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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – No. 1 seed and host Ouachita Baptist defeated No. 2 seed East Central by a final score of 5-1 on Saturday to capture the inaugural Great American Conference Men’s Tennis Championship Tournament title.

After going 2-1 in doubles play, OBU’s Helge Knuth, Marko Boskovic and Ramon Abaitua all recorded singles victories to give OBU the conference’s tournament championship. The Tigers also captured the league’s inaugural regular season title going 3-0 during conference matches in the regular season. OBU is 14-6 overall this season after its win over ECU in the GAC tournament finals. ECU finishes the year 8-7 overall.

OUACHITA BAPTIST 5, EAST CENTRAL 1
DOUBLES
#1 Doyle Springett/Stefan Stein (ECU) d. Helge Knuth/Marvin Muller (OBU) 8-5
#2 Kenny Brasil/Ernesto Laborda (OBU) d. Julian Caminos/Victor Blasco (ECU) 8-6
#3 Ramon Abatua/Marko Boskovic (OBU) d. Marc Fillat/Carlos Muro (ECU) 8-4
SINGLES
#1 Helge Knuth (OBU) d. Stefan Stein (ECU) 6-2, 6-2
#2 Marko Boskovic (OBU) d. Carlos Muro (ECU) 6-1, 6-3
#3 Kenny Brasil (OBU) vs. Julian Caminos (ECU) dnf
#4 Marvin Muller (OBU) vs. Marc Fillat (ECU) dnf
#5 Ramon Abaitua (OBU) d. Victor Blasco (ECU) 6-1, 6-4
#6 Teodor Anghel (OBU) vs. Doyle Springett (ECU) dnf