Penn State Behrend Men's Tennis Wins Back-to-Back AMCC Championship

The Behrend Lions won the 2009 AMCC Men's Tennis Championships over the weekend.  This marked the second year in a row and fourth time in eleven years that the blue and white have taken home the Championship. 

Elliot Blackstone (Wexford/Pine-Richland) led the Behrend Lions to the championship by taking first in number one singles over Frostburg State's Greg Shedd.  This is the second year that Blackstone has won an AMCC singles championship.  A year ago Blackstone took the number two singles.  Shane Mosier (Kersey/St. Marys) went home with the number three singles to add to Behrend's 22 team points.  James Getty (Erie/Harborcreek) rounded out the singles champions as he took number five singles.

The blue and white captured two of the three doubles championships.  Blackstone teamed with Jon Henderson (Upper St. Clair/Upper St. Clair) in number one doubles winning 8-3.  Kelly Manning (Sharpsville/Kennedy Catholic) and John Michalko (Washington/McGuffey) teamed up in number three doubles to prevail over the team from Frostburg State. 

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.