For women's tennis player Faith Broderick '13, senior week represented an opportunity for the squad's lone senior to leave her mark on the Rieger Tennis Courts.

And though her team split their last matches of the regular season this past weekend, Broderick managed to end her season on a high note, as she downed College of the Holy Cross sophomore Taylor Stathis in the team's 8-1 romp of Division I Holy Cross on Sunday at Rieger Tennis Courts in the No. 24 Judges' final regular season home match before their postseason action begins this weekend.

"I thought our girls did a great job of staying focused," said coach Ben Lamanna of the team's Senior Day victory. "Faith always wants it to be about the team, but the girls were thinking about it being Faith's last match and we put out a good result."

Prior to the match against Holy Cross, both Brandeis squads dropped a couple of tough matches to ranked opponents-the Judges fell to No. 8 Bowdoin College, 8-1 on the road on Saturday.

Like their female counterparts did on Saturday, the men lost their match on the road at No. 6 Bowdoin 8-1, falling to 6-9 this year.

Both teams will enter the Unviersity Athletic Association tournament to be held this weekend with the sixth seeds.

Against Holy Cross, the women-who were not intimidated by their foes' Division I stature-took control right away and never let up. They won nine of their 10 singles wins by scores of 6-1 or 6-0, which emphasized the home team's dominance overall.

Furthermore, they also cruised to an 8-1 margin of victory in all three of their doubles matches.

The Judges started the match in dominating fashion.

Broderick won in first singles 6-1, 6-1. Allyson Bernstein '14 was just as dominating, defeating Holy Cross freshman Jaclyn Carroll 6-1, 6-0. Maya Vasser '16 gave up the only win above one, defeating junior Maya Welch 6-4, 6-1.

Carley Cooke '15 and Broderick dominated in Broderick's last home match of her career, while Marissa Lazar '14 and Bernstein continued the trend, as they finished the doubles sweep to underline the Judges' superiority in the match as a whole.

"We're really going to miss Faith," said Lamanna.

"She's a superstar. She's got over 100 wins in both singles and doubles, and she's done remarkable things for the program in the last four years. Her and Carley are doing really well and could possibly make it to Nationals. It'd be a great reward for her."

Much in contrast to the dominating performance that the team exemplified in Sunday's action, the women's team began the weekend with a whimper, falling in tough fashion to host Bowdoin.

The Polar Bears swept singles play, as the Judges managed to take just one set at the first slot.

Cooke won the first set, 6-4, but lost the second and third sets, 6-1 which consigned her to a demoralizing defeat. Broderick fell 6-2, 6-0 at second singles.

The Judges' lone win came in doubles play, as Cooke and Broderick pulled off an 8-4 victory at first doubles. Simone Vandroff '15 and Roberta Bergstein '14 made it tough for the hosts in their doubles' match, as they took the Polar Bears to a tiebreaker. However, they ultimately fell 9-7 to compound the Judges' misery.

While the men fell 8-1 against Bowdoin, the score was not indicative of the action. Steven Milo '13 split the first two sets in first singles against sophomore Noah Bragg 7-5, 1-6.
His team would have hoped that his strong perforance in the first two sets would have led to a momentum-building victory in the pivotal singles match.

However, his efforts ultimately proved to be futile, as he dropped the super-set tiebreaker, 12-10. Danny Lubarsky '16 also lost in tough fashion, falling in a super-set tiebreaker 3-6, 6-2, 10-7.

In the sixth spot, Alec Siegel '15 was shutout 6-0, 6-0. Michael Secular '15 lost the first set 6-0, but managed two games in the second set at fifth singles to restore a bit of parity in the match.

The Judges got their lone win in doubles play, as Milo and Dave Yovanoff '13 defeated sophomores Doug Caplan and Kyle Wolstencroft 8-6. Siegel and Mitch Krems '16 lost 8-1, while Lubarsky and Secular fell in tough fashion 8-4.

Following the weekend, the men's team beat Clark University yesterday at home, 7-2. They will tune up for their final tournament of the season in a road match against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today at 4:00 p.m.

Entering the tournament, Lamanna is optimistic of his team's chances to perform well.

"We're the number six seed on both the men's and women's side, so both teams will be playing [Washington University in Saint Louis.] We're trying to knock off some good teams, because our goal is always to get into the top four of the UAA."
"It's a grind of a tournament, both phyiscally and mentally," he continued, noting the toughness in regards to the heat of Florida as particularly challenging.

"We have guys and girls who want to take the program to the next level, and there's no better place to do it than at the UAA Championships."

The women's squad is off until Friday, when both squads will conclude their season at the UAA Championships this weekend in Orlando, Fla.

- Henry Loughlin contributed reporting