The Cavalier daily. :: Tuesday, April 8, 1969 :: University of Virginia Library

Of five previously undefeated
singles players first-year man Doug
Waterman was the only Cavalier
netter to survive the weekend's
doubleheader and salvage a perfect
6-0 individual mark. Coach Burris'
record dropped to 4-2 as Virginia
suffered consecutive losses to
Harvard and Clemson.

Playing in Boston-like 40 degree
weather, Harvard's Ivy League
Tri-champions took two crucial
matches at the third and fifth
positions and coasted to a 4-2
advantage in singles play.

Waterman wasted no time in
disposing of his opponent, John
Nielson, 6-2, 6-2. Playing like a
machine, Burris' premiere number
six man consistently intimidated
Nielson with deep forehand drives
to prevent any Harvard offensive.

Meanwhile on the number one
court Cavalier Captain Mike
Eikenberry met with some talented
opposition in 6′5″ John Levin.
After dropping the first set, 4-6,
Eikenberry rallied only to find
himself baffled by Levin's booming
serve and powerful net play. All it
took was one service break for
Levin to wind it up, 6-4.

On the next court Jeff Podesta,
undefeated in four matches, was
stroking his way to an upset over
chunky Rocky Jarvis, but as soon
as the Harvard player started to
attack the net he began to win
points. The first set went to Jarvis,
7-5, and Podesta lost his
momentum and the second, 0-6.

Andy Scheinman was put on the
defensive when Harvard's
Cambridge Oxford won the first-set
marathon, 10-8. The second set
proved fatal as Scheinman couldn't
get in the groove. The result was a
4-6 loss.

At the number four spot Virginia's
John Winter split sets with Jim
Terrell, and then came through
with a 6-4 third set to emerge
victorious. Combining a strong
service and a cool head, Winter
upped his seasonal record to 5-0.

Biff Cooper's number five match
was the heartbreaker for the Cavaliers.
Harvard's Tom Washauer rallied
in the third set to fight off
match point at 4-5 and go on to
take the decision, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.

In some of the best doubles play
of the year Winter and Eikenberry
held their ground against Levin and
Jarvis for two sets splitting 4-6, 6-2;
however, the pressure was too
much in the third as the mustached
Harvard duo polished off the
Cavaliers, 6-0. Winter was outstanding
in putting away several seemingly
impossible shots while sprawling
over the court a la Chuck McKinney.

With the score at 2-5 the
outcome of the last two doubles
matches was relatively inconsequential.
John Mertz played admirably
as he teamed with Biff Cooper to
down Nielson and Washauer, 6-3,
3-6, 6-3. Scheinman and Bob Kain
fell to Oxford and Terrell, 3-6, 5-7.

On Saturday the temperature
hospitably rose to 65 to accommodate
the Cavaliers' visitors from
South Carolina - the undefeated
Clemson Tigers.

David Cooper used his 6′4″
frame to cover the court flawlessly
against Eikenberry to the tune of a
6-4, 6-2 whipping.

In the skirmish at the second
singles spot Greece's Nicky Keuidis
extended Jeff Podesta to 7-5 in the
first set, but could not overcome
Podesta's consistent baseline game.
The second set was a quick 6-3
decision, which gave the Cavaliers
their first singles victory.

The only other netter to tally a
win was dependable Doug Waterman,
who chalked up his sixth of
the year with a sound 6-0, 6-4
thrashing of Eddi Shelton at the
sixth position.

Andy Scheinamn, still recovering
from his Harvard defeat, could
not quite handle Sarfraz Rahim's
Pakistani twist as he dropped his
match, 2-6, 3-6.

On the fourth court colorful
Cavalier John Winter matched wits
with yellow-and-orange-clad,
long-locked Gordon Hebert. Had
Hebert not worn a red scarf about
his head to prevent his hair from
blinding him, the outcome might
have been different, but as it was
Winter fell to the talented Floridian,
0-6, 4-6.

Competition was fierce on the
fifth court where second-year Cavalier
Biff Cooper took on the '68
ACC number five singles champ,
Jim Poling, with an aggressive air.
Cooper's deeply-placed ground
strokes were effective, but the more
experienced Poling outlasted Biff,
9-7, 6-0.

In a 2-4 predicament the Cavaliers
again needed three doubles
victories to take the match. Only
the Mertz-Cooper tandem was able
to provide a win. The young
Virginia players blasted the international
duo of Keuidis and Rahim,
6-3, 8-6.

The Clemson Tigers, favored to
win the ACC championship, defeated
the Cavaliers, 6-3. However,
Coach Burris was "pleased" with
the performance against the team
that had routed Harvard, 7-2, and
remarked that this was the first
time in his career at Virginia that
the Cavaliers have won two singles
matches from Clemson.