Wingate Wins SAC Regular Season Title, Seeds Set for 2023 Men's Tennis Championship

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) –Wingate capped of the 2023 regular season with a perfect 12-0 South Atlantic Conference record and earned the SAC Men's Tennis Regular Season Title. This is the tenth regular season title for the Bulldogs in the last 14 years.  They will enter next week's SAC Men's Tennis Championship as the No. 1 seed. 

Tusculum finished the year at 11-1 in conference play to earn the No. 2 seed in next week's championship and Carson-Newman slides into the No. 3 spot with a 10-2 SAC record. Anderson will be the No. 4 seed after finishing the regular season with a 9-3 record and Limestone will be the No. 5 seed with an 8-4 record.

Lincoln Memorial will be the No. 6 seed after closing out the season with a 7-5 record in SAC play, while Lenoir-Rhyne is the No. 7 seed with a record of 6-6 in conference. Newberry rounded out the field of eight for the championship as the No. 8 seed with a 5-7 record.

The 2023 South Atlantic Conference Men's Tennis Championship will be played at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, S.C. beginning with quarterfinals on Thursday (April 20), followed by semifinals on Friday (April 21) and finals on Saturday (April 22). The Conference Championship schedule is as follows:

Thursday, April 20 (at Palmetto Tennis Center)

Match 1: #8 Newberry vs. #1 Wingate, 2:00 p.m.
Match 2: #5 Limestone vs. #4 Anderson, 2:00 p.m.
Match 3: #7 Lenoir-Rhyne vs. #2 Tusculum, 2:00 p.m.
Match 4: #6 Lincoln Memorial vs. #3 Carson-Newman, 2:00 p.m. 

Friday, April 21 (at Palmetto Tennis Center)

Match 5: Winner Match 1 vs. Winner Match 2, 1:00 p.m.
Match 6: Winner Match 3 vs. Winner Match 4, 1:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 22 (at Palmetto Tennis Center)

Match 7: Winner Match 5 vs. Winner Match 6, 1:00 p.m.

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