April 10, 2002
WC Cruises Past Terror,
Yields Total of Three Games

CHESTERTOWN, MD -- The seventh-ranked Washington College Shoremen improved to 8-3 overall and 4-0 in Centennial Conference play with a 7-0 sweep of visiting Western Maryland today at Schottland Tennis Pavilion. The Shoremen, now 68-0 all-time in Centennial play, dropped just three games the entire match.

In doubles, sophomore Peter Taylor (Canton, CT/Canton) and Freshman Rafael Martins (Vitoria, Brazil/Prof. Anibal de Freitas/Cristelo) won 8-1 at No. 1. The other two doubles matches were 8-0 sweeps, with junior Louis Blanchette (Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada/Mathieu-Martin) and freshman Asfand Farouk (Karachi, Pakistan/City School) winning at No. 2 and junior Alvaro Prado (Guatemala City, Guatemala/Liceo Javier) and senior Tomas Budimir (Split, Croatia/Tourist Catering School) winning at No. 3.

WC won four of the singles matches by identical 6-0, 6-0 scores with Taylor doing so at No. 1, Martins at No. 2, Blanchette at No. 4, and Prado at No. 5. Farouk won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 3 and Budimir won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 6 to round out singles play.

The Shoremen return to action Saturday with a 12:00 p.m. Centennial match at home against 25th-ranked Swarthmore.

Match Results

Singles
Player (School)
Player (School)
Score
No. 1 Peter Taylor (WC)
def.
 Scott Mahoney (WM)
6-0, 6-0
No. 2 Rafael Martins (WC)
def.
 David Johnson (WM)
6-0, 6-0
No. 3 Asfand Farouk (WC)
def.
 Ben Denenberg (WM)
6-0, 6-1
No. 4 Louis Blanchette (WC)
def.
 Chad Lovett (WM)
6-0, 6-0
No. 5 Alvaro Prado (WC)
def.
 Craig Johnson (WM)
6-0, 6-0
No. 6 Tomas Budimir (WC)
def.
 Chris Taylor (WM)
6-1, 6-0
Doubles
Team (School)
Team (School)
Score
No. 1 Taylor/Martins (WC)
def.
 Mahoney/Johnson (WM)
8-1
No. 2 Farouk/Blanchette (WC)
def.
 Chris Taugher/Ben Graff (WM)
8-0
No. 3 Prado/Budimir (WC)
def.
 Lovett/Denenberg (WM)
8-0

 

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