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Hopkins makes Tennis History in Winning the Kingswood Invitational for the first time!
The 4 top players on the Hopkins Tennis team--senior co-captains Alex Zackheim and Lenny Kolstad and sophomores Phil Bernasek and Dan Spinelli--travelled to Kingswood--Oxford School on the weekend of April 9--10 to take part in an 8--team tournament involving some of the most prominent private secondary schools in the Northeast. For the first time ever, Hopkins emerged as the winning team of this prestigious event with a score of 25 points. Lawrenceville School of New Jersey finished second with 23 points, followed by Choate--Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford with 17 points. Other schools taking part were Hotchkiss School, Westminster School, Deerfield Academy, Hall School, and host school Kingswood--Oxford. The tournament is dedicated to the memory of Tim Berman (K--O ''78) who proved to be an outstanding player and sportsman who went on to Swarthmore College and excelled there in varsity tennis for two year before unfortunately succumbing to cancer in 1981.
Individual winners for Hopkins were Phil Bernasek at #2 singles (who defeated Lawrenceville opponent Mike Lord in the finals 6--0, 6--0), Lenny Kolstad at #3 singles (who defeated Lawrenceville opponent Kevin Huang 6--4, 6--4 in the finals), and our #1 doubles team of Alex Zackheim and Lenny Kolstad (who clinched the Hopkins team tournament victory by dispatching Choate--Rosemary Hall's #1 team in the finals, 6--3, 6--1 in a match that was much more fiercely contended than the score indicates).
The Hopkins #2 doubles team of Phil Bernasek and Dan Spinelli reached the finals by tripping up a Hotchkiss team composed of Jamie Sterne and Lucas Loeffler 6--4, 7--6, but then eventually succumbed in three hard fought sets in the finals to the Lawrenceville team of Charlie Bakke and Leo Wang, 6--4, 4--6, 6--3.
From Coach Bill Ewen
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The 4 top players on the Hopkins Tennis team--senior co-captains Alex Zackheim and Lenny Kolstad and sophomores Phil Bernasek and Dan Spinelli--travelled to Kingswood--Oxford School on the weekend of April 9--10 to take part in an 8--team tournament involving some of the most prominent private secondary schools in the Northeast. For the first time ever, Hopkins emerged as the winning team of this prestigious event with a score of 25 points. Lawrenceville School of New Jersey finished second with 23 points, followed by Choate--Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford with 17 points. Other schools taking part were Hotchkiss School, Westminster School, Deerfield Academy, Hall School, and host school Kingswood--Oxford. The tournament is dedicated to the memory of Tim Berman (K--O ''78) who proved to be an outstanding player and sportsman who went on to Swarthmore College and excelled there in varsity tennis for two year before unfortunately succumbing to cancer in 1981.
Individual winners for Hopkins were Phil Bernasek at #2 singles (who defeated Lawrenceville opponent Mike Lord in the finals 6--0, 6--0), Lenny Kolstad at #3 singles (who defeated Lawrenceville opponent Kevin Huang 6--4, 6--4 in the finals), and our #1 doubles team of Alex Zackheim and Lenny Kolstad (who clinched the Hopkins team tournament victory by dispatching Choate--Rosemary Hall's #1 team in the finals, 6--3, 6--1 in a match that was much more fiercely contended than the score indicates).
The Hopkins #2 doubles team of Phil Bernasek and Dan Spinelli reached the finals by tripping up a Hotchkiss team composed of Jamie Sterne and Lucas Loeffler 6--4, 7--6, but then eventually succumbed in three hard fought sets in the finals to the Lawrenceville team of Charlie Bakke and Leo Wang, 6--4, 4--6, 6--3.
From Coach Bill Ewen
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