The Mountain Hawks will look for their first win of the season this weekend as they open the their home slate with a pair of matches against Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday and Saint Francis (Pa.) on Sunday inside the Lewis Tennis Center.
In its 2012 spring season opener the Lehigh men’s tennis team fell 7-0 at Penn State Saturday afternoon. The Mountain Hawks competed hard against a tough Nittany Lion squad but the young Mountain Hawk squad that featured three freshmen starting was unable to secure a victory in its first match of the season.
The Lehigh men’s tennis team will open its 2012 season this Saturday at Penn State. The team is coming off a strong 2011 season in which it finished with a 15-7 record and advanced to the Patriot League Championship match for the first time in school history. The Mountain Hawks will look to replace its top two players from last season in Troy List and Collin Laffey, who both graduated.
As the men’s tennis team gets sets to open its spring season at Penn State on January 28, the Patriot League released its preseason tennis poll on Friday. The Mountain Hawks were picked to finish third out of seven teams with 51 points behind Army and Navy, respectively. Army received 72 points and twelve first place votes while Navy received 59 points and two first-place votes. The poll is voted on by the league’s coaches and sports information directors.
It was a busy weekend for the Lehigh men’s tennis team as the Mountain Hawks hosted the three-day Lehigh Fall Invitational, while sophomore Mark Goldberg and freshman Mitchell Petersen competed at the ITA Northeast Regionals in Ithaca, N.Y. The Mountain Hawks enjoyed a strong weekend overall in their final competitions of the fall tennis season.