Stanley Bernard King was born in 1939 in the Indian city of Dhamtari. Now, he is the head coach of the men’s tennis team at Goshen College. King spent the first five years of his life in India while his parents, who were U.S. citizens, were involved in education there. King first came to the United States when he was 5 years old on a U.S. troop ship. His family stayed in the U.S. for two years and then went back to India, where King attended boarding school through eighth grade at Kodaikanal. King enrolled at Goshen College in 1957,...

By Luis Pérez Lerchundi • March 12, 2015 • Sports

First year student Aritha Weerasinghe made his mark on the tennis team this year, sending his team to the semifinals where he played 3rd, 4th and 5th positions.  His passion for tennis is evident with his exclusive remarks about the sport. Born and raised in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, Weerasinghe attended Asian International School, a British system school that he graduated from a year ago. Shortly after graduation, he was recruited by the Goshen College tennis head coach, Stan King.   Weerasinghe had attended an all-boys school and was nervous about attending a co-ed institution. “The special thing at...

By Annie Agutu • January 15, 2015 • Features

The Goshen College Maple Leafs hosted their first match in Crossroads League tournament history on Tuesday night, where the Maple Leafs defeated Huntington 5-4 in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. The Maple Leafs had a good start with a 2-1 lead after the doubles matches. Balazs Pirot, a junior, and Jon Kaasa, a junior, played their second match of the season together at No. 1 doubles and beat the Foresters No.1 doubles 8-2. Aritha Weerasinghe, a first-year, and Michael Oyer, a senior, played together for the first time this season and they had a 8-6 win at No.3 doubles....

By Luis Pérez Lerchundi • October 1, 2014 • Sports

The Goshen College men’s tennis team saw its conference round robin conclude Tuesday afternoon in a 5-4 loss to Grace College on the Lancers’ home court. With the Crossroads League tournament right around the corner, the Maple Leafs lost their streak of five straight wins. The Maple Leafs took their first point at No. 3 doubles after coming back from a 4-0 down. Balazs Pirot, a junior, and Michael Oyer, a senior, won eight games in a row after a slow start. This match was their first time playing doubles together. In singles play, however, the Maple Leafs started with...

By Luis Pérez Lerchundi • September 24, 2014 • Sports

Goshen College’s tennis team was back on the courts the past Friday evening to play against Calumet College of Saint Joseph. The Maple Leafs beat the Crimson Waves 8-1, in a game where the Goshen College team took 11 of the 15 sets played. The men’s tennis team got a 3-0 lead after winning the first three doubles games. Balazs Pirot, a sophomore, and Luis Perez, a sophomore, won 8-3 at No. 1 doubles; Jon Kaasa, a sophomore, and Vasanth Palanisamy, a sophomore, beat 8-3 at No. 2, while Taylor Ermoian, a junior, and Caleb Harnish, a first-year, took the...

By Luis Pérez Lerchundi • April 17, 2014 • Sports

Balazs Pirot, a sophomore tennis player, was named to the men’s tennis All-Crossroads League team this past week. Pirot was one of only five unanimous selections for the 2013 team, as voted by the league’s coaches. The 12 man all-league team is selected every fall, following the conference season. “I kind of expected it, actually,” said Pirot. “My season was going really well. But I still felt happy [after hearing it]. I got to find out that all nine out of nine coaches voted for me. ” Pirot finished the season 18-3 in singles play, 8-5 in doubles. He finished...

By Jake Smucker • October 22, 2013 • Sports

The Goshen men’s tennis team lost to Marian in the first round of the Crossroads League Tournament on Tuesday. The Men traveled to Marian as the fifth seed in the Crossroads League Tournament while the Knights sat at number four. Despite playing in good form in recent weeks, the Maple Leafs were unable to avenge their early season loss to Marian. The Leafs closed out regular season play last week with a dominant 7-2 win over Crossroads League bottom-dweller Bethel College. That gave the Maple Leafs back-to-back wins to close out the season and pushtheir regular season record to 6-4...

