WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Bowdoin College men's tennis team led
2-1 after doubles play, but could only manage one point in singles
play in a 6-3 loss to seventh-ranked Williams on Saturday. The
eleventh-ranked Polar Bears fall to 10-4 this season with the
setback.
Bowdoin claimed doubles wins at one and two. Oscar Pena and Jamie
Neely downed the Ephs' top doubles team of Bret Thacher and Dicken
Chaplin 8-4. The Polar Bears' Alex Caughron and Stephen Sullivan
teamed up to dispose of the Ephs #2 duo of Nick Lebedoff and Will
Petrie, 8-3. The lone Eph doubles point came from Jeremy Weinberger
and Kevin Shallcross as they defeated Alex White and Tyler
Anderson, 8-3.
But Williams rebounded with victories at the top five singles
positions, with Bowdoin's lone point coming courtesy of Josh Cranin
at number six.
The Polar Bears will look to rebound with a match at Amherst on
Sunday at noon.
Williams 6, Bowdoin 3
Doubles:
1) Pena/Neely (B) def. Thacher/Chaplin (W) – 8-4
2) Caughron/Sullivan (B) def. Lebedoff/Petrie (W) – 8-3
3) Weinberger/Shallcross (W) def. White/Anderson (B) –
8-3
Singles:
1) Lebedoff (W) def. Sullivan (B) – 6-1, 6-3
2) Weinberger (W) def. Pena (B) – 6-3, 6-3
3) Rick Devlin (W) def. Anderson (B) – 6-3, 6-1
4) Petrie (W) def. Caughron (B) – 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
5) Shallcross (W) def. White (B) – 6-0, 6-7 (4), 6-3
6) Cranin (B) def. Karol Furmaga (W) – 6-1, 6-3