Putterman vs. Burgin in single final tomorrow in central. Predictable.
Heerboth/Turlington vs. Bartashevich/Ventura-Creusse (Earlham). Anyone have that one?
La Cava upset by Malesovas (who?) in Northwest. No Tolman for Whitman, but transfer Riggs doing well. Semifinals tomorrow.
La Cava/Rivers vs. Tesmond/Riggs in final.
Heerboth and Turlington didn’t come out of nowhere. Won the B draw at the Kenyon Tournament and were the #10 seed. Beat 2 Wash U teams along the way, including Putterman/Putterman 8-6. If you go by Seeds, they are the 3rd best team from Kenyon, but beat the #1 team for Kenyon. The bigger suprise is the Earlham team. Earlham isn’t even one of the big 6 schools in that region and they make the final.
What a big acheivement for their program. Their team went to the NCAA’s last year. Up and coming team?????
I mean, the Earlham team was definitely more of a surprise, but I’m a little champion-centric. Heerboth and Turlington came out of nowhere. Heerboth didn’t even play doubles for Kenyon last year, and, as you said, they were supposed to be the 3rd best doubles team on Kenyon. Doubles tournaments are so weird sometimes.
If you look at the seedings from the Kenyon invite then they were viewed as the 5th best team from Kenyon just a week before the ITA
Central region ITA is a grind. Draw of 128 with 2 top 5 teams and at least 6 ranked teams that I can think of off the top of my head
Putterman repeats with a 2 and 3 victory over Burgin.
Heerboth and Turlington out of f***ing nowhere for the doubles title.
Rivers/La Cava win (6-0, 6-2). Malesovas wins singles (64, 75)
Where is Razumovsky (sp?) from Kenyon.
A comment from about a week ago indicated that he’s injured. Too bad. Perhaps would have made things interesting.