Sophomore Agritelley earns spot on Southland's All-Conference First Team

Men's Tennis | 4/23/2015 12:02:00 PM

ABILENE - Sophomore Nico Agritelley Thursday was announced as one of only six Southland Conference competitors selected to its first team. A Dallas native, Agritelley posted a 19-7 singles record that included a 5-0 record vs. Southland opposition and 6-0 mark when competing at the No. 2 spot.

Agritelley was joined on the first team by Peter Nagy, Kevin Bettendroffer and Ricardo Mayagoitia of first-place Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and Lamar's Nikita Lis and Michael Feucht.

Agritelley defeated all his conference opponents in straight sets with the exception of Lamar's Jeandre Hoogenboezem, who lost to the Wildcats' second-year star in three sets, 3-6, 6-2, 10-4. Additionally, of the seven defeats Agritelley suffered only three were in straight sets and two of those came when he was asked to play at the No. 1 position for the better part of the week.

After Agritelley fell to 89th-ranked AJ Catanzariti of No. 9 Texas A&M on March 15, he finished dual season on a team-best seven-match winning streak that included a victory over Southland second-team honoree Guillaume Rauseo of Corpus Christi, 6-2, 7-6 (6-2).

In non-conference competition Agritelley scored wins over opponents from established DI programs such as Troy, Murray State, Seattle, Xavier and Liberty. While on the doubles court he and his partners Guilherme Gesser and Henry Adams combined for 13 victories.

Agritelley is a three-time Southland Conference postseason honoree. Last year he made second-team singles and doubles (with Jason Proctor).

The 2015 All-Southland Conference men's tennis teams are comprised of six first-team and six second-team singles members and three first-team and three second-team doubles squads. Teams are chosen by vote of the league's head coaches and sports information directors. Recipients are placed on the teams by the number of votes received. Voting panelists are not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.
 
This is the third year for the league to recognize champions at each singles and doubles position. Conference champions must have played at least 50 percent of conference matches at that position. Results are based off winning percentage, then number of wins.

Agritelley and Wildcats begin play this morning at the 115th-Annual Ojai Invitational, which is their season-ending event.
 

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2015 All-Southland Conference Men's Tennis Teams and Individual Awards
Player of the Year: Peter Nagy, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Freshman of the Year: Benny Schweizer, Lamar
Coach of the Year: Steve Moore, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
 
First-Team Singles
Peter Nagy, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Kevin Bettendroffer, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Ricardo Mayagoitia, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Nikita Lis, Lamar
Nico Agritelley, Abilene Christian
Michael Feucht, Lamar
 
First-Team Doubles
Jeandre Hoogenboezem/Nikita Lis, Lamar
Peter Nagy/Arthur Bedel, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Rui Silva/Blake Gregor, New Orleans
 
Second-Team Singles
Javier Pujol, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Lukas Clemens, Nicholls
Leonard Ivic, UIW
Benny Schweizer, Lamar
Blake Gregor, New Orleans
Guillaume Rauseo, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
 
Second-Team Doubles
Juuso Laitinen/Mikko Rajamaki, Lamar
Kieran Cronin/Bernard Wezeman, Nicholls
Kevin Bettendroffer/Guillaume Rauseo, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
 
Conference Champions
Singles
No. 1 Singles: Peter Nagy, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (5-0)
No. 2 Singles: Kevin Bettendroffer, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (5-0)
No. 3 Singles: Nico Agritelley, Abilene Christian (4-0)
No. 4 Singles: Benny Schweizer, Lamar (5-0)
No. 5 Singles: Javier Pujol, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (4-1); Romain Lefevre, New Orleans (4-1)
No. 6 Singles: Paul Cook, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (2-1)

Doubles
No. 1 Doubles: Jeandre Hoogenboezem/Nikita Lis, Lamar (5-0)
No. 2 Doubles: Rui Silva/Blake Gregor, New Orleans (4-1)
No. 3 Doubles: Juuso Laitinen/Mikko Rajamaki, Lamar (3-0)