By Record • October 6, 2013 • Sports

The Goshen College men’s tennis team had a rough outing against Spring Arbor on Tuesday afternoon. Playing on their home courts, the Maple Leafs fell 7-2. The Maple Leafs did have a bright spot in the day, as Thiago Amaral, a first-year, and Krishnan Ganesan, a junior, both won their singles matchups against the Cougars. Goshen mixes experienced players from last year’s team and many new faces. Stan King, head coach, said that “the newer kids are working well into the team. Our number two and three singles players are freshmen, and they are fitting into their roles well.” Goshen’s...

By Shane Miller • September 12, 2012 • Sports

The 2011 men’s tennis team nears its end with only two more regular season games before the conference tournament. The team’s record going into today’s match against Indiana Tech is 4-6, and 2-5 in conference. Over the weekend, Goshen played Saturday through Monday, winning against Bethel College 5-4, losing to St. Joseph’s College 3-6, and defeating visiting Defiance College 7-2. “Since the Marian match, we made a lot of line-up changes in our doubles by switching partners, and also some changes in the singles line-up which have helped us improve,” said junior Daniel Buschert. “Now that we’ve actually settled into...

By Kaeli Evans • September 28, 2011 • Sports

Goshen College’s men’s tennis team takes on non-conference opponent Cornerstone University today at 4 p.m. The visiting first-year team comes into the match with a 1-3 record as they begin the university’s first tennis season. On Tuesday, visiting conference team, Grace College defeated the Leafs to drop their record to 1-5. Junior Csaba Laszlo, the lone victor for the Leafs, advanced his conference record to .500 for this season. The Leafs will be back in action on Sept. 24 as they travel to Bethel College for another conference match.

By Kaeli Evans • September 21, 2011 • Sports

This past week saw the Goshen Men’s Tennis team play matches against both Anderson University and conference foe Marion University. While the Leafs were able to defeat Anderson 6-3 this past Saturday, they couldn’t repeat their winning ways, falling Tuesday to Marion by the same score of 6-3. The Anderson match began with a strong showing from doubles play as for the third time this season, and second time in a row, the Leafs won all three doubles matches. At No. 1 doubles, junior Benjamin Basnet and sophomore Csaba Laszlo were able to come from behind for a 9-8 (6)...

By Paul Versluis • September 29, 2010 • Sports

The Maple Leafs’ 2009 men’s and women’s tennis season ended this past week with the Mid-Central Conference (MCC) Tournament at Indiana Wesleyan University. The tournament was played indoors due to weather. The women had a particularly rough tournament schedule, never facing a seed lower than #2, facing some of the top players from around the MCC. Hannah Groff, the only senior on the roster, played her final collegiate match at the MCC Tournament. Groff fell in both her singles and doubles matches, facing #1 seeds in both matches. The Leafs did not manage to win any of their quarterfinal matches...

By Micah Kulp • October 14, 2009 • Sports

The Goshen College men’s tennis team gave head coach Stan King another first on Saturday.  For the first time in his 11 years as head coach, the men’s tennis team was able to pull off a win over Bethel College in a closely contested match. The Maple Leafs started the day slowly with Alejandro Davalos and Chanuk Algama losing the No. 3 and No. 4 singles matches, respectively.  However, the Leafs responded with seniors Aaron Sutter and Joel King dominating in the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches, which tied the overall team score at 2-2.  Sophomore Benjamin Basnet...

By Micah Kulp • September 23, 2009 • Sports

Tuesday saw the Maple Leafs Men’s Tennis team host Mid-Central College Conference opponent Grace College just three days after hosting Grace at the Goshen Invitational on Saturday. In what was destined to be a close match, the Maple Leafs battled hard against the Lancers, but fell in the end 5-4. The match came down to the last two singles matches, featuring junior Chanuk Algama and freshman Daniel Buschert. While both Algama and Buschert dropped their first sets, they both looked confident in the second sets of their respective matches. Algama easily won his second set 6-1, and then won the...

By Micah Kulp • September 16, 2009 • Sports

After eight years committed to the Goshen College women’s tennis team, Sarah Yoder has turned in her resignation. Yoder played four years of collegiate tennis but most recently served four years as head coach of the women’s tennis team. “Over the past year I have been back in school working on a secondary social studies teaching license,” Yoder said. “Next fall I will be ready for student teaching and I knew I wouldn’t be able to coach any longer. We have too many matches during the week that require leaving midday.” Though she leaves behind what she refers to as...

By Brandon Long • January 29, 2009 • Sports