The men's tennis team boosted its confidence with its second dual-match win this fall, this one coming in convincing fashion over the Babson Beavers.
Yesterday afternoon, Tufts traveled with a nearly-full squad to Babson Park and easily handled the Beavers by an 8-1 score. Tufts is still without senior captain and top seed Will Fleder due to a quad injury, but despite his absence the team won all of its matches with the exception of No. 1 singles. Tufts dominated with an extremely young squad, as the Jumbos played four sophomores and three freshmen and won five of six doubles matches with little resistance. In singles alone, the Jumbos had six shutout sets, and in spots two through six, Tufts took 60 games and lost only seven.
Taking all three doubles matches was a more challenging feat, as Tufts freshmen Tony Carucci and Jake Fountain squeaked out a win at first doubles 8-6. At second doubles, sophomores Jon Trott and Brian Wilner dominated to win 8-3, but third doubles was another battle as sophomore Daniel Landers and freshman Jared Glick barely pulled out the win in a tiebreaker, 9-8.
The win moved the Jumbos to 2-0 in the fall season and sends them into the Wallach Invitational on Oct. 13-14 and for the spring season.
-by Tim Judson
