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Vicious Cavalier Racketeers
Bombard W&L Netmen, 9-0

By BILL BERNO

Continuing its domination of
in-state competition, the
Cavalier tennis squad rolled
over an outmanned Washington
and Lee team in a match
played at the Homestead resort
in Hot Springs, Va.

The team has won over 180
matches from Virginia
opponents in the past four
years while losing only four.
Coach Gordon Burris has
already indicated that he is
going for the shutout today
when his players take on
William and Mary at 2 p.m. on
the Perry Foundation courts.
He said, "If we win, it will be
because of our depth. I'm
going to go for a shutout, even
though their team is stronger
now than when we shut them
out last year."

Shutouts are quite common
for this year's team, though, as
they accomplished the feat
again against W&L. Losing only
one set in the process, the
netmen hardly broke sweat in
crushing the Generals

Captain Doug Waterman set
the trend when he dumped
Sandy Lawrence, 6-1, 6-4.
Number two singles player Jim
Ratliff bumped off Jeff
Driscoll, 6-2, 6-4. Rick Swift
beat Stan Taylor, 6-0, 6-4.

Hoyt Murray waltzed past
Tim Thompson, 6-1, 6-3, and
number five man Frank Hatten
defeated John Embree, 6-4,
6-0. Peter Adolph completed a
sweep of the singles by
slaughtering Warren Davis, 6-1,
6-2.

The Cavalier players
stopped laughing long enough
to finish the destruction in the
doubles competition. The team
of Ratliff and Swift beat
Lawrence and Driscoll, 6-4,
6-1. Adolph teamed with
Hatten to defeat Taylor and
Washbyan, 7-5, 6-7, 6-2. After
that marathon, Waterman and
Irvin Cantor decided to end the
affair quickly, and they did so
by dumping Walker and
Wyckoff, 6-4, 6-2.

Mr. Burris described his
team's play as "excellent", and
pointed out that despite a 13-5
record, his team has to be a
strong favorite in the upcoming
state tournament to be held at
VPI. Considering the fact that
the squad has not lost a match
to state competition this year,
his claim seems to be justified.