Tennis Heads to WCC Championships
4/21/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
April 21, 2005
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Gonzaga University men's and women's tennis teams will wrap up the season this weekend as they begin West Coast Conference Tournament action Friday morning. The men's team is competing at Pepperdine University while the women's team plays at the University of San Diego.
Junior Bryce Cooper and senior Dru Ernst lead the Gonzaga men's team (5-14), as Cooper is 5-4 at No. 1 singles spot and Ernst is 4-4 in the second position. The doubles team of Ernst and junior Arthur Reid are 2-0 in No. 1 play. The men capped regular-season play with three consecutive wins including a 6-1 victory over Eastern Washington University and a 7-0 win over Montana State University-Billings.
Gonzaga finished eighth place last season and placed as high as sixth overall in 1996.
The women are 8-13 overall this season and are led by senior Angela Fry and freshman Amanda Becker. Fry has posted a 6-6 dual match record while playing in the No. 1 spot for the Bulldogs and Becker is currently 6-7 in the second spot. Fry will team with senior Sirrah Williams as GU's No. 1 doubles pair.
The Gonzaga women's team finished the regular season winning two of their last three matches including a sweep of Eastern Washington, 7-0, and a 6-1 win over Lewis-Clark State College.
The Bulldogs finished in eighth place in the Women's WCC tournament last season with a program-best sixth place finish in 1996.
Matches for both the men's and women's WCC tournaments begin at 9 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning.
