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...basketball, Ferrell says this is the end of his athletic movie run. However, “Semi-Pro” does manage to give the familiar underdog plot a slight twist. As Moon, Ferrell plays the owner and team captain of the Tropics, a sub-par American Basketball Association (ABA) team from Flint, MI. When the ABA merges with the NBA, Moon tries to take his team to the big league by shooting for a fourth-place finish. The tension comes down to the season’s final game. “It?...
...energy was fantastic,” Rueb said. “Everybody got a chance to play today, and everyone made a contribution.” Harvard set the tone with a pair of resounding victories in the doubles, clinching the point. Junior Sasha Ermakov and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien led the way with an 8-3 victory over Eagles counterparts Garber and Wagner at No. 2, while senior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Michael Hayes’ irresistible combination of power and flair proved too much for Kreutzer and Sechrist in an 8-4 triumph at No 1. With...
...matches all ended in Kentucky wins, enough for the overall victory. The Wildcats took the No. 3 and No. 4 singles spots in straight sets and won at No. 6 in three sets. The most exciting match of the day came at the No. 5 spot between Crimson freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien and Alberto Gonzalez. The two traded sets before the third and most highly-contested set. After fighting off a match point on Omodele-Lucien’s serve, Gonzalez mustered up the energy to win the tiebreak, 7-6 (9-7), giving the Wildcats the necessary fourth point...
...early ditch on Friday, Harvard opened its match against the Boilermakers determined not to let it come down to the final set.That almost didn’t happen, though, as the crucial doubles point hung in balance after the No. 2 pair of co-captain Dan Nguyen and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien won their match 8-6 while the No. 3 pair Clayton and freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans dropped their match 8-3. The Crimson’s No. 1 pair, senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov found themselves in a protracted back-and-forth series of deuces...
...Wong in three sets 7-5, 3-6, 6-0.Junior Michael Kalfayan made it to the semifinals of the B-singles draw, playing a tenacious back-court game that allowed him to power past four-year Yale starter Rory Green 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.Freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien won his first match in the B-draw 6-4, 6-2 before falling to the eventual runner-up. Fellow freshman Will Guzick lost to the eventual B draw champion in the first round, and after winning one match in the consolation draw, lost to that bracket’s eventual...