BALTIMORE--No. 31 Swarthmore College Men's Tennis returned to the Centennial Conference Championship on Sunday for a re-match with No. 14 Johns Hopkins University. The Garnet battled and had several close matches with the Blue Jays but ultimately fell 5-0.
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Johns Hopkins has now won the Centennial Championship 11 straight seasons.
John Larkina and
Blake Oetting played the tightest doubles match of the day taking six games in the 8-6 loss.
Ari Cepelewicz and
Thomas Vernier's match at No. 2 doubles went down 8-5, and
Mark Fallati and
Josh Powell dropped No. 1 doubles 8-2.
In singles,
Ari Cepelewicz's No. 5 match ended 6-3, 6-1 and
Michael Song fell 6-3, 7-5 in sixth singles.
In the top singles flight, Fallati won his first set 6-0, but dropped the next set 6-2. He led in the third set 2-1 when the match concluded.
John Larkin fell 6-4 in the first set of second singles but rallied to take the next set 6-1. In fourth singles,
Josh Powell forced a tiebreak game in set one but fell 7-4 in the breaker.
Swarthmore wraps up the season with a 12-12 record and graduates seniors
James Chen,
John Larkin and
Thomas Vernier.