Andreas Jeninga/The Hoya Senior co-captain Dennis Cravedi lost in the No. 1 singles position 6-3, 7-5 in the team’s 7-0 loss to St. John’s last Saturday, ensuring that Georgetown will not qualify for the Big East tournament.
The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams finished their seasons on a disappointing note last weekend. Coming off wins over Howard the week before, the teams were looking to close out the year with wins on the road. Victory was just not in the cards for the Hoyas, however, who dropped all four of their weekend matches.
At Syracuse and Seton Hall last weekend, the women fell in both matches 7-0. The men also dropped both matches on the weekend, 7-0 and 5-2, to St. John’s and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, respectively.
On Saturday the women traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., to face the Orangewomen. Facing a stronger team, the Hoyas were not able to win even a set. Georgetown dropped all three doubles matches by large margins and the closest they could come to a win in singles was a 6-4 first set loss in the No. 1 match by Georgetown senior Jordan Botjer to Syracuse senior Trine Lise Juliussen.
The men, facing St. John’s in Villanova, Pa., were also shut out on Saturday. The Red Storm were on a seven-game winning streak and the Hoyas became their eighth-straight victim with the loss. It was a close match, but things did not fall the Hoyas’ way all afternoon. The men, like the women, were blanked in singles and were unable to win even a set. Freshmen Kevin Killeavy and Scott Faust picked up the Hoyas only win, with an 8-2 victory at No. 2 doubles.
On Sunday the Hoyas did not fare much better. At Seton Hall, the women were again shut out, 7-0. Sophomore Kristin Dew and freshman Eileen Boyle were able to win one set each on the day, but fell in third set tiebreaks to drop their overall matches while the rest of the team fell in straight sets.
“The idea this year was that we needed to get better each week,” Head Coach Rich Bausch said of the women’s team’s goal for the season, “and that was our primary achievement. Our two wins were not that significant, as far as showing the team’s ability, but we improved from where we started in January, and that was the point.”
The men, at nearby UMBC, were finally able to pick up wins, but still fell on the day 5-2. After winning five straight doubles points, the Hoyas dropped their second doubles match in as many days. In singles Georgetown fared only slightly better. Faust won his No. 2 singles match 6-4, 6-2, while sophomore Eric Conrad picked up a win 6-2, 6-4, but it was not enough to push the team past the Retrievers.
“We’ve had a tough season with a lot of close matches that haven’t gone our way,” senior co-captain Dennis Cravedi said. “But we have a really good foundation and next year we have strong returning players and good players coming in, so the team should only improve.”
The women finished the season at 2-17, while the men closed out the year at 6-15. Neither team will qualify for the Big East Championships.