After a 5-4 win at Chapman University on Feb. 20 and a 7-2 victory at Occidental College on Feb. 21, the men's tennis team looked to translate its West Coast success to the East Coast in a road match against Vassar College on Saturday.

The Judges reeled off their second consecutive 7-2 win, relying on a 3-0 sweep in doubles competition and four strong singles performances.

The women meanwhile failed to rebound from two straight defeats in California, dropping a 6-1 decision to Bryant University on Saturday.

While Michael Arguello '17 dropped the No. 1 match in straight sets for the men, Brian Granoff '17 rebounded from a 6-4 loss in the first set to secure a victory over Vassar freshman Nick Litsky by taking the final two sets, 7-5, 6-2.

Danny Lubarsky '16, after earning a 6-3 win in his first set over sophomore Christian Phelps, dropped the next two sets by 6-3 margins in a loss at the No. 3 position.

From there, the Judges did not miss a beat. Alec Siegel '15, Michael Secular '15 and Jeff Cherkin '17 each won their next three matches to give Brandeis a 4-2 lead.

It proved to be much of the same story in the doubles competition. Arguello and Lubarsky earned a tight 9-8 win-including a 5-0 tiebreaker-at the No. 1 position over Phelps and sophomore Daniel Cooper.

The next two doubles tandems, though, cruised to victory. Siegel and Cherkin defeated their opponents by an 8-3 margin while Granoff and Secular rounded out the day with a dominating 8-1 win.

Carley Cooke '15 started off the action for the women at the No. 1 position with a first-set win, but eventually dropped the match 2-1.

That defeat seemed to set the tone for the rest of the Judges.

Allyson Bernstein '14, Simone Vandroff '15 and Roberta Bergstein '14 proceeded to fall in straight sets to the Bulldogs. Emily Eska '15, though, saved the day at the No. 5 position and reversed the tide of defeats against rookie Briana Leonard.

Eska persisted past a 7-5 loss in her first set to then win the match by margins of 6-1 and 11-9, respectively.

The women, however, continued to struggle the rest of the way, failing to muster a victorious set in doubles competition.

Bergstein and Sarita Biswas '16 came the closest, pulling towithin a 7-6 margin, but ultimately could not get the job done in an eventual 8-6 loss.

Both tennis squads will next travel to an invitational hosted by Middlebury College on Saturday.
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