April 23, 2005

BALTIMORE, MD - The Johns Hopkins men's tennis team made history on Saturday when it clinched its first Centennial Conference regular-season men's tennis championship with a 5-2 win over Dickinson. The Blue Jays finished their season 13-2 overall and 8-0 in the conference, becoming the only team besides Washington Conference to go undefeated in the conference and to win the CC crown. Dickinson dropped to 11-6 overall and 4-3 in the conference.

Washington College had won the previous 11 conference championships, but Hopkins handed the Shoremen their first-ever CC loss, 4-3, earlier this year.

The Centennial Conference tournament is scheduled for April 29 through May 1 at Swarthmore and Haverford. For more information, visit www.centennial.org.

Singles#1) Chanont Vasoontara (JHU) d. Toni Bujas 6-0, 6-1#2) Kevin Ma (JHU) d. Whitney McFarlane 6-1, 6-3#3) Rob Dickinson (DC) d. Morgan Macdonald 6-3, 3-6, 6-4#4) Rich Rosenthal (DC) d. Rafael Roberti 6-4, 6-1#5) Matthew Naftilan (JHU) d. Zack Beck-Goss 6-4, 6-2#6) Justin Lee (JHU) d. Chris Beegle 6-3, 6-1
Doubles#1) Vasoontara/Naftilan (JHU)  d. Eric Schroeder/Jackson Parmenter 8-0#2) Roberti/Macdonald (JHU)  d. Rosenthal/Beck-Goss 8-3#3) Justin Belisario / Michael Kelly-Sell (JHU)  d. Aaron Sussman/Bujas 8-2