Men's tennis finishes second at PAC Championships

Yellow Jackets pick up four individual second-place finishes

(From far left to right): Waynesburg's Jason Logan, Emile Khoury, Jon Anderson and Jeff Canning all earned second-team All-PAC honors.

Championship Results

ERIE, Pa. (April 24) – Led by four second-place individual finishers, the Waynesburg University men's tennis team finished in second place at the 2010 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Men's Tennis Championships, which wrapped up on Saturday at the Pennbriar Athletic Club.

The Yellow Jackets recorded 28 team points, which placed them nine points ahead of third-place Washington & Jefferson, which scored 19 team points.

Three of the Jackets' four runner-up finishes came in the singles ranks. Leading the way was senior Jeff Canning, who placed second at second singles. He dropped a 6-0, 6-0 championship match to top-seeded Peter Davis of Grove City.

Junior Emile Khoury couldn't get past Grove City's Anthony Rosselli, but still picked up a second-place finish after falling 6-1, 6-3. The Jackets' Jon Anderson picked up a silver medal at sixth singles after falling 6-0, 6-0 to Grove City's Scott Yanak.

Anderson teamed up with another first-year Waynesburg player, Jason Logan, to compete for the number-three doubles title against Rosselli and Caleb Fuller. Unfortunately, Anderson and Logan couldn't overcome the Wolverine duo and fell in a hard-fought 8-6 match.

Grove City rolled to its 20^th-straight team title after scoring 50 team points. Washington & Jefferson senior Christopher Faulk was named 2010 PAC Player of the Year after winning the number-one singles title. Grove City's Joe Joe Walters was named 2010 PAC Coach of the Year.

Sport:

2.28.12 | 12:30 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Saint Vincent

3.17.12 | 12 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Westminster

3.27.12 | 3 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Frostburg State

3.30.12 | 4 p.m.

Men's Tennis vs Grove City

3.31.12 | 5 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Pitt-Greensburg

4.4.12 | 4 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Thiel

4.10.12 | 3:30 p.m.

Men's Tennis at Bethany

Athletes of the Week

Dan Bruni

Wrestling

Bruni went 3-0 during Waynesburg’s home quad-match against Penn State Greater Allegheny, Penn State Beaver and Penn State Fayette. The sophomore won two matches by major decision and scored a fall in just 31 seconds over Greater Allegheny’s Soham Salvi.

Jessi Drayer

Women's Basketball

Drayer poured in a team-high 21.0 points per game for the 1-1 Yellow Jackets this past week. She was the team’s leading scorer in both games, going for a game-high 23 points against Westminster, before pouring in a contest-best 19 points in a win over Geneva. The Waterford, Ohio native averaged 21 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game this week.

What are you most looking forward to in 2012 when it comes to Waynesburg sports?

Seeing how far the women's basketball team can go in the PAC tournament and beyond.
The wrestling team going for a third-straight PAC team title.
The Jacket softball team playing to get back into the PAC playoffs.
Waynesburg track taking another shot at an elusive PAC team title.
Just being outside when the weather turns warm.

Did You Know...

TV Football

Waynesburg played in the first televised football game. The Yellow Jackets faced Fordham on Sept. 20, 1939 in Randalls Island, N.Y.

The Three Musketeers

Dominick Hunter, Ivan Hawkins and Paul D'Imperio, who rank 1-2-3 in career receptions , all played together from 2002 to 2004.

Jackets own Nittany Lions

The Waynesburg football team is 2-0 all-time against Penn State. The last time they met was in 1932, when the Jackets won 7-6.

Going nowhere fast

Waynesburg held Westminster to minus-105 yards rushing in a game in 1967.

Headlee's All-American resume

Head wrestling coach Ron Headlee was a three-time NAIA All-American at Messiah College and the school's first NCAA All-American.

Don Herrman

Former Waynesburg football great Don Herrman played for the New York Giants and New Orleans Saints from 1969 to 1977.

Champions in the classroom

During the 2009-10 school year, no school in the conference boasted more honorees on the PAC Academic Honor Roll than Waynesburg.

Unbreakable record

In 2009, Scott Cree ran an interception back 100 yards for a touchdown, a record that can't be broken.

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