University of Southern Indiana senior Joel Stern<http://gousieagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2442> (Mjoelby, Sweden) was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Tennis Player of the Week. It is the first GLVC weekly award for Stern and is the first weekly award for the Screaming Eagles since Jack Joyce<http://gousieagles.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2437> won on April 7, 2015.
Stern went a combined 5-1 to lead the 33rd ranked Eagles to an 8-1 win over Carson-Newman University in their first of three road matches this past weekend. USI then defeated King University, 5-4, and Limestone College, 6-3, on Saturday and Sunday.
In doubles play, Stern partnered with a different teammate all three matches, but the senior came away with two wins with dominating 8-3 scores. Stern was a force in singles play the entire weekend winning three singles matches by a combined score of 37-15.
The Eagles continue in the middle of their ten-match road swing against Francis Marion University tomorrow afternoon in Florence South Carolina beginning at 1 o’clock.
