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Netters Overturn Turtles,
Elevate Record To 10-3

By FLETCHER THOMPSON

Tennis Team Boasted League Mark To 3-1 With 7-2 Victory Over Maryland

A lot more tanned and a
little more experienced after its
spring break tour of the South,
the tennis team returned to the
Perry Memorial Courts
yesterday to smother
Maryland, 7-2.

Following a pattern set in
their vacation performances,
the netmen were again paced
by the latter half of the singles
line-up and the revamped
doubles combinations, each of
whom swept their Terrapin
counterparts. Overall, the Cavs
dropped only five of twenty-three
sets in beating what
well-sunned Coach Gordon
Burris called a "good team."

In the number-one singles
match, Captain Doug
Waterman and the Terps' Bob
Garmany fought what was
perhaps the toughest match of
the afternoon with Garmany
coming out on top, 6-3, 6-4.
The number two singles match
featured a battle of the little
men between Jim Ratliff and
the Terps' Gary Silverman with
Ratliff cruising to a 6-1, 6-0
victory.

The last real contest of the
day was in the third singles,
where Rick Swift, recently
moved up from sixth, took the
first set, 6-4, but dropped the
last two to Neil Paterson.

The rest was all Virginia.
Number four man Hoyt
Murray and number five Don
Napier stroked their ways to
straight set wins over Jim
Wesner and Don Hicks, while
Frank Hatten disposed of John
Beck after letting a first set
tie-breaker slip past him.

Needing only one doubles
victory to clinch the match,
Virginia became downright
ruthless. The number one team
of Swift and Ratliff virtually
toyed with Beck and the
distraught Silverman to run
away with a 6-1 6-2 decision.

The second tandem of
Hatten and Murray outgunned
Garmany and Hicks, 6-3, 6-4,
while Napier and Frank
Spratlin had the most relaxing
time of all, demolishing
Paterson and Wesner, 6-0, 6-2.

Traveling with the baseball
team in its Southern swing, the
netmen recorded a 4-3 record
over the break against some of
the best competition in the
nation.

They began with a 6-0
whitewashing of Pfeiffer
College in a match that was
terminated by a tight travel
schedule. The Cavs continued
with an 8-1 rout of Jacksonville
on the following day.

The team's first defeat of
the season came at the hands
of a highly-regarded Florida
squad, which nosed out the
Cavs, 5-4, in a match that was
closer than the score would
indicate.

The next day, a strong
Florida State team combined
with an equally obnoxious
crowd to send Virginia down
to its second 5-4 loss.

After a day off, the
racketmen journeyed
northward to open their ACC
schedule against Clemson.
Nursing four sprained ankles
and competing on three hours
sleep, they again dropped a 5-4
verdict but came back in their
last two appearances to down
N.C. State, 8-1, and Duke 6-3.
Their record now stands at 10-3
with a 3-1 league mark.