Blackstone Named Enterprise RENT-A-CAR & AMCC Tennis Athlete of the Week
Elliot
Blackstone (Wexford/Pine-Richland) has been named the Enterprise RENT-A-CAR
and the AMCC men's tennis
athlete of the week for the week of April 20, 2009.
Blackstone led the Behrend Lions to his second championship in as many years. Blackstone did not lose a set in AMCC play all year and continued his dominance in the conference championship.
Blackstone captured the 2009 number one singles championship by a 6-3, 6-2 score over the number two seeded Greg Shedd. This is the second conference championship that Blackstone has won. Last year he won the number two singles championship.
Blackstone teamed up with Jon Henderson (Upper St. Clair/Upper St. Clair) to win the number one doubles. They defeated the number one seeded team from Frostburg 8-3.
Behrend was followed by Penn State Altoona and Frostburg State with 16 points apiece. Altoona was named runner up based on tiebreak criteria (most team points in conference matches in regular season). Pitt-Bradford and Pitt-Greensburg rounded out the field with eight and one team points respectively.
The Behrend Lions finished the year with a perfect conference record going 8-0 and won 12 of 19 matches overall.