M. Tennis makes miracle comeback to win

The Penn men's tennis team traveled to Princeton Friday for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships. In the their first match, the fifth-seeded Quakers easily disposed of Providence, 5-2, earning a quarter-final matchup with Yale. The fourth-seeded Elis jumped to a quick 3-1 lead over the Quakers. Penn needed to sweep the last three matches. The near-impossible feat was made even more difficult since two of the three remaining Quakers were freshmen. In the fifth match, freshman David Graziano fell behind one set early in the match. Graziano, serving at 5-4 in the second set faced four match points. But he came back to tie the game, winning one of the potential match points with a broken string. He went on to win the game and the third set to cut Yale's lead to 3-2. Fellow freshman Marc Fisicaro took the court with the hopes of the team riding on his shoulders. Fisicaro also fell behind 1-0 early. But he went on to win the second and third sets to bring the score to 3-3. Senior captain Marc Schecter stepped onto the court in the team's third do-or-die situation. In a tough three-set match, Schecter sealed the Quaker trifecta, completing a most unlikely comeback. The grueling battle with Yale seemed to drain the Quakers as they advanced to a semifinals against Harvard. "It was a huge letdown after the upset," coach Gene Miller said. The Crimson easily defeated Penn, 6-1, earning a finals duel with Princeton. Despite their anticlimactic departure, the Quakers have a new-found confidence and possibly a couple of new-found stars.