph Marvin
Assistant Sports Information Director
After an impressive season-opener last Friday night versus Emory &
Henry, junior goalkeeper Rebeccah Rojas has been selected as the USA
South Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week. Rojas becomes
the first Tornado student-athlete to earn the honor in the 2019-20
academic year. The Murrieta, California, native earned the honor once
in her sophomore season as well.
Rojas led an impressive defensive effort that saw the Tornados shut
out the Wasps of Emory & Henry over the course of a double-overtime
draw, 0-0, last Friday at Ives-Lemel Family Field. Rojas stopped a total
of seven shots to keep a clean sheet in the shutout of non-conference
foe Emory & Henry.
Brevard (0-0-1) will return to the pitch on Wednesday as the Tornados
embark on a season-long four-match road swing starting in Winston-
Salem, NC, where BC will square off against the Piedmont International
University Bruins (1-1). Start time is scheduled for 5 p.m. Following
three other road contests (Methodist University: Sept. 7, 1 p.m.; Allen
University, Sept. 10, 7 p.m.; Southern Virginia University: Sept. 14, 6
p.m.), Brevard will return to Ives-Lemel Family Field to face off with
Salem College on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.
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