TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Six members of the Rose-Hulman regular season Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship men's tennis team received all-league recognition, in results released by the conference office.
Seniors David
Becerra (Brownsburg/Covenant Christian) (at
right) and Alex Gumz (Palatine, Ill./William
Fremd) (next photo below) joined sophomore
Ben Paras (Tucson, Ariz./Nordhoff) (last photo
below) on the first-team all-conference squad.
Honorable mention all-conference award winners included senior Dallas Burton (Haughton, La./Louisiana Math and Science), sophomore Devon Fritz (Lakeside, Calif./West Hills) and senior Seth Hendrickson (Crawfordsville).
Becerra finished 11-10 as the team No. 2 singles
player and was 12-9 at No. 2 doubles for the Engineers this
season. He finished with 65 career victories at Rose-Hulman,
including 33 doubles wins and 32 in singles play.
Gumz compiled an 8-7 record as the team's No. 3 singles player and finished 11-5 overall in doubles play. He earned honorable mention all-league recognition last season and finished with a 35-35 career singles mark and a 30-31 doubles record.
Paras finished with six wins as the team's No. 1
singles player for the second consecutive year. He also
teamed with Dallas Burton for five victories at the No. 1 doubles
position.
Burton completed his career with a 29-26 doubles record and an 11-4 singles mark at Rose-Hulman. He recorded 40 total victories as an Engineer and won six doubles and three singles matches in 2011.
Fritz compiled a 13-6 record at primarily No. 4 singles in his first season in the varsity lineup. He also combined for a 14-7 record in doubles play, including an 11-3 mark with Gumz at the No. 3 spot.
Hendrickson recorded the second most singles victories in school history with 54 career wins against just 26 losses. He also tallied 31 doubles wins at Rose-Hulman to rank sixth in school history with 85 wins. His efforts included a 16-5 record in singles play and a 12-9 doubles mark this season.
Rose-Hulman won its first regular season conference championship in the sport of men's tennis this spring and compiled its 14th consecutive season at .500 or above.