The Southern Conference tennis tournaments will be held this weekend at the Champions Club, and the seventh-seeded UTC men’s team will face second seed Samford at 10:30 a.m. Friday, while Furman faces UNC Greensboro. Top-seeded East Tennessee State takes on The Citadel and Mercer meets Wofford in 8:30 a.m. matches.
The Mocs finished the regular season 7-14 overall, 1-6 in SoCon matches. Samford is 12-4 and 6-1, compared to 15-5 and 7-0 for ETSU.
The third-seeded UTC women (14-7, 5-2) will face sixth seed UNCG (8-12, 2-5) at 3 p.m. Friday. No. 2 ETSU (16-2, 6-1) and Mercer (9-13, 1-6) also will square off at 3, after top-seeded Furman (14-8, 7-0) takes on Western Carolina (12-10, 0-7) and Samford (10-11, 4-3) meets Wofford (11-8, 3-4) at 1.
The men’s semifinals are set for 10 a.m. and the women’s semis for 2 p.m. Saturday with the championship matches Sunday at 1.
Polk honored
UTC’s Katie Polk was the SoCon women’s tennis player of the week after going 2-0 in singles and 2-0 at No. 2 doubles with Samantha Caswell in the final week of the regular season.
Polk is 14-1 in singles this semester, 6-1 in league play. She and Caswell were 10-5 together in the regular season.