<< Front page Sports April 23, 2004

Tennis drops two

Last Thursday the men’s tennis team traveled to Kenyon College to match up against the top team in the conference in Gambier, Ohio. Kenyon ranked seventh overall in the Central Region, defeated the Yeomen 5-2. The Yeomen are ranked 14th in the region.

Seniors Jamie Frankel and Marian Bocek and junior Nick Ogren all lost in straight sets in the top three singles positions.

Junior Mark Knee and sophomore Jimmy Rosenheim were the only singles players to win for the Yeomen in the number four and five slots. Knee won 6-2, 7-6 (3). Rosenheim won his match in three sets, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

First-year Arthur Zeyda fell 7-6 (5), 6-4 for the sixth singles.

In the number one doubles position, Frankel and sophomore David Cotter were swept 8-0 by the second ranked doubles team in the region.

Ogren and Knee combined for a victorious number two doubles, 8-4. Rosenheim and Zeyda lost as the third doubles team.

The Yeomen rebounded quickly from the loss, dismantling Allegheny College on their own courts, 6-1, in a NCAC match on Saturday.

Oberlin won five of the six singles matches. Frankel, Bocek, Knee, Zeyda and junior Ananya Balaram were all victorious. The only Yeoman to lose his singles match was Rosenheim in the number four slot, falling in a close match 4-6, 5-7.

Frankel and Bocek lost the number one doubles match that went down to the wire. They fell in a tiebreaker, 9-8 (6).

Ogren and Knee won the two doubles 8-4 and Cotter and Rosenheim swept the third doubles 8-0.

“Our perseverance helped out,” Knee said.

On Tuesday, the Yeomen lost to Denison University 5-1. The Yeomen only won the number one singles, where Frankel triumphed 6-3, 7-5.

The Yeomen currently sit at 13-7 overall, 2-2 in conference play, good enough for third place out of the five teams in the East division of the NCAC.

“We overcame some tough conditions,” Knee said, “It’s our best shot to place high and maybe surprising a few people.”

The top four teams out of each division of the NCAC qualify for the NCAC tournament. Oberlin has clinched its spot for postseason play and now awaits its seeding for tournament play, which will begin Friday at Oberlin.


 
 
   

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