Catawba Sweeps Major Awards as SAC Men's Tennis Announces Award Winners and All-Conference Team
ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Catawba's Agustin Mastri was voted the 2025 South Atlantic Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Year, while his teammate Thomas Kostka was voted the Conference's Freshman of the Year. In addition, Catawba head coach Mic Moore was named the Coach of the Year, the SAC office announced today.
Mastri, a freshman from Venado Tuerto, Argentina, went 10-2 overall this season, and was undefeated at #1/2 singles in league play, including a 7-6, 7-6 win over Wingate's #1 singles player that clinched a 4-3 victory to help push the Catawba Indians to the SAC regular season title. He dropped just two sets in his first three conference wins this season.
Kostka, a freshman from Cannes, France, went 14-0 between No. 2 and No. 3 singles this season, sweeping each of his eight wins in conference play. Kostka did not drop a single set in league play in his rookie season.
Moore earns the SAC Men's Tennis Coach of the Year honor after guiding the Catawba Indians to a perfect 12-0 SAC regular season and has Catawba up to No. 10 in the national poll. This is the first SAC Regular Season championship in program history and the highest national ranking achieved by Catawba in history.
Joining Mastri and Kostka on the All-SAC first team singles squad are Wingate teammates Gabriel Constantino and Carlo Rosellini, along with Limestone's Obrad Markovski and Alexandru Giurea from Lincoln Memorial.
The All-SAC first team doubles honorees are Rosellini and Luka Brown of Wingate, Hugo Ruiz Espejo and Giurea of Lincoln Memorial, and Catawba's Kostka and Alessandro Valletta.
2025 SAC Men's Tennis Conference
First Team Doubles
Luka Brown/Carlo Rosellini, Wingate
Alexandru Giurea / Hugo Ruiz Espejo, Lincoln Memorial
Thomas Kostka / Alessandro Valletta, Catawba
Second Team Doubles
Obrad Markovski / Rodolfo Villaviciencio, Limestone
Marnix Van Dalen/Paul Gayk, Carson-Newman
Rufus Plane / Vadym Rogynskyi, Lenoir-Rhyne
Third Team Doubles
Luca Bergonzi / Agustin Mastri, Catawba
Mateo Berne / Sebastian Zabala, Catawba
Ethan Hirons / Radu Florea, Lincoln Memorial
First Team Singles
Agustin Mastri, Catawba
Gabriel Constantino, Wingate
Obrad Markovski, Limestone
Thomas Kostka, Catawba
Carlo Rosellini, Wingate
Alexandru Giurea, Lincoln Memorial
Second Team Singles
Radu Florea, Lincoln Memorial
Marnix Van Dalen, Carson-Newman
Florian Walcher, Wingate
Rufus Plane, Lenoir-Rhyne
Mateo Berne, Catawba
Luca Bergonzi, Catawba
Third Team Singles
Nevio Dux, Lenoir-Rhyne
Mathis Collignon, Anderson
Federico Spinetta, Wingate
Vadym Rogynskyi, Lenoir-Rhyne
Andre Zamorano, Limestone
Ryosuke Inagawa, Catawba
Player of the Year
Agustin Mastri, Catawba
Freshman of the Year
Thomas Kostka, Catawba
Coach of the Year
Mic Moore, Catawba