THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Brunswick, Maine (Bowdoin)
 
- The Lead: Seniors Daniel Papacica (Carmel, Calif.) and Derek Shen (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) of the MIT men's tennis team competed in both singles and doubles action at the ITA Regionals that were hosted in Brunswick, Maine on the campus of Bowdoin College.
  
HOW IT HAPPENED IN DOUBLES ACTION:
 
- In the round of 64 Shen and Papacica took down Harry Portnoy and Max Lustgarten of Wesleyan, 8-6. The duo fell in the round of 32 to ninth-seed Sujit Chepuri and Jakob Esterowitz of Amherst, 8-5.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED IN SINGLES ACTION:
 
- Papacica fell to Chepuri in the round of 64, 6-3, 6-2.
 
- After dropping the first set against Nathan Jackson of Middlebury, Shen took the next two sets,  6-2, 6-2 to advance to the round of 32.
 
- In the round of 32, Shen fell to Harrison Collomb of Wesleyan in straight-sets, 7-5, 6-3.
 
UP NEXT:

- MIT returns to the courts next weekend for the three-day MIT Invitational that begins on Friday, October 7.

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