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(04/29/03 4:00pm)
The Men's Tennis team lost in their final dual-match of the season, 4-3 to Drew University.
Senior captain Marc Hill was victorious for the Lions in first singles, defeating Drew's JD Spina 6-4, 6-0. The win gave Hill a 13-3 record for the year in dual-matches.
Also victorious for the Lions in singles was freshman Kenneth Tsui with a 7-6, 6-1 win. Unfortunately for the Lions, Drew won the other four singles matches, accounting for the points needed to win the match.
On the positive side for the Lions, all three doubles teams were victorious. Hill and junior Bryan Hanley won 8-5 in first doubles, sophomores Neeraj Pilly and Victor Lai won in second doubles 9-7 and Tsui teamed with freshman Rishi Patel for an 8-4 win in third doubles.
Drew swept the second through fifth singles matches.
Third singles Drew's Anthony Carreras defeated Pilly 6-0, 5-7, 7-6 (4) and fourth singles Drew's Aaron McCormick defeated Lai in straight sets 6-3, 6-3.
In addition, Hill and Hanley improve to 12-1 in dual matches for the year.
With the loss, the Lions end the season with an 8-8 record.
The NCAA championships are scheduled for next weekend. With his 13-3 record, Hill looks to have a shot at a bid.
(04/15/03 4:00pm)
The women's tennis team saw their four-match winning streak break on Saturday, but rebounded Sunday to go 1-1 over the weekend.
The team bounced back from Saturday's setback with a victory over New York University (NYU), 6-2.
The Lions collected four victories in singles and two in doubles. Freshman Kristen Kerplacki was also victorious on Sunday, with a 6-1, 6-3 victory of NYU's Tess Coverman. This brings her season record for the season to 20-2 (14-1 in dual matches).
With an 8-1 victory on Sunday, the second doubles team of Kerplacki and freshman Jackie Gavornik upped their record to 18-2 overall.
Also victorious for the Lions were Gavornik in third singles, sophomore Katie D'Amato in fourth singles, junior Katie Richards in sixth singles and the team of D'Amato and Richards in third doubles.
The Violets were only able to win two singles victories, junior Michelle Dest defeated senior Kelly Hernandez 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 and sophomore Meghan Hayes defeated junior Kelli Emery 6-4, 6-1.
Brewers 7, Lions 2
The team dropped to a record of 12-2 on Saturday with a 7-2 loss to Vassar College, a team currently ranked fifth in the nation. Kerplacki was the sole singles winner for the Lions, winning 7-5, 6-4 in second singles against Vassar's Alexis Neider.
Kerplacki and Gavornik also teamed for the other point for the Lions with an 8-3 victory in second singles.
Prior to the matches, the final one at home this season, the team celebrated Senior Day by honoring its two seniors, Hernandez and Natalie Morelli.
The team is currently 13-2 on the season.
Upcoming Game
The Lions will finish their regular season this week with a match on Wednesday, April 16 at Bates College at 11 a.m.
(04/01/03 12:00pm)
The Oscars gave us a subdued, "more appropriate" ceremony. Primetime programming has been interspersed with war updates. And, rather than seeing the NCAA Tournament on CBS as scheduled the first two days after the attacks began, the only thing that could have been perceived as "March Madness" would have been the bombing of Baghdad.
It's obvious the war with Iraq has changed how we've seen entertainment in the recent weeks. This change poses a major question: Is entertainment, in particular sports, necessary? Although the sentiment that we should be focused on our troops is nice, it isn't necessarily a good one, and there is some precedence to it.
World War II had similar question raised. Major League Baseball had seriously considered shutting down the league during the war. It was at the time, however, that Franklin Roosevelt asked the leagues to continue playing. He recognized the ability of sports to raise morale throughout the country.
They did continue with Roosevelt's urging, and some new leagues were created at the time, like the All-American Girl's Baseball League made known to this generation in the movie, "A League of Their Own."
The league (along with counterparts like the NFL) had a decent reason to shut down. Baseball saw many of its great players, like Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller all head overseas to fight. The NFL had major problems just filling their rosters.
The problem was so bad for the NFL that the Rams suspended operations for two years and two seasons featured a merged franchise (the Eagles and Steelers one year, and the Steelers and Cardinals the next).
Losing players isn't a problem for the league at this point in time. So far, only one player has enlisted after Sept. 11, the Arizona Cardinals' Pat Lassiter.
The only halfway decent concern that sports organizations should have is the threat of terrorism, but that concern has been around for a while now. It's not going to just get worse because the war has begun.
I think we should take a page out of FDR's book, and urge these leagues to continue on as scheduled. There's only so much war coverage that viewers can watch without it either becoming monotonous, causing insanity or both. I know that the soldiers are busy, but hearing news from home would be good for morale. With 99 percent of our news focused on the war with Iraq, a subject they know quite well, they need entertainment outlets like sports or music.
(02/25/03 12:00pm)
Annika Sorenstam has been the most dominant player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour, and for this she has justly been invited to play in Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour events. I have no problems with this, but what I do have a problem with is the reaction it caused.
Just this week, a man named Brian Kontak announced his intentions to play in the Women's U.S. Open. Kontak is serious in trying to qualify, believing his cause is one of equality. After all, if women can play on the men's tour, shouldn't it be the other way around?
Simply put, the answer is no. Sorenstam is about opportunity, not gender equality. Sorenstam has made it clear from the beginning that she wants no part in being a PGA Tour regular.
As a fellow golfer (albeit, one nowhere near her caliber), I see this as Sorenstam wanting to challenge herself. Knowing that she is the best of the LPGA, it is time to see how competitive she can be with the best golf has to offer on the PGA Tour.
The LPGA Tour serves a major role in giving women the opportunity to golf for a living. However, the ability to make a living off of golf is still much more difficult for women. Purses are much smaller for women's events.
Add to this the fact that the LPGA Tour has 28 official events compared to the 47 offered by the PGA, it's not unreasonable to see why only five women won more than $1 million in prize money last year.
In comparisons, 67 men accomplished this. It is also important to remember that there exists a second tier tour for men, the Nationwide Tour, on which Kontak plays, while no such thing exists for women.
Even second and third-rate male pro golfers can play regularly. For a man to try and take that away is against the basic principles of freedom. In this case, the freedom to play. For a man to attempt to play in a women's event only shows a lingering existence of chauvinism in the sports world.
This isn't a revolution of professional golf, rather, it is a top-notch female pro looking to see how good she really is.
Sorenstam isn't looking to be Billie Jean King. She is trying to be more along the lines of Babe Zaharias, the legendary jack-of-all trades athlete who was the last woman to play a PGA event. She just wants to show her skills.