TENNIS: Judges ace UAA opener
As the No. 1 men's tennis doubles match against the University of Rochester last Saturday entered its final stages, the score was tied at seven and had not seen a break of serve.
As the No. 1 men's tennis doubles match against the University of Rochester last Saturday entered its final stages, the score was tied at seven and had not seen a break of serve.
Coach Ben Lamanna's annual return to his alma mater of Bates College last Saturday afternoon ended with mixed results.The women's team dropped just one set in routing the Bobcats 9-0, but the Bobcats returned the favor on the men's side, sweeping the Judges 9-0 while not surrendering a single set.
Although the men's tennis team's 9-0 loss last Saturday came against a Middlebury College team that coach Ben Lamanna said was the top Division III squad in New England, Lamanna did feel Steven Nieman's '11 second set against Middlebury senior Filip Marinkovic at No.
Right before the final event of the 2008 Eastern College Athletic Conference swimming and diving championships in Pittsburgh, Pa.
After being honored as part of senior day at the swimming and diving team's match against Worcester Polytechnic Institute at home last Saturday afternoon, many of the seniors on both the men's and women's teams came through with their strongest finishes of the season.The five Brandeis seniors-Zahava Alter '08, Keara Dekay '08, Jonathan Eskow '08, Charlotte Rea '08, and Nick Rice '08-combined for five event victories, as both teams routed WPI in their final home meet of the season.
Upon completing the 400-yard individual medley event during the women's swimming and diving team's match against Clark University last Wednesday, Hollis Viray '10 was unaware of the magnitude of her first-place finish.
Though she has been an integral part of the current women's swimming team since she stepped on campus two years ago, Hollis Viray '10 is now also a part of the team's history after setting a school record in the 400-yard individual medley event in last Wednesday's victory at Clark University."That was great.
Although the women's swimming and diving team did not defeat Wheaton Colllege last Thursday, diver Charlotte Rea '08 reached a key benchmark in her bid to qualify for the NCAA championships.Rea posted qualifying scores in both required and voluntary dives for the third time this season, but the women's team lost 164-134, falling to 1-5 on the season.
Competing in their first meet against multiple opponents this season at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Winter Invitational last weekend, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams were done in by the host school's dominance.The men's team finished in third place out of six teams with 554.5 points, while the women's squad finished in last with 361 points, both well behind the first-place Engineers, who finished with 1,082.5 points on the men's side and 910.5 on the women's side.Both MIT squads dominated the competition.
Of the nine opponents the men's and women's fencing teams faced at last Saturday's Northeast Conference Meet, only two were varsity-level squads.
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