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A CHALLENGING SEASON This year's men's tennis team was blessed with talent throughout the lin- eup. Each of the Terrors' six top players had winning records as the Terrors fin ished the season at 9-3. The three losses were against the same teams - Frank- lin £, Marshall, Gettysburg and Mt. 51 Mary's - that defeated WMC in 1980. "The strength of the team was in the across-the-lineup depth," said first-year coach Alex Ober. He cited the 5·4 victo- ry against Dickinson as an example, when the Terrors lost the first three sin qles matches, then came back to take the other three singles, and two of the three doubles matches. "It counts just as much to win at number six as does at number one," Ober added. Number six did win very consistently, as freshman Brian Kemlage compiled a 17·3 record, best on the team. He was \0·1 in singles play, and 7·2 in doubles, most of the time teaming up with Eric Row 1: Coaeh Ober. Brii>" Kemlage, Tim Haekerman (eo- ci>ptain), Fran MeCullin (co-capraln). Mike Tindall. Rampmeyer, Row 2: W",rd Street, Eric Tindall, Mark MeCullin, John NiSi, Kent Zeigler, Scotl Smith The number five position also did ex ceptionally well, as senior Fran McCul· lin went 17·4. A native of Randallstown, While the top six seeds were the beck- Md., the co-captain finished his career bone of the squad, illness or class work at WMC with a 61·23 record. Moreover, meant additional help was sometimes his coach praised McCullin's leadership. needed. Junior Scott Smith provided WMC Opponent While Ober was still busy with his bas that help. Probably one of the best num- Johns Hopkins 2 ketball coaching duties in late February, ber seven players in the conference, he Lebanon Valley o McCullin was organizing the team and went 5·2, to raise his career record to 24· Lycoming 3 setting up practices. 12. In 1981, Smith won 83 games while Gatlaudet Tindall, a junior, compiled a 14-7 re Franklin [,. Marshall cord at number four singles, and team- losing just 49. Moravian Other netters who stepped in for re ing with Kemlage in doubles. serve work included Mark McCullin, Ursinus At the number three position, junior Mike Rampmeyer, Jim Startt and John Dickinson Ward Street compiled a 13·8 mark. AI· Nist. All four have at least two more Susquehanna though he was only 6·6 in singles, he years with the Terrors and could help Muhlenberg teamed with McCullln for a 7·2 doubles increase the string of winning seasons, Gettysburg record which now stands at three. Mt. St. Mary's Kent Zeigler, a freshman with a bright tennis future at Western Maryland, had a 12·11 record from the number two position. Zeigler teemed with Tim Hack- erman in doubles play, and the pair ad- vanced to the quarter finals of the Mid· die Atlantic Conference Championships before losing to the eventual runners·up. Hackerman, the senior co-captain, put together a 12·8 record at number one singles. A four-year letter winner in tennis for the Terrors, Hackerman's ca- reer record at WMC was 57·35. 132