Home  Tennis (M) Men's Tennis - Bears Open Season with 7-2 Win
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Men's Tennis - Bears Open Season with 7-2 Win |
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 Chris Pappe won at # 3 singles and was part of the # 1 doubles team which also won.
The doubles had the look of a sweep right from the start. At one point early on sophomore Greg Mitchell and senior team captain Chris Pappe, playing #1 doubles, were up 5-0. Sophomores Nick Martin and Wesley Figaro, playing at #2, and freshmen Blake Maurer and Shaun Wilson, playing #3, were up 3-0 in each of their matches. Martin and Figaro went on to win 8-5. Maurer and Wilson won 8-0.
Holy Cross settled down and improved their play on the #1 court and eventually fought their way into a tie-breaker at 8 games all. In the tie-breaker, Holy Cross jumped out to a 4-2 lead. But on the next point, Pappe gambled, hitting a hard service return down the line, and was able to force an error to get the score to 4-3. The Bears tied Holy Cross on the next point with a Greg Mitchell overhead (4-4). Then Pappe hammered a service winner (5-4 Bears). Holy Cross missed its first serve and Mitchell, determined to make them pay, drew an error with a strong return of second serve (6-4 Bears). Holy Cross played a great volley on their next serve to try to stay in it at 6-5. Now it was Mitchell’s turn to miss his first serve. But he produced a vicious, high-bouncing kick serve on his second that Holy Cross could not handle. The Bears won the tie-breaker 7-5, and the #1 doubles match 9-8.
The singles was less eventful. Rainfall at about three games into the first set drove all matches indoors. It seemed that the indoor nets were hardly set up when Mitchell, playing #2, was off the court with a 6-1, 6-0 win. Pappe, playing #3 was off next winning 6-2, 6-2. The last two singles wins came from Maurer (6-3, 6-1), playing #5 and Wilson (6-2, 6-0) playing #6. Both freshmen are undefeated in singles and doubles play. |
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