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Lucky 13 for Hop

Johns Hopkins, 2018 champions
Johns Hopkins, 2018 champions
Posted: May 06, 2018

Box Score

 

 

The Basics 
• Score: #24 Johns Hopkins-5, #16 Swarthmore-0  
• Records: JHU (18-3) • SC (13-12)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • JHU Tennis Courts
• The Short Story: The 24th-ranked Johns Hopkins men’s tennis team beat 16th-ranked Swarthmore, 5-0, to claim the 2018 Centennial Conference Championship on Sunday afternoon. 

How it Happened
• Hopkins grabbed a 3-0 lead in the match as the Blue Jays swept the doubles matches. Freshman Vishnu Joshi and sophomore Vik Vasan gave the Blue Jays the early lead as they beat Jiung Jung and Blake Oetting, 8-4, at third. The win avenged their 8-0 loss just eight days earlier. 
• Sophomores Joe Cartledge and Austin Gu also avenged last week's loss, earning a hard-fought 9-7 win over John Lathrop and Thibault Vernier at second. Senior David Perez and junior Scott Thygesen capped doubles with an upset win over Mark Fallati and Josh Powell, the third ranked doubles team in the Atlantic South. The pair grabbed a 9-7 win to earn their second win over the Garnet doubles team in a span of eight days. 
• Needing just two wins to secure the trophy and the NCAA’s automatic bid, it was Gu and senior Justin Kang that came through for the Blue Jays. Kang pushed Hopkins’ lead to 4-0 in the match when he beat Lathrop 6-4, 6-2 at sixth singles. Gu followed shortly thereafter with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Jung at fifth. 

What it Means
• Hopkins improves to 22-26 all-time against Swarthmore and has now won four straight and 20 of the last 21 meetings. The Blue Jays are also 9-0 against the Garnet in the Centennial Conference Tournament. 
• Hopkins’ 12 straight and 13 overall Centennial Conference championships are conference records, breaking the tie with Washington College. The Shoremen won 11 straight titles from 1994 to 2004 and then claimed a 12th overall in 2006.  
• The Blue Jays are 25-1 all-time in the conference tournament, since its inception in 2006. 
• Gu was named the Centennial Conference Tournament MVP after going 2-0 in doubles and 1-0 in singles in the championship.

Up Next
• Hopkins earns the conference’s automatic qualifier to the NCAA Championship and will make its 13th straight appearance. The tournament bracket will be announced on Monday, May 7 at Noon on NCAA.com.