This past weekend the men’s team travelled to Middlebury for their first tournament of the year. The highlight for the Bobcat singles play was Dylan Reffe (pronounced reef). Dylan advanced two rounds before he lost a close match to Middlebury’s Chris Frost in the semifinal round. Doubles play for the bobcats was very strong overall. In B Flight doubles Dylan Reffe and first-year Henry Lee got on the board as they overcame some first match jitters and took out a Brandeis pairing 8-2. In their second round they played the eventual finalists from Trinity and lost a close 8-4 decision.
In Flight A, all three bobcat pairings advanced to the quarterfinals. Timmy Berg and Matt Bettles took out the #1 Brandeis pairing 8-5 before falling 8-6 to the eventual finalists from Middlebury. Peter Yanofsky and Jeff Beaton played high energy doubles and gritted out their first round 8-5 over #1 Trinity pairing and highly ranked Anson McCook and Ned Mandel. They lost a close battle 8-6 in their second round to a Middlebury pairing.
Kyle DeSisto and first-year Pierre Planche also got a big win, taking out Skidmore’s #1 team 8-4 before falling to the #1 Middlebury team and eventual champions 9-7. Overall the doubles was very strong. We played with lots of energy and played our opponents dead even. The Bobcats will travel to Williams this weekend to play in the ITA Regional Tournament.
