Twelve student-athletes were honored on Thursday night at the Fourteenth Golden Eagle Award Dinner held at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. Referred to as the ‘best night of the year for Westmont Athletics,’ the event is sponsored by the Pacific Beverage Company and Pete and Gerd Jordano.

“It’s even better than our 28-point win over Azusa Pacific,” said associate athletic director and head women’s basketball coach Kirsten McKnight in welcoming the 125 attendees.

Westmont athletic director Dave Wolf served as master of ceremonies for the event and noted that the Westmont staff of head coaches tallied a combined 114 years of experience and that for seven of the coaches, their entire head coaching experience has been at Westmont.

Seniors Kyle Godfrey and Ryan Shultz led Westmont men’s tennis to a 7-2 victory over Chapman (6-11) in the Warriors’ final dual match of the year. Godfrey won at number one singles, defeating Cliff Yook 6-2, 6-3.

“I got a big lead in the first set and got a couple of other breaks and rode with the early momentum,” said Godfrey. “I was feeding off the energy of the matches next to me. Aaron (Cooke) was rolling very quickly and Ryan was playing really well. I was serving well today. When I am serving well it picks the rest of my game up and gives me a lot of confidence.”

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Senior Kyle Godfrey and freshman Aaron Cooke earned wins at number one and two singles respectively, but it was not enough as Westmont Men’s Tennis (5-12, 1-7) fell to #11 Point Loma Nazarene (9-9, 3-5) on Saturday at Westmont’s Abbott Tennis Courts.

Godfrey claimed the first set 7-5 over Point Loma’s Joel Myers and then was awarded the victory when Myers retired. Cooke battled to a 7-6 victory in his first set against Curt Wheeler, winning the tiebreaker 7-5. In the second set, Wheeler came back for a 6-4 win. That sent the number two singles match into a super-breaker which Cooke won 10-5.

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Westmont Men’s Tennis (4-8) avenged an earlier loss by reversing the score from February’s match against California Lutheran and winning 6-3. The home match for Westmont was played at the Tennis Club of Santa Barbara.

“It was great to turn tables on Cal Lu with a great team effort,” said Westmont head coach Chris Elwood. “The big difference was in doubles. Last month they swept the doubles but today we used different teams and they clicked.”

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After suffering a sweep in doubles, Westmont Men’s Tennis (3-7) split the singles matches with the Cal Poly Pomona (3-2) resulting in a 3-6 non-conference loss to the Broncos.

The Warriors wins came on courts two, three and four. At number two, Aaron Cooke defeated Salvador Romero 6-3, 6-1 while Kent Stormans won on court three by the same score over Mike Palacio. On the number four court, junior Ryan Shultz claimed a 6-1 win in the first set and then squeaked by Joe Madoo 7-6 in the second set, winning the tiebreaker 7-2.

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Westmont Men’s Tennis (3-5, 1-2) picked up its first Golden State Athletic Conference win on Tuesday by sweeping the Eagles of Biola (0-6, 0-3) by a score of 9-0 at the Abbott Tennis Courts.

Senior team captain Kyle Godfrey cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win at number one singles, defeating Biola’s Colin Snow. Freshman Aaron Cooke claimed the win at number two with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Tyler Jung while fellow freshman Kent Stormans won on the number three court by the same score over Justin Mart.

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Westmont senior Ryan Shultz was the lone winner for the Warriors in Saturday’s 8-1 loss to #2 Azusa Pacific (7-1, 3-0) at the Abbott Tennis Courts. Shultz, who has recently returned to the Warrior lineup after suffering an injury, defeated Eric Isaacson in the number six singles match. After losing the first set 6-2, Shultz rallied to win the second set by the same score. A super-tiebreaker was conducted to determine the match winner with Shultz prevailing 10-7.

Senior Kyle Godfrey came close to winning a second team point for the Warriors in his number one singles match with Matthijs Bolsius. Godfrey lost the first set 6-3 and then came back to take the second set 7-6. However, Bolsius won the super-tiebreaker 10-3.

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Westmont Men’s Tennis (1-3, 0-1) opened Golden State Athletic Conference play on Monday with an 8-1 loss in Costa Mesa against Vanguard (1-1, 1-0). The Warriors were swept in doubles action, though the match at number two went the distance. Vanguard’s Tino Brodar and Thomas Frank eventually won the doubles marathon, defeating freshmen Aaron Cooke and Kent Stormans 9-8.

At number one doubles, Westmont senior Kyle Godfrey and junior Arthur Kalayian lost to Florian Lemke and Gregory Chevalier 8-3. Sophomore Ryley Schultz and freshman Chris Hill played on the number two court where they lost to Garrett Gillon and Blake Lamberth 8-4.

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