For the third season in a row, the Goshen College men’s tennis team has advanced to the Crossroads League semifinals. The fourth-seeded Maple Leafs won their quarterfinal matchup this past Tuesday against Huntington University, at the Goshen College Tennis Complex. Goshen defeated the Foresters 5-2, the same scoreline they achieved when the two teams met two weeks ago during the regular season. All four higher seeds won Tuesday in the first round of postseason play. Goshen’s top three seeds all won their matchups to give the Maple Leafs points on the board. Filippo Bigardi, a senior, won his No.1 seed...

By Megan Bower • October 2, 2019 • Sports

Maple Leaf men’s and women’s tennis were back in action this week as they took on conference opponent Huntington University this past Tuesday. The men walked off the court with a 5-2 win over the Foresters, while the women fell 7-0. The men’s singles started off with success for the Maple Leafs. Filippo Bigardi, a senior, won his first set 7-5, and the second 6-3 to get GC on the board.  Senior, Juan Miguel Ciudad was up next. He lost his first set 3-6, but came back in the second to win 6-3. Huntington’s Rodrigo Manzo took the third set...

By Gabe Kermode • September 21, 2019 • Sports

Men’s and Women’s tennis both fell in their home opener against Grace College this past Saturday. The men’s team lost 6-1 and the women lost 7-0. Senior Filippo Bigardi began the men’s singles by winning the first set 6-4, but Grace’s Maximilliano Rozas battled back to win the next two 6-3 and 6-1. Senior Juan Migel Ciudad was close to putting the Maple Leafs on the board as he stepped onto the court. He narrowly missed out on the first set as he lost it to a tiebreaker 7-6(5). Ciudad then looked to take the second set but fell short...

By Record • September 5, 2019 • Sports

The Goshen College men’s tennis team has advanced to the semifinals of the Crossroads League tournament after beating Grace College 6-3 this past Tuesday. Josh Friesen and Luke Rush gave Goshen an early 1-0 lead by winning their doubles match 8-4. But the Lancers responded by leveling the score to 1-1 with an 8-3 win. Martim Cafe and Danny Boussom stepped onto the court and were able to regain the lead with an 8-3 win of their own. After Goshen took the lead in the doubles contest, the focus shifted to the single contests. Friesen, Evan Beck and Kartikeya Sharma...

By Megan Bower • October 3, 2018 • Sports

Goshen College men’s tennis team traveled to Indiana Wesleyan for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Midwest Regional Tournament this past week. Students Danny Boussom and Martim Cafe paved the way to the doubles final. The duo defeated opponents from Taylor, Lawrence Tech, IU East, and Northwestern before losing 8-6 loss in the final to IWU. “It was a razor thin margin of defeat,” said Evan Atkinson, tennis director. The other Goshen doubles team, Josh Friesen and Kartikeya Sharma, won their first match against Northwestern Ohio with a final score 8-3. However, Friesen and Sharma faced the same team from Indiana Wesleyan...

By Kadie Daye • September 18, 2018 • Sports

The Goshen College men and women’s tennis teams traveled to Marian University on Tuesday, Sept. 11 with neither team victoriously returning to campus. Although the Lady Knights swept the Goshen College women’s tennis team 9-0, senior Chloe Woodward kept the match competitive. Her first set against Mary Mullaney scored 2-6 before the second set secured the win for Mullaney at 6-0. Woodward also paired with Victoria Oakes to secure two games at No. 1 doubles, with a final match score of 8-2. As for the men’s tennis team, they faced arguably their toughest conference opponent yet, with the Marian University...

By Kadie Daye • September 13, 2018 • Sports

The Goshen College men’s tennis team jumped their record over .500 this past Saturday with a narrow 5-4 win over Taylor University while the women fell to the Trojans 9-0 at the Goshen College Tennis Complex. The Leaf men (5-4, 4-3 CL) were forced to start from behind early as they dropped two of their three doubles matches heading into the singles portion of the afternoon. Tennis Director Evan Atkinson commented on the slow start. “We make the wrong choices far too often and it costs us each match. It’s challenging to come from behind in these matches and puts...

By Spencer Buttermore • September 28, 2017 • Sports

Both Goshen men’s and women’s tennis teams fell shy of Marian University this past Saturday at the Goshen College complex. Juan Miguel Ciudad, sophomore, earned victories in both singles and doubles play for the men but the Goshen College men’s tennis team fell to Marian University 5-4.  The Knights have now beaten Goshen in every match since 2008, but Goshen this time came up two games shy of erasing that streak. Goshen (5-3, 4-2 CL) started out on top 2-1 after doubles play with Ciudad and Kartikeya Sharma, a junior, winning 9-7 at no. 1 and Lukas Kanther and Luke...

