PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (April 10, 2022) – The Spring Hill College (SHC) men's tennis team lost 4-3 to the Benedict College Tigers on Sunday afternoon in the Finals of the 2022 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Men's Tennis Championship held at the Peachtree City Tennis Complex.
The match was tied 3-3 with SHC winning the doubles point, meaning that it all came down to No. 2 singles court that went into a 3
rd set tiebreaker where BC took a 6-4 nail-biter.
Benedict College 4, Spring Hill College 3
Singles competition
1. Mark Chigaazira (BC) def.
Fergus O'Rourke (SHC) 7-6 (9-7), 6-3
2. Killian Surmont (BC) def.
Rafael Lima (SHC) 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
3.
Ondrej Hlavon (SHC) def. Batsiraii Saurombe (BC) 6-3, 6-4
4. Divgurjot Singh (BC) def.
Charles Wallace (SHC) 6-3, 6-3
5. Jason Chigaazira (BC) def.
Paul-Philipp Kern (SHC) 7-5, 6-4
6.
Sebastien Torres (SHC) def. Richard Ngwarwi (BC) 6-2, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Wallace / Hlavon (SHC) def. M. Chigaazira / Saurombe (BC) 6-1
2. Singh / Surmont (BC) def. Kern /
Lezan Koyuncu (SHC) 7-5
3. Torres / O'Rourke (SHC) def. J. Chigaazira / Ngwarwi (BC) 6-2
Order of finish: Doubles (1, 3, 2); Singles (6, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2)
The Badgers (14-12) will closeout 2022 with a visit to crosstown rival the University of Mobile Rams (8-3) at the Gerald Wallace Tennis Center beginning at a 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
