March 21, 2007

Final Stats

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Penn swept the three doubles matches and posted five straight set singles victories in recording a 7-0 win over the Navy tennis team, Wednesday afternoon at Levy Pavilion in Philadelphia.

The Quaker lineup features four singles players and one doubles team who hold Northeast Region rankings, with No. 1 singles player Jason Pinsky also ranked 76th nationally in singles.

"It was not one of our better matches of the season," said Navy head coach John Officer. "Penn was too strong for us today. Their top three players are some of the better players in the region and we didn't fare as well against them as we needed to."

The Quakers, 5-11 on the year, dropped a total of eight games in winning the three doubles matches from the Mids, then lost a combined seven games in winning at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 singles. Pinsky recorded a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Nate Nelms (So., St. Mary's, Ga.), Jonathan Boyd, the No. 11 singles player in the region, won a 6-1, 6-1 match over Jason Hill (So., Marietta, Ga.) at No. 2 singles, and Mikhail Bekker, ranked 20th regionally, posted a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Johnny Waters (So., Papillion, Neb.) at No. 3 singles.

Navy, 6-10 on the season, will return home for a pair of matches this weekend against Colgate and Bucknell, with both matches slated to begin at 12 Noon. Weather permitting, Saturday's match against the Raiders and Sunday's match against the Raiders will be played outdoors at the U.S. Naval Academy.

"We have faced a challenging schedule to date, with the hope that facing these opponents will have better prepared ourselves for the start of the Patriot League season," said Officer. "We need to play better than we did today if we want to win the league, however."

Penn (5-11) def. Navy (6-10), 7-0
Doubles (Penn wins the doubles point)
1 - Pinsky/Eric Riley (Penn) def. Hill/Nelms, 8-3
2 - Bekker/Boym (Penn) def. Kahl/Lai, 8-4
3 - Fox/Brandon O'Gara (Penn) def. James/Ramsey Lemaich, 8-1

Singles
1 - Jason Pinsky (Penn) def. Nate Nelms (Navy), 6-2, 6-2
2 - Jonathan Boym (Penn) def. Jason Hill (Navy), 6-1, 6-1
3 - Mikhail Bekker (Penn) def. Johnny Waters (Navy), 6-1, 6-0
4 - Justin Fox (Penn) def. Adrian Lai (Navy), 6-3, 6-4
5 - Adam Schwartz (Penn) def. Stanley Kahl (Navy), 4-6, 6-0, 1-0 (10-8)
6 - Alex Vasin (Penn) def. Alex James (Navy), 6-2, 6-4