Sports Brief: M. Tennis unable to advance to finals
The Penn men's tennis team came up short at the Virginia Invitational, despite a successful first day.
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The Penn men's tennis team came up short at the Virginia Invitational, despite a successful first day.
Playing in his usual No. 3 singles spot, freshman Jonathan Boym toed the baseline on Sunday afternoon up a set and leading 5-3 in the second set against Columbia's Paul Ratchford. Boym knew that with a win the Penn men's tennis team could clinch a victory over the Lions and take home at least a share of its first Ivy League title since 1971.
It's been a long season for the Penn men's tennis team.
Theo Epstein is known among many Red Sox faithful as Boston's Prodigal Son. Just 28 years old when the Red Sox hired him as the team's general manager in 2002, the Yale graduate assembled the team that won the World Series in 2004 -- Boston's first World Series title in 86 years.
Riding a 12-match winning streak going into Boston and coming off an electric 4-3 win over defending Ivy League champion Brown, everything was going right for the Penn men's tennis team. The Quakers were confident and ready to take another step toward winning the Ivy League championship and qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
Junior Mikhail Bekker demonstrated in no uncertain terms on Saturday why it's so important that the Penn men's tennis team keep up its increased conditioning regimen.
The Penn men's tennis team will put its 10-match winning streak on the line today when it hosts Yale (7-6, 0-0 Ivy). The team will then take on visiting Brown (13-8, 0-0) tomorrow.
Junior Mikhail Bekker ended one streak to keep another one going for the Penn men's tennis team.
For freshman Jonathan Boym, the Penn men's tennis team's 6-1 victory over Army yesterday -- its ninth straight win -- was nothing more than a cap to a successful preseason.
A risky move almost turned into disaster yesterday for the Penn men's tennis team.
The Penn men's tennis team hasn't been doing a lot of losing lately. So when the Quakers opened their match against Old Dominion Saturday by losing the doubles point, it was more than enough to give the team the wakeup call it needed to eventually beat the Monarchs 5-2.
The Penn men's tennis team picked up two more wins over spring break to push its winning streak to five, defeating Central Florida 4-3 last Tuesday and blanking Florida Atlantic 7-0 on Saturday. The Quakers (10-4) haven't lost since falling to Baylor at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships last month.
Despite steamrolling St. John's yesterday for its second straight 6-1 victory, the Penn men's tennis team is in anything but cruise control.
Junior Mikhail Bekker calls this year's men's tennis team the best he's seen since he arrived at Penn three years ago.
Maybe the Penn women's tennis team should have all of its matches at 9 a.m.
Freshman Jonathan Boym breezed through his singles match 6-0, 6-1 and teamed up with junior John Stetson to win his doubles set 8-0, but still walked away disappointed.
It would have been easy for the Penn women's swimming team to overlook West Chester on Friday night -- it was the team's final meet before the Ivy League Championships begin on Feb. 23, after all. But the Quakers remained focused, comfortably beating the visiting Golden Rams 151-92.
The Penn men's and women's swimming teams headed down to Annapolis on Saturday. And just like last weekend's meet, they came away with two different results.
The gymnastics team looked like a squad still working out the kinks in its system when the Quakers fell to Yale on Saturday by a fairly wide margin, 187.675 to 187.075.
At first glance, the Penn swim teams' losses to Brown on Saturday were not the best way to kick off the new year -- the men fell 137.50-105.50, while the women lost 123-120.