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The Clarion \ March 27, 2019
BC tennis faces Maryville,
Wesleyan and LaGrange
By Carmen Boone
Copy Editor
The men’s and women’s tennis teams
played Maryville College in a home match on
Wednesday, March 20 at 1 p.m.
Starting with the men, number one doubles
was Tom Mittring and Tim Hengst who
won 8-0 against Smith and Stinson. At two
doubles, Nathan Boepple and Tyler Frazee
played Bratnon and Spoltore and won 8-0 as
well. Andrew Ingram and Alex Glaze won
three doubles 8-3 against Matamoros and
Underdown.
In singles. Mitring won at the number one
spot 6-1, 6-0 against Smith. Hengst played
Stinson st number two and won 6-0, 6-0. At
number three, Frazee beat Branton 6-0, 6-0.
Boepple played at four and won 6-2, 6-0
against Spoltore. At number five, Ingram won
6-0, 6-1 versus Matamoros. Glaze won at six
singles with a long first set winning 13-11 in
the tiebreaker for a set score of 7-6,6-3 against
Underdown.
The men won the match with a huge 9-0.
The women had a win as well. At one doubles
was Sam Sepe and Kelsey Kushner, who won
8-2 against Zimmerman and Dunn. Darden
King and Jen Cox won two doubles against
Dickinson and Francis 8-4. At three doubles,
Margaret Correll and Eleanor Flannery battled
but lost 6-8 to Basillo and Bain.
Sepe beat Francis at number one singles 6-0,
6-0. At two singles, Kushner and Zimmerman
split sets 4-6, 6-1, and Kushner lost in the
tiebreaker 5-10. Darden King won at three
singles 6-2, 6-2 versus Dickinson. Cox played
Dunn in four singles but lost 4-6, 0-6. Correll
won 6-1, 6-2 at five singles versus Bain. At
six singles, Kenzie Bowman played Basillo
but lost 0-6, 2-6.
The women won 5-4.
The second match of the week was on
Saturday, March 23 at home at 1 p.m. The
men played LaGrange ad the women played
Wesleyan.
Mittring and Hengst won at number one
doubles versus Benton and Kelley in a
tiebreaker 7-5 to win the set 8-7. At two
doubles, Frazee and Ingram lost 2-8 to
Thompson and Edde. Brevard forfeited three
doubles due to lack of players.
At one singles. Mittring beat Thompson 6-0,
6-0. Hengst won two singles against Benton
6-0, 6-3. Frazee and Edde were the last match
playing at three singles and Frazee finally won
7- 5 in the first set, lost 3-6 in the second and
won the tiebreaker 10-8. Ingram lost at four
singles 0-6,0-6 to Kelley. Glaze played Tyler at
five singles and lost 0-6,0-6. Brevard forfeited
six singles due to lack of players.
The men lost a tough match to LaGrange 4-5.
The women played Wesleyan. At one doubles
was Sepe and Kushner who beat Laffey and
Zhang 8-3. King and Cox won two doubles 8-1
against Bargeron and Mallis. At three doubles
were Bowman and Carmen Boone who won
8- 1 versus Lewis and Pritchett.
Sepe won one singles against Laffey 6-0,
6-0. Kushner beat Bargeron 6-1, 6-3 in two
singles. At three singles, King won 6-1, 6-2
versus Zhang. Cox won four singles against
Mullis 6-1, 6-1. Correll played Lewis at five
and won 6-0,6-0. At six singles, Flannery beat
Simpson 6-0, 6-0.
The lady Tornados won the match with a
massive 9-0 against Wesleyan.
Tim Hengst tosses tennis baii for serve.
What you may not know
about March Madness
By Brock Tuttle
staff Writer
The weekend’s ending means that the round
of 32 is now over and only 16 teams remain
in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The Sweet Sixteen will begin on Thursday and
many people can’t wait to watch these teams
battle it out.
March is a magical month in the sense that
the flowers start to blossom, underdog teams do
the unimaginable, and buzzer beaters are scored
propelling teams into the next round. The only
thing not magical is the 24 million people who
got their brackets busted in the first two rounds
of the tournament.
What you may not know is that the statistical
odds of achieving a perfect bracket are 1 in 9.2
quintillion, meaning you might as well go out
and purchase some lottery tickets. If it makes
you feel any better, you have a 1 in 14,600
chance of being struck by lightning at least
once in your lifetime.
The NCAA raked in a record S1 billion from
the March Madness tournament in 2018 despite
having the lowest championship game viewage
in 20 years. With all of the hype leading up to
the tournament this year, it’s estimated that
the earnings are going to be far more than in
previous years.
Apart from basketball and bracketology the
March Madness tournament has an enormous
impact on the economies that it affects. The
Final Four will be hosted in Minneapolis, MN
where $142 million is the projected economic
impact.
With the average worker watching six
hours of the tournament on average and
the willingness of 56 percent of millennial
workers to miss a deadline to watch a game,
corporations will lose an estimated $4 billion
due to their unproductive workers.
You can only imagine the impact on students
and their grades across the nation when
comparing them to grown adults who can
barely do their work during the tournament.
Let’s just be thankful that midterms have
already passed.