Grove City women secure PAC tennis title

Grove City women secure PAC tennis title

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Results
All-PAC recognition
PAC Sportsmanship Team

ERIE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – Grove City College netted titles in two of three doubles flights and four of six singles flights and compiled 56 total points to claim the this year’s team title at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Tennis Championship Tournament Saturday afternoon.

The league’s two-day flighted championship tournament returned to the Pennbriar Athletic Club in Erie for the 16th consecutive year.

It is Grove City's third conference title in the last four years. Overall, Grove City has won 29 PAC titles in women's tennis. With the league championship, Grove City claimed the PAC’s automatic qualifying bid to the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. Preliminary rounds are scheduled to be played in May 2018.

Thomas More College was the runner-up with 37 points, followed by last year’s PAC champion, Westminster College, in third with 35 points. Geneva College finished fourth (31) and was followed by Washington & Jefferson College in fifth (17) and Saint Vincent College in sixth (11). Bethany College (9) and Thiel College (9) finished tied for seventh with Waynesburg University finishing ninth (2).

Thomas More sophomore Brooke Warden (Edgewood, Ky. | Dixie Heights), the top seed at number one singles, claimed PAC Player of the Year honors for the second-straight year after posting a 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 victory over junior second seed Maggie Manchester (Williamsport, Pa. | Williamsport) of Grove City in the flight’s championship match. It was the second-straight year Warden and Manchester squared off in the championship final at number one singles.

Warden is the first women’s player to win back-to-back PAC titles at number one singles since Grove City’s Tamara Nations (2007-08).

Warden and first-year Hannah Lowman (Vine Grove, Ky. | North Hardin), seeded third in the first doubles flight, earned an 8-2 victory in the championship final over Westminster senior Gabby Eaborn (Coraopolis, Pa. | West Allegheny) and first-year Julia Serbati (Oil City, Pa. | Oil City), the flight’s top seed, to claim the title.

Grove City head coach Jeff Buxton, in his sixth year with the program, was voted the league’s Coach of the Year. It is Buxton’s second award (2014).
 
All-PAC First Team (flight champions)
Flight Name School Yr. Hometown | High School
1st singles Brooke Warden Thomas More So. Edgewood, Ky. | Dixie Heights
2nd singles Morgan Happe Grove City Fr. Pittsburgh, Pa. | Mount Lebanon
3rd singles Janine Jones Grove City Sr. Northfield Center, Ohio | Nordonia
4th singles Taylor Bradley Grove City Sr. Mount Pleasant, Pa. | Mount Pleasant
5th singles Hanna Kuhlkamp W&J Fr. Münster, Germany | University of Cologne
6th singles Rachel Ford Grove City Jr. Harrison City, Pa. | Penn-Trafford
1st doubles Hannah Lowman Thomas More Fr. Vine Grove, Ky. | North Hardin
Brooke Warden Thomas More So. Edgewood, Ky. | Dixie Heights
2nd doubles Taylor Bradley Grove City Sr. Mount Pleasant, Pa. | Mount Pleasant
Maggie Manchester Grove City Jr. Williamsport, Pa. | Williamsport
3rd doubles Jennifer Elder Grove City So. York, Pa. | Central York
Rachel Ford Grove City Jr. Harrison City, Pa. | Penn-Trafford
 
All-PAC Second Team (flight runner-ups)
Flight Name School Yr. Hometown | High School
1st singles Maggie Manchester Grove City Jr. Williamsport, Pa. | Williamsport
2nd singles Alex Marzouca Westminster So. Miami, Fla. | Immaculate Conception
3rd singles Grace Moyer Geneva So. Virginia Beach, Va. | Landstown
4th singles Julia Serbati Westminster Fr. Oil City, Pa. | Oil City
5th singles Jennifer Elder Grove City So. York, Pa. | Central York
6th singles Sarah Fellinger Thomas More Jr. North Bend, Ohio | Taylor
1st doubles Gabriele Eaborn Westminster Sr. Coraopolis, Pa. | West Allegheny
Julia Serbati Westminster Fr. Oil City, Pa. | Oil City
2nd doubles Alex Marzouca Westminster So. Miami, Fla. | Immaculate Conception
Patricia Pivaronas Westminster Sr. Saxonburg, Pa. | Knoch
3rd doubles Victoria Hinds Geneva So. Montrose, Pa. | Montrose
Laura Anderson Geneva Sr. State College, Pa. | State College
 
All-PAC Honorable Mention (consolation final winners)
Flight Name School Yr. Hometown | High School
1st singles Gabriele Eaborn Westminster Sr. Coraopolis, Pa. | West Allegheny
2nd singles Sara Stoll Geneva Sr. Norwalk, Ohio | Norwalk
3rd singles Nicole Capodagli Thomas More Jr. Cincinnati, Ohio | McAuley
4th singles Victoria Hinds Geneva So. Montrose, Pa. | Montrose
5th singles Felicity Orndoff Geneva Fr. New Stanon, Pa. | Greensburg Central Catholic
6th singles Casey Barton Westminster Fr. Forest Hills, N.Y | Dominican Academy
1st doubles Morgan Happe Grove City Fr. Pittsburgh, Pa. | Mount Lebanon
Janine Jones Grove City Sr. Northfield Center, Ohio | Nordonia
2nd doubles Grace Moyer Geneva So. Virginia Beach, Va. | Landstown
Jana Newberry Geneva So. Lititz, Pa. | Warwick
3rd doubles Matison Perry Thomas More Fr. Union, Ky. | Ryle
Lacey Pohlman Thomas More So. Fort Thomas, Ky. | Highlands
 
2017 PAC Sportsmanship Team
School Name Year Hometown | High School
Bethany Kristin Schafbuch Jr. Marpingen, Germany | Arnold Janssen
Geneva Jana Newberry So. Lititz, Pa. | Warwick
Grove City Janine Jones Sr. Northfield Center, Ohio | Nordonia
Saint Vincent Kate Palko So. Indiana, Pa. | Indiana
Thiel Marquett Samuels So. Austintown, Ohio | Austintown Fitch
Thomas More Sarah Fellinger Jr. North Bend, Ohio | Taylor
W&J Caitlin Shellhamer So. Birdsboro, Pa. | Daniel Boone
Waynesburg Wendy Wall Sr. Sidman, Pa. | Forest Hills
Westminster Gabriele Eaborn Sr. Coraopolis, Pa. | West Allegheny