Cerenko, of Atlanta, received 37 votes to place him on the 2009 Men's All-SCAC Tennis Team. For the season, Cerenko posted an 8-5 record in singles matches to go along with a 10-5 record in doubles contests. With the 37 votes Cerenko finished in 7th place amongst voters for the SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors.

 

Mann, of Herdon, Virginia, received 13 votes to be placed on the All-SCAC Honorable Mention list. For the season, Mann posted a 12-4 record in singles matches and an 8-5 record in doubles competition to earn the Honorable Mention distinction.

As voted on by their teammates, here are the awards that were handed out:
 
Men's Team:
Most Valuable Player: Bryan Bailey from Hebron, Kentucky.
Most Improved: Joey Kosciolek of Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Stormiest Petrel: Lawrence Sweatman of Memphis, Tennessee.
 
Women's Team:
Most Valuable Player: Molly Colvard of Chickamauga, Georgia.
Most Improved: Kayla Atkins of Acworth, Georgia.
Stormiest Petrel: Sarah Duff of Braselton, Georgia.
 

Mann, from Herdon, Virginia, won both his #2 singles matches over the weekend to earn his slot on the All-Tournament Team. On Friday, Mann knocked off Jay Hill of Sewanee 6-2, 6-2 and on Sunday he took care of Colorado College's Nathaniel Burt 6-3, 6-2. Mann also defeated Barrett Freeman 6-0, 6-2 of Centre College on Saturday playing from the #1 singles postition.
 
Bailey, from Hebron, Kentucky, defeated Sewanee's Henry Litchfield 6-1, 6-4 on Friday and then knocked off Colorado College's Brian Thirkell 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to earn his slot on the All-Tournament Team playing from the #3 singles position. Bailey also defeated Centre's Brenton Deal 6-2, 6-2 from the #2 singles slot to complete a perfect weekend.

Each of the four teams above Oglethorpe in the conference standings are ranked regionally. The Petrels, finishing at 11-4 on the season, are currently the No. 14 ranked team in the Atlantic South Region.
 
Freshman Bryan Bailey clinched the match for Oglethorpe out of the #3 singles slot after the Petrels swept the doubles matches away from the Tigers.

The men opened with a razor thin defeat to Sewanee by the score of 6-3 that was not indicative of exactly how close this match was. The Petrels bounced back, however, to knock off Centre, 8-1 setting up a showdown for 5th place with the winner of Colorado College and Southwestern. The 5th place match will be held at 12:30 p.m. eastern on Sunday.
 
The women were topped by Colorado College in their opening match but recovered to sweep Millsaps in their second match. The Lady Netters are set to face Austin at 4:00 p.m. today with a chance to grab 9th place in the always tough SCAC.

Seniors Gabe Henderson, Carlos Carthen, Ricky Pomales and Luca Cerenko ended their careers in style with the sweep over the Lions. Henderson, Carthen and Pomales each went 2-0 on the afternoon with wins in both the doubles and singles matches. Cerenko combined with Carthen to win a doubles match and Pomales clinched for Oglethorpe playing from the #5 singles slot.
 
Oglethorpe will enter the SCAC Tournament as the 5th seed and will face fourth seeded Sewanee on Friday at 8:00 a.m.

At 6-2 on the spring season, the netters only losses have come at the hands of the regions No.'s 1 and 10 ranked teams (Emory and Sewanee, respectively). Moving forward, Oglethorpe has scheduled matches with region No. 6 North Carolina Wesleyan on April 11, region No. 11 Rhodes on April 19 and region No. 13 Birmingham-Southern on April 9.
 
The netters will look to notch their seventh victory of the season when they square off with Principia on Howell Courts at 10:00 a.m. on March 28.

On Friday, the 16th ranked in the region Petrels swept the doubles action over Southwestern before cruising to a 7-2 victory. Senior captain Gabe Hendreson clinched the match with a 6-1, 6-1 win playing from the #6 singles slot.
 
On Saturday, Oglethorpe claimed their fifth straight win of the season over Centre by again sweeping the doubles matches before taking five of six singles matches and winning easily, 8-1. Sophomore Lawrence Sweatman clinched the match for the Petrels with a convincing 6-0, 6-0 win out of the #6 singles slot.
 
Later on saturday, the Petrels were narrowly bested by the home standing Sewanee Tigers, 5-4 to snap Oglethorpe's winning streak. After getting swept in the doubles matches (including one in a tiebreaker), the Petrels stormed back to win four of six singles matches and nearly claimed the come-from-behind win.
 
