Tennis team hopes for championship season

by Jose Jalandoni staff writer

Excitement has come to the tennis courts of Cabrini College. Cabrini's men's tennis team is starting fresh under the leadership of captain Mike McGann and co-captain Joe Elliot., both seniors. The team is looking forward to winning the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference championship this year in order to finish up some unfinished business from two years ago.

··we came close to winning the championship two years ago;• Elliot. stated

~n Ducan, Scott Giblin, Tyler Burt and Ron Branca are four promising first-year students that were added to the team this year. Mixed with the returning players, the unstoppable solution that the team needed has been created. The outlook for winning the championship is very good, with the combined talents of this year's team. The players are poised to become one of the best tennis teams Cabrini has ever had. The team is currently undefeated, defeating schools such as Widener University, Wesley College and Alvernia College.

McGann, EHiott and Tony Barrett, a junior, all said that it is too early in the season for any factual predictions of the season's outcome.

''The season can still go either way," McGann said.

Nevertheless, the players are very optimistic about the future. They are confident about winning the championship and hope to remain undefeated. McGann and Elliot, the senior leaders, want to leave Cabrini College with something they can be proud of.. Their goal is nothing less than winning the PAC.

According to McGann and Elliot, this has been the strongest men's tennis team that they have seen on the courts of Cabrini since their freshmen year.

"Some of the teams we've come up against haven't got the caliber of our players," Ian Duncan, one of the four freshmen players, agreed.

The tennis team has a lot going for it aside from its skilled players. There is a resounding sense of team-work.

''The tennis team makes us feel welcomed," Ian Ducan said.

It is not an easy road to the championships, and everyone on the team knows it. The players still have a long way to go, but with a sense of team work, the team is confident it can rise to any occasion to achieve victory.

There is also great hope for the future. With the exceptions of McGann and Elliot, everyone on the tennis team is expected to return for another promising season.