CLINTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian Blue Hose (9-9) hit the road for matches at the Elon Phoenix (10-5) and the Longwood Lancers (5-7). First, the Blue Hose play the Phoenix in Elon, N.C. on Sunday, March 26 at 1 p.m. Then, PC concludes their road trip with a Big South Conference match in Farmville, Va. against the Lancers on Monday, March 27 at 3 p.m.
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The Blue Hose has won seven of their last 10 matches.
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BIG SOUTH WEEKLY AWARD
This week,
David Mamalat was named Big South Freshman of the Week for the second time. He claimed his first Big South Freshman of the Week award on January 25. On March 8,Â
Javier Matos was named Big South Co-Player of the Week andÂ
Denim Yadav captured his second Big South Freshman of the Week award. Yadav collected his first Big South Freshman of the Week award on February 22. Â
Dusan Milanovic (January 18) andÂ
Max Benson (January 25) claimed the first two Big South Player of the Week awards handed out this season.
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NATIONAL RANKINGS
The doubles team of Benson and Milanovic is ranked No. 42 in the ITA doubles rankings. Milanovic is ranked No. 72 in the ITA singles rankings.
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SPRING SEASON RESULTS
This season in singles play, Milanovic has a 12-2 record at number one singles. Matos has won nine straight matches tying him with Milanovic for the team lead with 12 wins. Benson has tallied nine wins this spring.
Sebastian Dominguez and Yadav have collected six wins apiece.
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Presbyterian has captured the doubles point in ten of their last 13 matches. The doubles tandem of Dominguez and Matos leads the team with nine wins. The doubles duo of Benson and Milanovic has seven wins.
Teo Cariov has been a part of doubles teams that have tallied six wins this season.Â
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ELON
Elon won the last match between the two teams a 6-1 win at home on February 14, 2015.
The Phoenix have won five straight matches. Daniel Martin leads Elon with 11 wins all at number one singles. Oskar Antinheimo, Nicholas Campbell, and Veljko Krstic enter the match with 10 singles wins apiece.
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The doubles duo of Nicholas Condos and Ben Zipay have recorded a team-leading seven wins.
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LONGWOOD
Presbyterian has won the last nine matches against Longwood including a 7-0 win at home in their last meeting on April 2, 2022.
The Lancers have lost three straight matches. Timeo Puech and Yoav Weinberg leads Longwood with four singles wins apiece. Longwood has three doubles teams that have won four matches each.
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