(Posted April 17, 2008)

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- The Juniata College men's tennis team's final tune-up before a make-or-break conference battle with Moravian College did not go how the Eagles had hoped, as Juniata dropped a 9-0 decision to Gettysburg College on Thursday afternoon in Gettysburg, Pa. Sophomore Jarrad Silver (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) and junior Jonathan Skoner (Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic) nearly forced their matches at #1 and #2 singles into super-tiebreakers; Silver lost to Gettysburg's Dale Beshore at #1 singles 7-5, 6-4, while Skoner was upended at #2 singles, 6-2, 7-5, by the Bullets' Derin Wilson. Silver and Arnab Chakrabarti (Alpharetta, Ga./Alpharetta) played the Gettysburg pairing of Beshore and Kyle Naylor to an 8-4 loss in the Eagles' closest doubles match of the afternoon. Juniata (6-11) will close out the 2007-08 regular season on Saturday, April 19, when it hosts Moravian College in a Landmark Conference match at the Raffensperger Tennis Courts in Huntingdon. The winner will claim the final spot in the Landmark Conference Men's Tennis Championship, which begins on Wednesday, April 23. Complete match results are below: WOMEN'S TENNIS Gettysburg 9, Juniata College 0 Apr 17, 2008 at Gettysburg, Pa. Singles competition 1. Dale Beshore (GC) def. Jarrad Silver (JUN) 7-5, 6-4 2. Derin Wilson (GC) def. Jonathan Skoner (JUN) 6-2, 7-5 3. Mike Leary (GC) def. Ryan Navarro (JUN) 6-1, 6-1 4. Patrick Dempsey (GC) def. Arnab Chakrabarti (JUN) 6-2, 6-1 5. Kyle Naylor (GC) def. Aaron Rhodes (JUN) 6-1, 6-2 6. Kevin Raynes (GC) def. No player (JUN), by default Doubles competition 1. Dale Beshore/Kyle Naylor (GC) def. Jarrad Silver/Arnab Chakrabarti (JUN) 8-4 2. Patrick Dempsey/Derin Wilson (GC) def. Jonathan Skoner/Aaron Rhodes (JUN) 8-3 3. Will Brinks/Jon Walter (GC) def. Ryan Navarro/No player (JUN), by default -30-

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