Sage College started the season strong with five straight wins before losing two matches – first to Bard, then to Plattsburgh State. The season started off with a pair of 6-3 wins against Johnson State and Bay Path. The first away match was an 8-1 win over Yeshiva at the Binghamton Racquet Club in Edgewater, NJ. That match was also their league opener and so far their only league match. Player highlights include #1 Kirsten Ackerman (Guilderland) is 6-0 in singles and 5-2 in doubles so far this season. Isabella Pericone of Burnt Hills is unbeaten at #3 singles with a perfect 7-0 record. In doubles, she teamed with Mackenzie Riley – Albany High School – for a 5-2 record. Pericone and Riley are the #1 doubles team. Mackenzie also has a perfect 7-0 record at #2 singles. The next home match for Sage Women is 1:00 on September 29th when they host Farmingdale at the Prospect Park tennis courts.
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RPI Mens tennis played the Flower City Tournament earlier this month. We wrote about that tournament previously. RPI plays Union College on Sunday at 1:00 pm at the Sharp Courts. RPI Women have a 9-0 win over Hartwick and a 8-1 win over Plattsburgh. Jessica Buckley – Notre Dame of Utica – teamed with Katrina Bohnhorst for an 8-1 doubles win in the Hartwick match. Emily Laurilliard played #4 singles against Hartwick and won 6-1, 6-0. In doubles she teamed with Casey Olsen for an 8-2 win. Against Plattsburgh they won 8-5 while Emily won her singles match 6-0, 6-0.
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On Monday, the Liberty League recognized six Skidmore College student-athletes for their performances during the past week.
Men’s tennis swept the weekly awards as Alec Hoblitzell earned Performer of the Week and Kit Green-Sanderson was named Rookie of the Week. Hoblitzell won the B singles flight at the Middlebury Invitational, defeating Musyoka Mbithi of Trinity in the final 7-6(2), 6-2. Green-Sanderson won the D singles flight and also reached the finals of the B doubles flight with teammate Nick Tong. The Thoroughbreds return to action on Saturday at Trinity (CT)al.
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Middlebury, Vt. – The Skidmore College men’s tennis team opened its fall season with a strong showing at the Middlebury Invitational.
Sophomore Alec Hoblitzell and freshman Kit Green-Sanderson won their respective flights, while other Thoroughbreds put together strong performances in singles and doubles action.
Hoblitzell won the B singles flight, defeating Musyoka Mbithi of Trinity 7-6 (2), 6-2 in the finals. He didn’t drop a set in the flight as he defeated Peter Yanofsky of Bates, Ford Traff of Trinity and Andrew Lutz of Tufts on his way to the victory.
Green-Sanderson won D singles flight, defeating Matthew Zuckerman of Brandeis, Dave Myers of Trinity and Christian Phelps of Vassar before earning a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Trinity’s Cam Smith in the final.
In the doubles B flight, Nick Tong and Green-Sanderson reached the final before falling to Henry Lee and Pierre Planche 8-4.
A native of San Diego, Calif., Kim saw his first collegiate action over the weekend and posted a 3-0 singles record and a 2-1 doubles mark in the season-opening Flower City Tournament in Rochester. He played third singles and second doubles in each match, helping RPI to a 2-1 record.
Kim opened with a 6-3, 6-3 singles win and an 8-6 doubles loss to St. Lawrence University before winning his last four matches, including a 6-2, 6-2 victory in singles and an 8-2 triumph in doubles against Nazareth College. He was also 2-0 against Ithaca College as the Engineers finished in fifth place as a team.
A graduate of Torrey Pines High School, Kim played singles and doubles for four years in high school. He captained the team as a senior when his doubles team finished fourth in the Palomar League. Individually, he was ranked in Southern California as a 16-year old and as an 18-year old.
A computer science major at Rensselaer, he was a National Honor Society inductee, selected to the Principal’s Honor Court, an AP Scholar with Merit and a Boy Scout of America Life Scout while in high school.
The Engineers are idle until September 23 when they host Union College at Sharp Courts beginning at 1pm.
