Schober wins a match in Division III tourney

Avery Schober ended his distinguished Sewanee tennis career as an All-American by winning a match Thursday in the NCAA Division III Championships at Chattanooga’s Champions Club. Then he nearly won another, which would have put him in the individual singles quarterfinals today.

And junior Clementina Davila from the Sewanee women’s team went out with a hardfought 7-6, 7-6 loss to Kenyon’s Diana Aboubakare. It was the longest women’s match of the day, despite four others going three sets.

Schober, a two-time Southern Athletic Association player of the year and now a threetime All-American, beat Johnny Wu from Washington University in St. Louis 6-0, 7-5 in the round of 32. Then the senior from Dallas got a 3-0 lead on Claremont-Mudd-Scripps’ Nikolai Parodi, the third seed, but lost 6-4, 7-5.

Aboubakare lost to CMS’s Catherine Allen in the round of 16, when 2016 runner-up Juli Raventos from Williams — which won the women’s team championship — lost a three-setter as the sixth seed against Victoria Yu of Wesleyan (Conn.).

Top five seeds Eudice Chong of Wesleyan, Rebecca Ho of Washington, Caroline Casper of Pomona-Pitzer, Bridget Harding of Emory and Brooke Donnelly of Washington & Lee all advanced, as did Harding’s Emory teammate, Michelle Satterfield.

Besides Parodi, the men’s singles quarterfinalists include only No. 1 seed Lubomir Cuba of Middlebury and No. 5 Branden Metzler of Kalamazoo among the seeded players. The others are Erik Kerrigan and Nicolas Chua of Chicago, Grant Urken of Bowdoin, Jeremy Dubin of Johns Hopkins and Daniel Morkovine of CMS.

The women’s singles quarterfinals start at 9 this morning, the men’s at 10:30, with semifinals set for 1 and 2:30 p.m. at the complex in Rivermont. Doubles quarterfinals are scheduled for 3 and 4:30.

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