By Brad Stoltzfus • September 14, 2017 • Sports

A premature run for a perfect season in the Crossroads League (CL) ended abruptly for the Goshen College Men’s Tennis Team Tuesday evening at the Goshen College Tennis Complex. A Juan Miguel Ciudad, sophomore, victory at no. 2 singles was the lone GC bright spot amidst an 8-1 defeat to now CL co-leaders, Indiana Wesleyan University. With the loss, the Maple Leafs (2-1, 2-1 CL) have relinquished their four-way tie atop the CL and bumped to second place in the early season standings. The win for IWU (3-0, 3-0 CL) clinched the Wildcats a two-way tie with Spring Arbor University...

By Chandler Ingle • September 7, 2017 • Sports

The Goshen College tennis teams wrapped up their regular seasons this past Saturday. Competing against Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, Goshen’s women fell 9-0, while the men were edged 5-4 by the hosting Trojans. The women’s team looked to play their way into the conference tournament with a win, but weren’t able to find their footing against the conference’s fourth-ranked team. Seniors Noemi Salvador, Chelsea Katchmazenski and Joelle Friesen, sophomores Kendra Lozano and Chloe Woodward and first-year Megan Ewing all fell in straight sets in singles play. The doubles teams were defeated 8-1. The singles scores were 6-2, 6-0; 6-0,...

By Seth Wesman • September 29, 2016 • Sports

Tuesday’s Crossroads League tennis matches at Spring Arbor University’s Jones Tennis Complex belonged to the SAU men and women, as the Goshen College women went down in a 9-0 sweep, while the men gave the Cougars a scare in a close 5-4 match. The Maple Leafs got strong plays from Kendra Lozano and Chloe Woodward, both sophomores, at no. 2 doubles. Lozano and Woodward stayed competitive throughout, but were overmatched late, eventually falling in an 8-6 loss. In singles action, Noemi Salvador, a senior, claimed three games in both sets at the no. 1 position finishing in a 6-3, 6-3...

By Chandler Ingle • September 22, 2016 • Sports

Evan Atkinson, an Elkhart County native who served most recently as head tennis coach at Northridge High School, has been named director of tennis at Goshen College, the GC athletic department announced Friday. Atkinson is a 2004 graduate of NorthWood High School in Nappanee and a 2008 alumnus of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. He has coached at Northridge since the fall of 2009 and spent seven years as the head tennis professional at Eastlake Athletic Club in Goshen. “We are thrilled that Evan will be joining our team,” said Josh Gleason, Goshen College athletic director. “He has a great...

By Sports Information Department • March 10, 2016 • News

The winningest season for a Goshen College men’s tennis team came to an end this past Saturday in Indianapolis as the Leafs fell to Marion in five sets at the Crossroads League championship. To begin the match, Marian won all three doubles matches, meaning that Goshen would have to win five of the six singles matches to take the title.  Unfortunately, this was not the case. The Leafs will have to wait for their first Crossroads League title since 1995. The Knights won the first two singles matches, the 1s and 2s match-ups, and claimed the crown in a 5-0...

By Michael Walker • October 15, 2015 • Sports

The men’s tennis team has enjoyed significant success this year. Their record sits at an impressive 6-1, 5-1 in Crossroads League play, and the team sits just a game out of first place in the conference standings. Additionally, head coach Stan King earned his 100th career win on Tuesday. King has managed to put together a very successful and diverse roster this year. Of the 13 student-athletes on the tennis team, eight are international students from six countries. Balazs Pirot, a senior from Hungary, says that this can be an asset or a hindrance. “Diversity could be a friend or...

By Michael Walker • September 24, 2015 • Sports

The tennis team will open the spring season on Tuesday, April 7th by facing Indiana Tech University at 4pm at the Goshen College Tennis Complex. This will be the only spring game for the Maple Leafs. The tennis team had two games scheduled for the spring but the first one against Rochester College got cancelled due to the injuries of the team from Michigan. Indiana Tech is now playing its main season and they have a 5-1 record. While Goshen’s team completed their fall season with an overall 8-7 record while maintaining a record of 5-3 in the crossroads conference....

By Luis Pérez Lerchundi • April 2, 2015 • Sports