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Boys Tennis Finishes 3rd at KIT
The weekend of April 5--6, the young Hopkins tennis team traveled up to Kingswood--Oxford School in West Hartford, Ct., to participate in the Kingswood Invitational Tennis Tournament, an eight team event featuring some of the top boarding and day schools in the Northeast. Our team wound up finishing in 3rd place, with Hotchkiss School winning the tournament and Deerfield Academy gaining the runner-up position. Choate--Rosemary Hall, who had defeated Hopkins in a scrimmage earlier in the week, finished in 4th place.
The highlight of the tournament for the Hopkins team was having its #1 doubles team of 10th grader Bobby Berkowitz and 11th grader Nicolas Scholz win the #1 doubles championship, defeating the top seeded team of Matt Buckley and Franco Milo of Deerfield Academy in the semi-finals, 3--6, 6--3, 6--2, and then the second seeded team of Greg Maxson and Robert Lightbourn of Hotchkiss in the finals, 6--0, 6--3.
The best finish of any of the Hopkins singles players was by eighth grader Brian Astrachan at #4 singles, who defeated the second seeded player, James Lightbourn, from Hotchkiss, 6--2, 7--5 in the quarter finals, and Colin Schlank from Hall High School in the semi-finals 6--2, 6--0, before being edged by 12th grader and number one seed Franco Nilo from Deerfield in a very well played and hard fought final, 7--6, 7--5.
Other placers for Hopkins were as follows: Bobby Berkowitz, #1 singles = 5th place; Nicolas Scholz, #2 singles = 4th place; Jerrod Dobkin, #3 singles = 5th place, and Marty Keil & David Zackheim, #2 doubles, 4th place.
Next on the agenda are what should be closely contended dual meets with Westminster School (away) on Tuesday and with Kent School (home) on Wednesday.
With best regards,
William L. Ewen
The weekend of April 5--6, the young Hopkins tennis team traveled up to Kingswood--Oxford School in West Hartford, Ct., to participate in the Kingswood Invitational Tennis Tournament, an eight team event featuring some of the top boarding and day schools in the Northeast. Our team wound up finishing in 3rd place, with Hotchkiss School winning the tournament and Deerfield Academy gaining the runner-up position. Choate--Rosemary Hall, who had defeated Hopkins in a scrimmage earlier in the week, finished in 4th place.
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The highlight of the tournament for the Hopkins team was having its #1 doubles team of 10th grader Bobby Berkowitz and 11th grader Nicolas Scholz win the #1 doubles championship, defeating the top seeded team of Matt Buckley and Franco Milo of Deerfield Academy in the semi-finals, 3--6, 6--3, 6--2, and then the second seeded team of Greg Maxson and Robert Lightbourn of Hotchkiss in the finals, 6--0, 6--3.
The best finish of any of the Hopkins singles players was by eighth grader Brian Astrachan at #4 singles, who defeated the second seeded player, James Lightbourn, from Hotchkiss, 6--2, 7--5 in the quarter finals, and Colin Schlank from Hall High School in the semi-finals 6--2, 6--0, before being edged by 12th grader and number one seed Franco Nilo from Deerfield in a very well played and hard fought final, 7--6, 7--5.
Other placers for Hopkins were as follows: Bobby Berkowitz, #1 singles = 5th place; Nicolas Scholz, #2 singles = 4th place; Jerrod Dobkin, #3 singles = 5th place, and Marty Keil & David Zackheim, #2 doubles, 4th place.
Next on the agenda are what should be closely contended dual meets with Westminster School (away) on Tuesday and with Kent School (home) on Wednesday.
With best regards,
William L. Ewen
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