Westminster, Grove City tie for PAC women's tennis team title 10/24/2015 5:41:59 PM PAC Women's Tennis Championships final results PAC Women's Tennis Championships photo gallery Saint Vincent head coach Jym Walters and junior Susie Ellis earned PAC Coach of the Year and Player of the Year honors Saturday. Grove City was voted the league's Team Sportsmanship Award winner Saturday. ERIE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) –Westminster College and Grove City College tied for the team title at the 2015 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Tennis Championship Tournament Saturday afternoon. The league's two-day championship tournament was held for the 14th-straight year at the Pennbriar Athletic Club in Erie, Pa. The Titans and Wolverines each finished the flighted championship event with 43 points. The conference championship is Grove City’s 28th and is the third for Westminster. The tie for the league title is the second in the 31 year history of the women's tennis championship (Saint Vincent College and Westminster tied for the title in 2012). Westminster earned the PAC’s automatic qualifying bid to the 2016 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championship by virtue of its 5-4 head-to-head victory over Grove City College on October 10. Westminster held a two-point lead over Washington & Jefferson College (37-35) and a four-point advantage over Grove City (33) heading into Saturday’s consolation final and championship rounds. The Titans secured league championships in second doubles and fourth singles, were runners-up at third doubles and second and sixth singles, and claimed third-place finishes at third and sixth singles. Grove City finished with conference championships at third doubles and second and sixth singles, a second-place showing at fourth singles, and third-place finishes at first and second doubles and first and fifth singles. W&J finished third in team standings with 39 points, followed by Saint Vincent in fourth (32), Thomas More College in fifth (17), Geneva College in sixth (15), Waynesburg University in seventh (9), Thiel College in eighth (5), and Bethany College in ninth (4). The conference saw six of its nine participating schools advance a player or doubles pairing to the championship round for the first time in league history. Saint Vincent junior Susie Ellis (Duncansville, Pa./Hollidaysburg Area) earned the conference's Player of the Year award after winning the league title at number one singles. Ellis, the flight’s top seed, defeated the number six seed, W&J senior Courtney Brennan (New Kensington, Pa./Valley), in the title match 6-4, 6-3. Ellis is Saint Vincent’s first Player of the Year since Alexis Cup won the award in 2010. She is also just the second Saint Vincent woman to claim Player of the Year honors. Saint Vincent second-year head coach Jym Walters was voted the league’s Coach of the Year. Grove City and fourth-year head coach Jeff Buxton were voted the PAC’s Team Sportsmanship Award winner.