CLEVELAND, Ohio – Allegheny men's tennis rookie Patrick Cole was named the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Men's Tennis Player of the Week for the week ending March 27, 2011 as it was announced by the conference's sports information director Bret Billhardt on Monday afternoon.
Only in the second year that the conference has recognized a tennis player of the week, Cole is the first Allegheny tennis player, male or female, to receive the honor. Since stepping foot on campus, Cole has made an immediate impact on the men's tennis program, competing in flight one singles and doubles in all matches so far this spring .
This past week, Cole helped fuel the Gators to a 3-1 record over their spring break trip to Hilton Head Island, S.C. with three singles and doubles victories each. In his three singles wins at flight one, Cole won in straight sets. The only loss for Cole in both singles and doubles over the week came against the ITA Central Region-Ranked no. 11 Carleton College.
In his singles match against Carleton' no. 1 Peter Dunn (regionally-ranked no. 13 singles player), Cole nearly pulled the upset after dropping the first set 3-6, then forcing a 10-point super-breaker set by blanking Dunn in the second set 6-0, but fell short in the super-breaker 11-13. In doubles action against Carleton, Cole and his partner Jacob Allmaras forced a tie-breaking set after pushing the no.17 regionally-ranked doubles combo of Dan Vollman and Paul Cooper to the brink.
