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After a rather uneventful 6-1 whitewashing, Meyer fell upon hard times as Alison Hibbert regained her composure, drubbing Meyer, 6-2. But the skillful Crimson veteran returned to her first-set style to conquer Hibbert, 6-3, for the match...
...fourth and fifth spots, the Crimson battled through a tough afternoon. Abby Meiselman did not perform up to par as she was handled, 6-2, 6-2 by her Big Green fourth-position opponent. Leslie Miller, after an impressive 7-5 first-set lead, lost her concentration and the match in three sets...
Oficially, the Tigers iced the win at number two, where Brightfield and Zimmerman came back from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to defeat Shaw and a by-then suffering Walker, 4-and-5. At third doubles, Pompan and Greg Kirsch choked away a first-set tiebreaker, 5-3, and went on to lose to Gross and Meister...
Andy Chaikovsky also impressed the home squad, playing his best match in memory to defeat bull-like Craig Morrison in straight sets, 7-6, 6-4. Chaikovsky found himself receiving serve at three-all in the first-set tiebreaker, but he coolly gutted out two straight points to take the set...
...Crimson did not own the copyright on winning tie-breakers, though. Columbia's number four, Jeff Silver, opened his match against Gerken with a 7-6 first-set victory. But Gerken was not about to let Silver spoil his Palmer Dixon debut and he came back to smoke the Lions, taking a pair of 6-3 sets without much trouble...