WALTHAM, Mass. – In a marathon match that took nearly five
hours to play and spanned two venues, the Brandeis men's tennis
team fell to 26th-ranked MIT today, 5-4. the Judges fall
to 8-8 as they head to Pittsburgh for the University Athletic
Association championships at Carnegie Mellon, while the Engineers
improve to 11-1 on the campaign.
Brandeis started the match quickly, winning two of three doubles
matches. Juniors Simon Miller (Plantation,
Fla./Plantation) and Nick White (Wellesley,
Mass./Wellesley) were 8-5 winners at No. 1 singles for the Judges,
while rookie Fred Rozenshteyn (Fair Lawn,
N.J./Fair Lawn) and sophomore Mike Tatarsky
(Wayne, N.J./Wayne Valley) needed a tie-breaker at No. 3, winning
9-8 (7-5) to give Brandeis a 2-1 lead headed into singles action.
MITs lone doubles point came from brothers Larry and Kevin Pang
(Torrance, Calif./California Acad. of Math and Science), who took
an 8-3 win at No. 2.
In singles action, Rozenshteyn gave Brandeis an early edge with
a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 5, while rookie Tymor Hamamsy (New York,
N.Y./Saint Ann's) got the Engineers on the board with a 6-3, 6-3
win at No. 6.
Miller pushed Brandeis to the edge of victory with a 6-2, 6-3,
triumph at second singles, but Larry Pang and rookie Brian Oldfield
(St. Thomas, V.I./Antilles) won at No. 3 and 4 – 7-6, 6-1 for
Pang and 6-1, 6-4 for Oldfield, to set up the decisive match at the
top of the line-up.
Kevin Pang took the first set from White, 6-4, but the Brandeis
player answered with a 6-2 win in the second. In the third set, the
two were on serve for the first four games before Pang broke to go
ahead, 3-2. White broke right back to even the match once again,
but Pang responded with his second break of the set to take a 4-3
lead. The eighth game of the set proved to be the decisive one.
Pang had six opportunities to win the match on his advantage, but
each time, White was able to force the game back to deuce.
White had to use a medical timeout at the third deuce during the
game, returning to the court with a broken racket string, but still
battled back to force two more deuces after returning to the proper
racket. On his seventh attempt, Pang was finally able to
consolidate the break at 5-3. By then, the court was too dark to
continue, so the teams adjourned to the Waltham Athletic Club to
finish, and Pang broke White at 30-40 to win the match.
#26 MIT
5, Brandeis University 4
Apr 20, 2010 at Waltham, Mass.
| Singles
competition
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| 1.
Kevin Pang (MIT) def. Nick White (BRMTEN) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
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| 2.
Simon Miller (BRMTEN) def. Ken Van Tilburg (MIT) 6-2, 6-3
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| 3.
Larry Pang (MIT) def. Steven Milo (BRMTEN) 7-6, 6-1
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| 4.
Brian Oldfield (MIT) def. Dave Yovanoff (BRMTEN) 6-1, 6-4
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| 5. Fred
Rozenshteyn (BRMTEN) def. Matt Skalak (MIT) 6-4, 6-4
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| 6.
Tymor Hamamsy (MIT) def. Seth Rogers (BRMTEN) 6-3, 6-3
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| Match
Notes
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| MIT
11-1; National ranking #26
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| Brandeis University
8-8
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