Garnet Foil Fords for Fifth Straight
HAVERFORD, Pa. -- The Swarthmore men's tennis team won its fifth straight match, rolling past Haverford 7-2 Tuesday afternoon. The Garnet (6-9), ranked 17th in the Atlantic South region, closed the regular season by downing the Fords (12-3), who came into the match ranked eighth in the region.
Haverford won at No. 1 doubles, but the Garnet picked up wins at No.2 and No. 3 to take an early 2-1 lead. Freshman Brian Nalitt and sophomore Kevin Shaugnessy won for the fifth straight match, downing the Fords' Elmar Trust and Evan Stiegel 8-6. Willy Nolan '10 and Mark Greenburg picked up their fourth consecutive win, claiming No. 3 doubles by a score of 8-6 over Marc Rudolph and Stephen Feder.
Garnet senior Jon Reiss, ranked fourth in the Atlantic South region, won his fourth straight match 6-0, 6-1 over Haverford's Alex Buxbaum at No. 1 singles. Nalitt '10 ran his personal win-streak to six with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Trust at No.3 while Nolan won for the eighth straight time at No. 4, besting Steigel 6-2, 6-0.
Shaughnessy kept the Swarthmore train rolling along, cruising past Feder 6-1, 6-3 at No. 5 and sophomore J.J. England wrapped up the match with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Rudolph at No. 6.
The Garnet await word on a possible NCAA Tournament bid—Swarthmore has participated in the Tournament each of the past 13 seasons, including a run to the quarterfinals in 2006.