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Champion streak ends<br />

By Timothy Petropoulos<br />

Sports Editor<br />

Published: Monday, May 10, 2010<br />

For <strong>the</strong> first time <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> last seven seasons, <strong>the</strong> Bearcats will not end<br />

<strong>the</strong> season as champions.<br />

They lost to <strong>the</strong> No. 1 seed College of Staten Island, 5-2, last<br />

Tuesday night at <strong>the</strong> U.S. Tennis Center to end <strong>the</strong>ir streak of CUNY<br />

Athletic Conference championships at six.<br />

The Bearcats youth and <strong>in</strong>experience, comb<strong>in</strong>ed with <strong>in</strong>juries, was too<br />

much to overcome when fac<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> dom<strong>in</strong>ate Dolph<strong>in</strong>s<br />

Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Baruch Sports Information <strong>the</strong> No. 1 seed Dolph<strong>in</strong>s<br />

started by w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g all three doubles to jump out to a 3-0 advantage<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong> No. 4 seed Bearcats. But Baruch kept it close, forc<strong>in</strong>g<br />

tiebreakers <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> first and third sets.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> s<strong>in</strong>gles competition, Staten Island won at first s<strong>in</strong>gles and<br />

eventually cl<strong>in</strong>ched <strong>the</strong> victory by w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g at second s<strong>in</strong>gles.<br />

Denis Gostev<br />

The Men’s tennis team lost <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> CUNYAC<br />

championship for <strong>the</strong> first time <strong>in</strong> seven years, end<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir streak of championships.<br />

Baruch attempted a valiant comeback by w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g at fourth and sixth s<strong>in</strong>gles, but <strong>the</strong> match was halted because Staten<br />

Island already had enough po<strong>in</strong>ts to w<strong>in</strong>.<br />

“Don’t sleep [on Baruch],” said sophomore Steven Zak <strong>in</strong> an e-mail. “We’ll be back next year and start <strong>the</strong> streak all over<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>. I promise.”<br />

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