ERIE, Pa. – Behind a pair of third-place finishes by Richard Parks (Penn Hills, Pa./Penn Hills) and four fourth place finishes, the Tomcats posted a third-place team finish at the 2013 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Men's Tennis Championships Saturday at Pennbriar Athletic Club in Erie.

The third place finish is three spots better than the Tomcats' sixth place finish a year ago, and the best the team has done at the PAC tournament since 2006, when Thiel took home second place, finishing with 30 points.

Grove City finished the two-day event with 46 total points. Saint Vincent was second with 44 points, followed by Thiel College in third (14), Westminster College in fourth (12), Waynesburg University in fifth (9), Thomas More College in sixth (7), Washington & Jefferson College in seventh (3) and Bethany College in eighth (0).

PAC Player of the Year (conference's most valuable player) honors went to Saint Vincent freshman David Cenker, who earned an individual flight championship at first singles and teamed up with junior Anthony Nemanic to take home the number one doubles title.

Grove City first-year head coach Jeff Buxton was voted the conference's coach of the year, while Scott Renninger and the Westminster program was voted the league's sportsmanship award winner.
 
Parks, who entered the championship event as the number three seed, secured a first round victory over sixth-seeded Isaiah Cochran of Waynesburg (6-1, 6-0) before falling to second seed Peter Riley of Grove City (6-4, 6-1) on Friday. He wrapped up play in Saturday's third-place match by defeating fourth-seeded Erin Thompson by forfeit.

The team of Parks and McAndrew came into the championships as the fourth seed at first doubles and opened with an 8-4 win over fifth-seeded Troy Abbott and Sean Black of Westminster before suffering a 8-1 loss to top seeded Cenker and Nemanic of Saint Vincent Friday evening. The duo picked up a 6-1 win in Saturday's third-place match over sixth-seeded Eric Thompson and Sergio Pascual of Thomas More.
 
A host of Tomcats took home fourth-place finishes, with Logan Sturgeon (third singles), Shun Kogai (Tokyo, Japan/) (fourth), Yosief Woldegebriel (Hartsville, Pa./William Tennent) (sixth) and the doubles team of Logan Sturgeon/Trevor Fancher (third doubles) all scoring two points for Thiel.