MEADVILLE, Pa. -- The three-peat is complete.

Allegheny College men's tennis blanked second-seeded Grove City College in the 2025 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship Tournament finals on Monday afternoon at the Robertson Athletic Complex for its third consecutive conference title.

The Gators (20-6), ranked No. 74 nationally in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll, earned the PAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Championships. The first round of the national championship tournament will begin on Friday, May 9. The NCAA will announce the complete bracket on Monday, May 5.

Monday's match was the third-straight PAC championship featuring Allegheny and Grove City (11-5), as the Gators and Wolverines have quickly formed one of the PAC's top rivalries on the court since Allegheny returned to the conference. But just like the team's previous matches against PAC opponents this spring, the title bout ended in shutout fashion. Not only did AC sweep all three doubles matches with 6-1 scores, but the Wolverines were unable to take a set in any of the completed or unfinished singles matches. 

Freshman Arick Baldwin (Oakwood, Ohio/Oakwood) swept Grove City's Eric Jordan in the fifth singles match without losing a game. Senior Anton Hedlund (Hovas, Sweden/Katrinelundsgymnasiet), the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, extended the match lead to 3-0 with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Isaac DeMan. Shortly thereafter, first-year netter Javier Bejarano Jimenez (El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain/IES Padre Luis Coloma) defeated Garrett Ranney for the clinching point, 6-0, 6-1.

The win marked the team's 20th of the year, one shy of the program record for the most in a season set in 1995-96. Men's tennis is the first Allegheny team in any sport to win three consecutive conference titles since the women's cross country team placed atop the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Hedlund, Bejarano Jimenez, and Kristian Janci (Kysucké Nové Mesto, Slovakia/The British International School Shanghai) represented the Gators on the PAC All-Tournament Team for their combined performances in the semifinal and championship matches.

Doubles Results
1. Anton Hedlund / Kristian Janci def. Allen Morris / Garrett Ranney, 6-1
2. Arick Baldwin / Olivier Erkens def. Isaac DeMan / Ryan Kirkpatrick, 6-1
3. Benedek Kaibas / Levente Mihaly def. Kiser Swain / Nathan Clark, 6-1

Singles Results
1. Kristian Janci vs. Allen Morris, 6-0, 4-1 (unfinished)
2. Anton Hedlund def. Isaac DeMan, 6-1, 6-0
3. Levente Mihaly vs. Kiser Swain, 5-6 (unfinished)
4. Javier Bejarano Jimenez def. Garrett Ranney, 6-0, 6-1
5. Arick Baldwin def. Eric Jordan, 6-0, 6-0
6. Olivier Erkens vs. Wesley Morgan, 6-2, 5-0

Up Next
Allegheny will find out where it will travel for the opening rounds of the NCAA Championships on Monday, May 5, on NCAA.com.