Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Men's and Women's Tennis Teams Begin Second Weekend of Play
9/18/2008 8:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Sept. 18, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Following last weekend's Bloomsburg Invitational in Bloomsburg, Pa., Bucknell's men's and women's tennis teams will split-up this weekend for their next tournaments. The women's team will be hosting five other schools as part of the Bucknell Invitational from Friday, Sept. 19 through Sunday, Sept. 21, while the men's squad will travel to Providence, R.I., to participate in the 13-team Brown Invitational over the same span. The women's team won 24 of its 26 matches at the Bloomsburg Invitational, including an 18-1record in singles play, while the men's team finished with a 27-6 record in its matches, including 11-1 in doubles play.
Bucknell senior Ryan Sandburg set a program record for most career doubles wins with 72, finishing 3-0 over the weekend while paired with sophomore Anton Kovic. Sandburg entered this year tied with 2008 graduate Ira Reibeisen for first in that category. In addition to his three doubles wins, Sandburg went 3-0 in singles play and now has 123 combined all-time wins, second only to Reibeisen's 145.
Bucknell Invitational
The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, Loyola (Md.) Greyhounds, Mount Saint Mary's Mountaineers and Villanova Wildcats will be participating with the Bison in the women's Bucknell Invitational, starting Friday afternoon and continuing all day Saturday and Sunday.
Ashley Globerman, Lauren Lucido and Dara Dwojewski each went 3-0 in singles matches last weekend, while Dumi Iepuras, Liz Larkin and Camille Simonetti each finished 2-0. Courtney Casey won her only singles match, while Paulina Gamboa won against two of her three opponents.
In doubles action, Gamboa combined with Lucido to win a pair of matches, as did the duo of Dwojewski and Globerman. Iepuras and Larkin lost their match on Saturday, but Iepuras teamed with Casey, and Larkin paired with Simonetti to each win a match on Sunday.
Brown Invitational
It will be a crowded field at the Brown Invitational, with Bucknell joining Army, Colgate and Lehigh as representatives of the Patriot League. Brown's Ivy League rivals Dartmouth and Harvard will also be there, as will Boston College, Brandeis, Bryant, Connecticut, Fairleigh Dickinson and Villanova.
In addition to the strong play of Sandburg and Kovic, the Bucknell men's tennis team received three singles victories from Mark Malloy and two each from Jonathan Bednarek, Daniel Brenner and Zach Hascoe at last week's Bloomsburg Invitational. Freshmen Clark Bogle, Gregg Cohenca and Gregory Maxson each posted one singles win.
Bednarek and Bogle teamed together to win two of their three doubles matches, while Hascoe and Malloy, and Brenner and Cohenca, each won both of their doubles competitions.
Up Next
The women's tennis team will travel to West Point, N.Y., from Friday, Sept. 28 through Sunday, Sept. 30, to participate at the Eastern Championship, while the men's tennis team will be in Storrs, Conn., for the Connecticut Invitational.
