As has become routine, both teams advance pretty easily — see here and here.

Both teams won national championships last year.

The women’s team also won the NCAA crown in 1995, 1996, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2010. The men’s team also won in 2008 and 2009.

Given the back-to-back championships in 2008 and 2009, it wouldn’t be unprecedented for both teams to defend their national titles successfully this year. But, wow, talk about a challenge.

I made it to the regional semifinals on Sunday and took some photos. I’m only posting a couple of dozen of the best photos here, but I’ve posted a whole lot more to the Savannah Unplugged Facebook page. Click here for the men’s gallery and click here for the women’s gallery.

Congratulations and best of luck to Coach Simon Earnshaw, Assistant Coach Iuliia Sherrod, and all the players, as well as all the Armstrong employees who support the team.

We finished up a great semester at Armstrong Atlantic State University last week, but some students have found their commitments continuing — and that’s a good thing.

Armstrong’s tennis teams — both the men and the women — play on Wednesday in the round of 16 in the NCAA Division II tournament in Louisville. I don’t want to jinx them, but both teams have legitimate shots at national titles. The men enter the tournament ranked #1, while the women are ranked #3.

Golfer Jenna Birch is also in Louisville for the NCAA finals this week. The men’s golf team ended the season tied for 12th in the South/Southeast regional. The softball team made it deep into the regionals. The baseball team won the Peach Belt Conference tournament and enters NCAA regional play on Thursday.

I try to go to a few of the tennis matches every year, and I already posted some pics of an early season match. I also attended the regional finals a few weeks ago and posted over 100 pics on Facebook already. I’ve winnowed those pics down to the better ones for this post.

In the action here, the women defeated Flagler 5-0 and the men defeated Georgia State 5-0.