PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Pilots men’s and women’s tennis teams head to the West Coast Conference Championships this weekend in San Diego, Calif., looking to improve on last year’s fourth and sixth place finishes, respectively.
Seeding and brackets for the 2010 WCC Tennis Championships will be released on Thursday. The event, which hosts all WCC men’s and women’s teams, is held at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, Calif. for the second straight year and will take place on April 23-25. The winner of the tournament will earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which will be hosted this year by the University of Georgia.
The Pilot men most recently swept Idaho State 7-0, to bring their regular season record to 9-8 overall and 1-0 against WCC foes. UP is led by the #73 nationally-ranked doubles duo of seniors Filip Zivkovic and Evan Schleining who has lost just two times in fifteen dual competitions this season.
Riding the momentum of a program first-ever victory over WCC opponent Loyola Marymount, the Pilot women enter the tournament with a 6-13 overall record and 1-4 in WCC action. Senior Megan Sporndli has a team leading 11-6 record in singles (3-1 WCC). The doubles team of Sporndli and junior Lacey Pflibsen are undefeated in WCC action (3-0) going into the tournament and sit at 7-6 overall.
All the action this weekend can be followed by visiting the WCC Tennis Championship Tournament Central page at www.wccsports.com.
