Renegades win top WSC tennis awards; BC swimmers host meet at Garces; High schools return; CSUB roundup
The Bakersfield College men’s and women’s tennis teams have competed in the Western State Conference Singles and Doubles tournament since Tuesday and will do so through Saturday at Ventura College. On Thursday, the WSC announced all-conference selections and individual awards, too. The BC men’s team, which captured the conference title last week, earned numerous all-WSC honors, including two of the top individual awards.
Mateusz Lipczynski was named the WSC Men’s Player of the Year. A freshman from Warsaw, Poland, Lipczynski has been the top singles player and a solid doubles player for this Renegades conference championship team. He came into the WSC Singles and Doubles Tournament as the No.
1 seed in singles play. He went into Friday’s tournament action playing in the semifinal round of singles and in doubles with his partner, Orlando Vankan. Noel Dalton, who has been BC tennis coach since 2018, was named WSC Men’s Coach of the Year.
Dalton played tennis at BC in 1983 and 1984. He and volunteer assistant coach Hank Pfister Jr. , a former pro tennis player and also a former Renegades player, directed BC to its first WSC team championship since BC joined the WSC in 1987.
Lipczynski and Dalton are the first BC recipients of these WSC honors since Adrian Bolton and then-head coach Rob Slaybaugh did it in the same year, 1996, following a second-place WSC team finish for the Renegades. Here’s the complete list of all BC men’s players and their conference honors: Singles: First team, Lipczynski and Axl Lajon Gonzaga; Second team: Shang En Kao and Vitalie Chibac. Doubles: First team, Gonzaga/Kao, Lipczynski/Vankan; Second team, Zeb Duket/Chin Chang Wu.
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