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Bloomsburg Invitational
Bucknell Tennis Enjoys Success In Day One At Bloomsburg
9/8/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Sept. 8, 2007
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The Bucknell men's and women's tennis team opened the 2007 fall season in day one at the Bloomsburg Invitational Saturday. On the men's side, the Bison won three doubles matches and 11 singles matches. For the women, Bucknell recorded three doubles wins and four singles wins. Bucknell faced Bloomsburg, Binghamton, and Niagara in the tournament.
On the men's side, senior Ben Young (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) paired with freshman Mark Malloy (Bronxville, N.Y./Hackley School) to defeat Zenaty and Phillips of Bloomsburg, 8-4. Also in doubles, junior Ryan Sandburg (Orange, Calif./Canyon) and junior Jonathan Brenner (Manhasset, N.Y./Chaminade) topped Roman Silin and Marc Dickinson of Niagara 9-8, 7-3, while sophomore Zach Hascoe (Greenwich, Conn./Brunswick) and Daniel Bednarek (Haworth, N.J./Bergen Catholic) defeated Nick Bolea and Steve Kopf of Niagara, 8-3.
In singles, Hascoe went on to pick up a win over Bloomsburg's Chow, 6-7, 6-1,10-8 and Brenner defeated Nuhfer of Bloomsburg, 6-1, 6-3. Bednarek topped Hummel of Bloomsburg, 6-1, 6-2 and Sandburg won 3-6, 7-6, 10-3 against Dickinson of Niagara. Senior Ira Reibeisen (Armonk, N.Y./Rye Country Day Upper School) won his match over Chow of Bloomsburg, 6-4, 6-3.
Sophomore Peter Eyvazzadeh (Bethlehem, Pa./Moravian Academy) tallied two wins over Whitely of Bloomsburg, 7-5, 6-4, and McClurkin of Bloomsburg, 2-6, 6-1, 10-4. Young topped Glubo of Bloomsburg, 6-1, 6-3 and Collin Laffy of Niagara, 6-4, 6-3. Malloy went 6-0, 6-3, over Laffy of Niagara and 6-4, 6-0, over Phillips of Bloomsburg.
For the women, sophomore Tania Varela (Quito, Ecuador/Alliance Academy) and freshman Lauren Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's School for Girls) paired to defeat Anna Edelman and Nicole Scorongella of Binghamton 9-7. Freshman Dara Dwojewski (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) and senior captain Caitlin Baffa (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills High School East) defeated Fisher and Manca of Bloomsburg, 8-2. Additionally, sophomore Kirstyn Sotak (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Hathaway Brown) and sophomore Renee Weissend (Honeoye, N.Y./Honeoye Falls-Lima) topped Carney and Cunningham from Bloomsburg, 8-4.
In singles, Lucido went on to defeat Hasyn of Bloomsburg 6-3, 6-1, and Dwojewski won her match over Carney of Bloomsburg, 6-0, 6-2. Baffa also picked up a win over Fisher of Bloomsburg, 6-1, 6-1, and Grossman topped Manca of Bloomsburg, 6-0, 6-0.
The Bloomsburg Invitational will continue tomorrow, Sept. 9 and will run all day.
