SMC Men's Tennis Results vs The Citadel

The SMC Men's Tennis Team traveled to Clemson University on Saturday, February 4 for a dual match versus The Citadel. The Citadel, The Military College of SC, commonly referred to simply as The Citadel, is a state supported, comprehensive college located in Charleston, SC. Established in1842, it is 1of 6 Senior Military Colleges in the United States.

The match featured SMC's head coach, Darren Patlen, pitted against his former mentor and head coach at Clemson University Charles (Chuck) P. Kriese. Darren Patlen was a member of Kriese's Clemson teams from 1983-1988. He redshirted in 1986. During those years, Patlen was a member of 4 undefeated ACC Championship teams.

Chuck Kriese is the winningest coach in ACC history with 685 wins. From 1975-2008 he led the Tigers to 10 ACC titles, 7 births in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Championships, and produced 38 All-Americans. His accomplishments at Clemson earned him 4 National Coach of the Year honors.

On the court, The Citadel defeated SMC by a final score of 7-2. The #1 doubles team of Hufelder (Jr.) Duarte, (johns Island, SC) and Austin Green, (Moore, SC), defeated The Citadels #1 team of Matthew Henson (Bristol, Tennessee), and Roy Hobson (Johannesburg, South Africa), by an 8-4 margin.
In singles, Hufelder (Jr.) Duarte continued his stellar play with a well earned 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory at #1 singles, over The Citadels Mike Anazalone(Queens, New York). The well played match lasted over 2.5 hours and was tied at 4-4 in the final set.

Coach Patlen' thoughts: Congratulations to The Citadel on their victory today. Their team has a lot of character and showed us great sportsmanship. It was great to be back on my home courts, on the stadium at Clemson. I spent hundreds of hours and hit thousands of balls on those courts. I want to thank Clemson Head Coach John Boescth, coach Chuck McCuen, and Coach Kriese for granting us the opportunity to play on Clemsons stadium courts. It was a very exciting day for our team.

I would like to praise Hufelder(Jr.) and Austin for a tremendous job in doubles. They played to a very high standard. Also, I would like to commend Hufelder on a great 3rd set victory. This was his second tough match of the day and he showed great tenacity!


                  The Citadel 7.           SMC 2
Doubles
#1 Duarte/Green SMC def. Henson/Hobson The Citadel 8-4
#2 Anzalone/Stolar The Citadel def. Brown/Gault SMC.   8-0
#3 Grady/Naowabi The Citadel def. Stacy/ Hernandez.    8-1

Singles
#1 Hufelder Duarte SMC def. Mike Anzalone The Citadel 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
#2 Matt Henson The Citadel def. Austin Green SMC         6-2, 6-2
#3 Noah Naowabi The Citadel def. Cody Brown SMC.       6-0, 6-0
#4 Jack Pyrite The Citadel def. Jacob Gault SMC.             6-0, 6-0
#5 Trey Daris The Citadel def. Daniel Stacy SMC.               6-0, 6-0
#6 Roy Hobson The Citadel def. Clayton Hernandez SMC  6-0, 6-0