No it’s not an Accounting firm. It’s Jake Crawford (Clinton, New York) who plays for the University of Chicago; Josh Jachuck who plays for The Unversity of Rochester and Rob Schmitz who plays for Saint Lawrence University.
Jake started his year at the Intercollegiate Tennis Associations (ITA) Division 3 (D3) Regional Tournament where he won his first round matchup with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Illionois Wesleyan’s George Alex. Casey Cempre of Denison was his next opponent. Jake beat Cempre 6-0, 6-2. Cempre was the 18th seed at the tournament. In the next round he took on 5th seeded CJ Williams of Kenyon and won 6-4, 7-5. He lost to 16th seeded Eric Clawitter of Case Western (6-3, quit). There was no other school tennis scheduled for the fall for the University of Chicago.
Josh had only 1 loss in singles this fall, a 6-4, 6-2 loss to Zach Lipson at Ithaca. Josh survived a 3 set match against Mackenzie Park of Elmira when the team played Oneonta. After losing the first set 7-5 he came back to win the second and third sets 6-2, 6-0. Josh’s season resumes on March 6 when Robert Wesleyan College comes to the Lyman Center Courts.
Rob Schmitz had mixed results in the fall for St. Lawrence. His closest matchup was a 6-1, 0-6, 14-12 win over Jordan Petit of Hamilton College. His other 3 wins in singles were all in straight sets. He played #1 doubles with John Megas. His 2 wins were both by 9-8 scores. The team travels to Ithaca on March 2nd for the start of their spring season.
Watch for updates on all of these players here when the spring season starts.