Despite the loss, #16 Oglethorpe is now 5-2 on the season with three games upcoming this week on Howell Courts. The Petrels play versus LaGrange today at 3:00 p.m., versus #8 Birmingham-Southern on Friday at 2:30 p.m. and versus #15 Mississippi College on Saturday at 10:00 a.m.

Senior Ricky Pomales clinched the match for Oglethorpe with a 7-6, 6-1 win over Reinhardt's Nahum Vigo Fas.
 
With the win, Oglethorpe is now 3-1 on the young season and will get set to face Piedmont College this Friday 3:00 p.m. at home.

The women's team opened their season by sweeping the doubles portion of their match with Millsaps. It marked the first time in seven years that the women swept a copnference opponent in doubles matches. Freshman Jayme Danielson clinched the match for the women in a come from behind (6-7, 6-1, 6-2) win.

After splitting their doubles matches 2-1 against the Majors, the men put Millsaps away on the singles courts with Luka Cerenko clinching the match with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory.
 
Both teams are back in action this Saturday when they square off with Reinhardt on their home courts at 2:00 p.m.

Oglethorpe used a varied line-up against the top flight Emory Eagle squad on Saturday in order to keep the team fresh for their clash with Greensboro College on Sunday morning. The strategy paid off as the Petrels handled Greensboro in style.
 
Luka Cerenko's 6-1, 6-7, 6-2 victory over stout opponent David Sutton highlighted the win over Greensboro College. Felix Mann clinched the match for Oglethorpe playing from the #2 singles position.
 
The Petrels are now 1-1 on the spring season and will be back in action on their home court this Sunday when both the men's and women's squads face off with Millsaps College.

The men have been boosted by the outstanding play of senior Luka Cerenko who checks in as the 15th ranked singles player for the Atlantic South Region.
 
Oglethorpe is joined in the rankings by conference members Sewanee (10th), Rhodes (11th) and Birmingham-Southern (12th).

Cerenko advanced to the quarterfinals after he defeated NC Wesleyan Alexey Rumeyantsev 6-2,6-3 and then Xavier Ruiz of Averet 6-1,6-3. In the 16’s he defeated Jonas Schwartz of Emory 7-6,6-0. (Schwartz had defeated #8 seed Charles Boyd of Sewanee) 7-6,6-0. In the Quarter Finals he played #2 seed  Mark Boren of Emory who won the event last year.
 
Luka started a bit nervous and Boren was a machine and let the firat set go 6-0 after being down double break at 4-0. He regroup the second set and played very tough, patient , excellent tennis. He was broken at 5 all, but broke back to force a tiebreaker with a solid well  played game. Unfortunately, a few unforced errors together with some sterling play from Boren were too much and he lost 7-3 in the breaker. Luka was the only non Emory player in the quarterfinals and got futher than any other player in the SCAC Conference.

Sophomore Felix Mann had a great win in defeating #3 seed Chas Dunn of Mississippi College. Felix lost the first set 4-6 but rallied to win the second 6-4. The third set was a war with Felix coming out on top 6-4. This avenged his loss to Dunn 6-2,6-0 in this tournament last year. The 2 ½ Hr. win was costly as Felix cramped up in his second match and had to retire vs. Chris Jordan of Emory in the second set.

Junior transfer Scott McRee had a good win over Centre’s #1 Ben Newstadt 6-3,6-7,6-1. He then played ok but lost to #4 seed Chris Goodwin of Emory 6-3,6-3. Fr Bryan Bailey also won his first round match defeating Sewanee’s Michael House 6-1,6-1. Unfortunately, he then played #1 seed Michael Goodwin of Emory losing 6-3,6-1.

Other notables were sophomore Ross Beall & Scott McRee winning the doubles consolation beating teams from Mississippi College, Millsaps and Rhodes. Sophomore Lawrence Sweatman got to the semi finals of the consolation in the “B” draw and he teamed with Ricky Pomales to get to the semi finals of the “B” draw double. They came back from a 2-7 deficit to beat Methodist 9-7.

  
 

Cerenko, a junior from Atlanta, received 49 votes from coaches around the conference to finish 6th place overall in the voting and secure his spot on the All-SCAC Tennis Team. Cerenko is coming off a dominating season that saw him win 12 of 14 singles matches and post a 9-7 record in doubles matches with multiple partners.
 
Mann, a freshman from Herndon, Virginia, received 14 overall votes to secure the top spot among the Honorable Mentions named for the 2008 All-SCAC Tennis Team. Felix was only 3 votes short of obtaining a spot on the 10-man team outright. This season, Mann posted a stellar 13-5 record in singles matches and an equally outstanding 12-5 record in doubles competitions.