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Columbia started the day strong, winning the doubles point by sweeping the three doubles matches. Salil Seshadri and Akram Zaman defeated the No. 1 team of co-captain Joe Green and Styperek 8-6, and the No. 2 pairing of sophomore William Lee and freshman Dave Lingman fell to the Lions' Sam Josephs and Donny Opici 9-7. Mickey Kaplan and Peter Holik completed the sweep by beating juniors Mike Rich and Anthony Barker 8-5, giving Columbia a 1-0 team lead...
After the doubles debacle, things went from bad to worse for the Crimson. Seshadri defeated Lingman, who was playing in only his second singles match of the tournament, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, and Opici polished off Barker 6-2, 6-2. The Lions had a 3-0 lead and needed only one more point to claim the championship...
Indeed, the team has two traveling freshman, Lingman and Choo. The ECAC's were supposed to be the first test to see how the team would incorporate its new talent...
...League foe Brown in the semifinals. Up to that point, Brown had had easy wins over Marist and Penn State, and was on the short list of teams looking to take the tournament as the No. 4 seed. Fish switched around the doubles teams, pairing up a previously injured Lingman with Lee at No. 2 to replace Oli Choo. It proved to be a good move as Green and Styperek won at No. 1 and Lee/Lingman won at 2 to take the doubles point...
Harvard then took four singles matches, and could have swept had not Green and Lingman lost their singles matches in third set tiebreakers...