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M SHTURDAY 4 p MAY 19,2018 COMMENCEMENT WM ELON UNIVERSITY rc i t' 4-^ I Women’s basketball returns to the NCAA Tournament The Elon women’s basketball team showed they were not just a one-and-done story. The team gathered up 25 wins for the second year in a row, including going undefeated at home in the last season at Alumni Gym. The No. 13-ranked Phoe nix traveled to Raleigh to take on the No. 4 N.C. State Wolfpack in the first round. Elon picked a tough day to have their worst game of the season and fell 62-35. 2 Mike Kennedy gets win No. 700 The 1991 graduate of Elon, now in his 22nd year as head baseball coach, captured his 700th career win with a 5-4 win over North Carolina A&T on April 18. Kenne dy’s milestone win came in the middle of an eight-game winning streak for the Phoenix, which helped them get the season back on track after losing five of six games before the streak started. Kennedy currently has the seventh most wins among active head coaches in wins at their alma mater. PHOTO COORTISy OF ElOtlPraF»K.CO« 3 Track & field shines in last day of CAA Championships 4 - mJ ■*■4: situ I .1 Elon women’s track & field needed a big push in the final day of the CAA Championships on May 6, and they cer tainly delivered. The Phoenix saw four medals make their way back to campus: junior Coralea Geraniotis won the 5,000 meters, senior Emily Dixon won her fourth-straight heptathlon, sophomore Melissa Anastasakis won the 1,500 me ters, and senior Bryanna Hames claimed first in the discus for the first time since her freshman year. However, the Phoe nix fell just short of first place for the second year in a row as the Northeastern University Huskies edged them out by just a point and a half Men’s tennis Player of the Year Junior Felipe Sarrasague was hon ored for his dominant performance this year by being named the CAA Men’s Tennis Player of the Year. He was also named to the All-CAA sin gles team along with two other team mates. This is now the fourth time, all in the last six years, that an Elon player has taken home this confer ence distinction. Sarrasague won 20 singles matches this year, posting a 20-11 record. He also added 15 wins in the doubles section. Of the eight matches he lost in the spring, three of them came against nationally-ranked opponents. In his three years so far, Sarrasague has a total of 72 victories between singles and doubles matches. as COfiV WELLER I ELON NEWS NEIWOH
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