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By 5-4 Score

Terrapins Fall To Netters

Second-Year Man Jeff Podesta Displays Strong Forehand Style In Early Season Action

Coach Burris' Netters Upped Record To 14-2 By Virtue Of 5-4 Win Over University Of Maryland

Abandoning the compatible
Lady Astor Courts, the tennis team
ventured to College Park, Maryland,
to do battle with the Terrapins. Not
about to let Maryland's fast
hard-surfaced courts stifle their
determination, Coach Gordy Burris'
netters tripped the Terps, 5-4,
despite concern and speculation
that the University of Maryland
might just topple the winning
Cavaliers

Maryland's Dave Wenchen drew
first blood in the match, slipping by
big Mike Eikenberry by an 8-6, 6-2
score. Wenchen was able to return
many passing shots off of
Eikenberry's service and
consequently pinned down the
Terps first point.

Jeff Podesta, playing at number
two, whipped Fulton Triss 8-6,
6-3, to put Virginia on the
scoreboard. "Po" hit some
accurate passing shots and went to
lofty lobs when necessary to rally
from a 3-5, match point deficit in
the first set.

Andy Scheinman rallied from a
4-5 deficit himself in the number
three slot to defeat Maryland's
Gene Spring, 8-6, 6-3.

Virginian John Winter nailed
Wade Bucklew down at number
four, 6-4, 6-2. Winter's big game
tactics worked well on the Terps'
hard courts, and he simply
overpowered his opponent.

In perhaps the key match of the
afternoon, Biff Cooper deployed
merciless stamina in downing
Donald Hicks in a three-set
marathon, 7-9, 9-7, 6-3. Coach
Burris labelled it as the "turning
point in the entire match." Biff,
seemingly not feeling the import of
this statement, skipped dinner to
run three miles upon conclusion of
the match.

Doug Waterman, who has only
one defeat on his record, could
never quite adjust his steady clay
court game to the hard surface, and
he fell to Maryland's Andy Cohen.

Leading 4-2 after the singles
competition, Virginia clinched the
win on a Winter-Scheinman routing
of Cohen and Patterson, 6-2, 6-4.