Sunday, September 23, 2001

Johnson City, Tenn.-- The ETSU Fall Collegiate is over and two Buccaneers were in the finals. ETSU's Francisco Diaz and Aimee Villavicencio played in the finals today at the Liberty Bell Tennis Complex. In the women's Flight 4 final, Villavicencio faced Molly Hoeffner from Gardner-Webb University. After losing the first set, Villavicencio won the tough match in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. In the men's Flight 4 final, Diaz lost to Anderson College's Olof Hallstrom in three sets, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2. Final results are as follows: Men's Finals: Flight 1: Jaco Kruger (Lees-McRae) def. Andres Intriago (Lees-McRae) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 Flight 2: Daniel Vajdic (Radford) def. Luis de la Vega (Virginia Intermont) 6-4, ret. Flight 3: Richard Booth (Southern Illinois) def. Julian Botero 6-4, 6-3 Flight 4: Olof Hallstrom (Anderson) def. Francisco Diaz (ETSU) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 Flight 5: Rachid Lamrissi (Radford) def. Mike Osborne (Gardner-Webb) 6-2, 6-4 Flight 6: Matt Cooper (Gardner-Webb) def. Robby Pierce (Virginia Intermont) 6-0, 6-2 Women's Finals: Flight 1: Lupita Hernandez (Tennessee Tech) def. Ana Skafar (Lees-McRae) 6-0, 6-3 Flight 2: Ana Marie Cibils (Tennessee Tech) def. Lucian Tamburian (Tennessee Tech) 6-3, 6-0 Flight 3: Maja Russinova (Tennessee Tech) def. Marcelina Gogol (Virginia Intermont) 6-2, 6-2 Flight 4: Aimee Villavicencio (ETSU) def. Molly Hoeffner (Gardner-Webb) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 Flight 5: Laura Dickinson (Radford) def. Emmy King (Western Carolina) 6-2, 6-4 Flight 6: Kristin Cotton (Western Carolina) def. Melissa Coulter (Carson-Newman) 6-0, 6-2