(Story taken from the Trinity University
website)
WHITEWATER, Wisc. – The Trinity Tigers men’s
tennis team opened the NCAA Division III Whitewater Regional with a
5-0 second-round victory Saturday over the Carleton College
Knights.
Trinity (17-9), which won its 13th straight match, will take on the
winner of Kenyon and host Wisconsin-Whitewater at noon Sunday in
the third round. The winner of Sunday’s match will advance to
the NCAA Championships Tournament, to be held May 25-27 at Oberlin,
Ohio.
The Tigers, who received a first-round bye, won three tightly
played doubles matches. Bobby Cocanougher and Cory Kowal edged Dan
Vollman and Winston Park 9-8 (6) at No. 1 doubles. Erick DelaFuente
and Max Frey beat Peter Dunn and Paul Cooper 9-8 (5) at No. 2
doubles. Ben Carroll and Don Murray completed the sweep by
defeating Austin Jiang and Jon Aranda 8-4.
Cocanougher beat Park 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2 singles. The clincher for
the Tigers came at No. 4 singles, with Kowal emerging as a 6-1, 6-4
winner over Vollman.
Four of the singles matches did not finish, as the dual match was
halted after the fifth point was won: No. 1, Frey vs. Dunn; No. 3,
DelaFuente vs. Jiang; No. 5, Murray vs. Alexander Chin; and No. 6,
Carroll vs. Cooper.
Trinity is led by first-year head coach Russell McMindes, a former
Tiger standout. He was voted the Southern Collegiate Athletic
Conference Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year, leading the Tigers
to a 15th SCAC Championship. The Tigers beat DePauw 5-3 in
last month’s tourney at North Little Rock, Ark., and gained
the NCAA automatic bid.
The Tigers are playing in their 17th NCAA Tournament, and the
first since 2008. Coach Butch Newman, now Trinity’s Director
of Tennis, guided the Tigers to 16 straight NCAA Tournaments.
Trinity’s men and women captured the NCAA Championships in
2000.
TRINITY 5, CARLETON 0
Doubles
1. Bobby Cocanougher/Cory Kowal, Trinity, def. Dan
Vollmann/Winston Park 9-8 (6)
2. Erick DelaFuente/Max Frey, Trinity, def. Peter Dunn/Paul
Cooper 9-8 (5)
3. Ben Carroll/Don Murray, Trinity, def. Austin Jiang/Jon
Aranda 8-4
Singles
2. Cocanougher, Trinity, def. Park 6-1, 6-1
4. Kowal, Trinity, def. Vollman 6-1, 6-4 (clinch
match)
1. Frey, Trinity, vs. Dunn, did not finish
3. DelaFuente, Trinity, vs. Jiang, did not finish (6-2,
4-3)
5. Murray, Trinity, vs. Alexander Chin, did not finish (4-6,
3-1)
6. Carroll, Trinity, vs. Cooper, did not finish (7-5, 1-0)
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