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Marie Fritzsche

Staff Writer

First-years help women's tennis dominate Wesleyan

Kristen Raverta ’06 and quad-captain Rachel Holt ’05 swept number one and two singles, 8-0, respectively. Two first-years, Alicia Menezes at third singles and Laura Stein at fifth singles, each dropped just one game to win 8-1. “It was great to see the freshmen come out fired up and play

Women's tennis: NCAA runners-up return to court

Kristen Raverta ’06 called last season “a year of achievement, both as a team and for many of the individual players as well.” Last fall, Amherst got off to a 4-0 start before falling in a close match to Williams College, to whom they placed second at the New England

Women's tennis earns convincing victory over Tufts, 7-2

Yesterday, Amherst won a crucial match, besting Tufts by a score of 7-2 despite being forced indoors due to inclement weather. The Jeffs’ record now stands at 12-3. Tufts is currently ranked third nationally and first in the Northeast region, considerably better than Amherst’s 11th national and fourth regional

Men's tennis team wins three in a row after dropping pair

Amherst began the spring on March 24 against a visiting Boston College squad. The Eagles defeated the Jeffs 5-2. Amherst’s two points came from co-captains Max Rettig ’05 and Rob Feeley ’04, who won the third and fifth singles matches, respectively. Second and fourth singles players Danny Babkes ’06

Women's tennis sweeps Bates, Brandeis; Jeffs improve to 10-2

“Brandeis and Bates were good matches to start off our season here in the Northeast, in that they weren’t too tough, but made us play,” said Hadley Miller ’06. For the first match of the day, the Jeffs faced the Brandeis Judges, who are ranked 25th nationally and seventh

Women's swim and dive takes seventh at nationals

Kenyon College won its third straight national title and 20th in 21 years with 507 points, and NESCAC champion Williams College placed fourth with 289. Amherst finished just ahead of ninth-place Middlebury College. “The women were on and off this weekend, but when they were on, they were really on,

Women's tennis wins three over Cali schools

Hadley Miller ’06 remarked that the trip was “successful in that we got off to a great start and beat the teams that we felt like we should’ve beaten.” On March 15, the women swept seventh-ranked Pomona-Pitzer College 9-0, without dropping a single set to the 4-5 Sagehens. Tristan