THE BASICS:
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- Location: Springfield, Mass. (Appleton Tennis Courts)
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- Scores: No. 29 MIT - 8, Springfield - 1
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- Records: MIT (13-3, 5-0 NEWMAC), Springfield (4-9, 3-2 NEWMAC)
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- The Lead: The No. 29 MIT men's tennis team earned their fourth straight win and moved to 5-0 in NEWMAC play with an 8-1 road win over Springfield on Monday afternoon.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
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- The Engineers swept doubles play with first-years
Adam Sun (Glendale, Ariz) and
Grant Gallagher (Irvine, Calif.) taking an 8-4 in No. 1 singles and first-years
Siddharth Marathe (Pune, India) and
Shrish Choudhary (Fremont, Calif.) wrapping it up with an 8-3 win in two doubles.
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- MIT swept courts 1-5 in singles action. Choudhary opened play with a 6-0, 6-2 win followed by a 6-1, 6-4 win in the third position by Gallagher.
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-Sophomore
Jeremy Yu (Coppell, Texas) earned a 6-2, 6-4 win in No. 3 singles, and sophomore
Nicholas Liu (San Diego, Calif.) took No. 5 singles 6-1, 6-1. Marathe won in No. 1 singles 6-3, 6-4.
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UP NEXT
- MIT continues NEWMAC play on Wednesday, April 17 as they will welcome Emerson to the DuPont Tennis Courts for a 3:30 p.m. contest.
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