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October 2019 TIB Newsletter
SPOTLIGHT ON
Shir Azran, Fresno State University
Fresno, CA 10/4/19 Shir Azran (Bat-Yam, ISRAEL) reached the quarterfinals of the ITA Oracle Masters Women's Singles Consolation Draw by defeating Army's Ana Joyner in three sets [2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3)] before falling in a close straight-set battle with Brindtha Ramasamy of Miami-Ohio.
Azran represented the MW as the conference's top returning player and the only competitor in the MW since Fresno State joined the league (2012-13) to win at all six singles positions.
Yannai Barkai, North Carolina State
TULSA, Okla. – Tadas Babelis and Yannai Barkai (Kiryat Ono, ISRAEL) of the NC State men's tennis team wrapped up action at the ITA All-American Championships on Thursday evening.
Playing in the consolation bracket of the doubles draw, Babelis and Barkai faced off against Georgia's Blake Croyder and Philip Henning. NC State's duo managed to win the first set, but Croyder and Henning held on for the 1-6, 6-4, 15-13 comeback win.
The loss was just the second of the season for the Wolfpack pair. Babelis and Barkai have posted an impressive 8-2 doubles mark to start the 2019-20 campaign, highlighted by three victories over nationally-ranked opponents.
Babelis and Barkai earned a spot in the main draw at the ITA All-American Championships after winning three matches in a row in the qualifying draw on Monday and Tuesday. Their first two contests went into super tiebreakers for the third sets, and the pair managed to defeat 30th-ranked Oscar Cutting and David Stevenson in straight sets to book their spot in the main draw of the national tournament.
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Daniel Dudockin, University of Nevada
Reno, NV Sophomore Daniel Dudockin (Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, ISRAEL) is off to a great start in his second season at Nevada. Dudockin reached the finals of the B singles at the UCD Invitational. His five singles wins is second on the team and 4-1 doubles record tops the Pack.
Hagay Jalon, Florida Atlantic University
Men’s
Soccer Upsets No. 15 Marshall in Overtime Thriller
BOCA
RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University men's soccer team (5-6-1, 1-4-0)
pulled off their biggest upset of the season against Conference USA opponent
Marshall (10-2-1, 3-1-1) Saturday night. FAU's leading goal scorer Ivan Mykhailenko converted
on a penalty kick try in overtime to help the Owls' gather their second win
over a ranked opponent this season in a 1-0 decision.
How
It Was Won
Both teams were scoreless in both halves with FAU outshooting Marshall 8-4 in
the first and 4-3 in the second. During regulation, goalkeeper Hagay Jalon (Haifa, ISRAEL) came up
with three crucial saves and the backfield delivered key stops throughout the
contest. With the game being sent into overtime, Marshall fouled inside the box
at the 93rd minute to set up for a penalty kick try. Mykhailenko's shot slid
past the right side of the Herd's goalkeeper, who came off C-USA Defensive
Player of the Week honors, to end the night with a sweet victory, 1-0.
Talya Zandberg, University of Arizona
San Diego, Calif. –The Wildcats came out strong on the first day of the ITA Regionals, collecting a total of five singles wins and three doubles wins. Khim Iglupas and Kirsten Prelle picked up their first wins for Arizona. Iglupas finished with a record of 1-2 and Prelle with a winning record of 3-1. Freshman Kayla Wilkins finished with a record of 2-3.
Quotable
"We learned a lot from the is tournament and I think we are growing stronger each day. The most important thing I think we learned was that Arizona is going to never give up and we are only going to get better."
Juniors Talya Zandberg (Tiberias, ISRAEL) and Gitte Heynemans participated in their second ITA Regionals for the Wildcats. Zandberg finished with a winning record of 3-1 and Heynemans won a pair of matches. Senior Abby Amos finished the tournament with a record of 1-2.
Bar Botzer, Wake Forest University
Botzer
Wins ITA Carolina Regional; Qualifies for ITA Fall Championships
CARY,
N.C. - The
Men's ITA Carolina Regional Championships wrapped up on Tuesday with an
all-Wake Forest final. Bar
Botzer (Tel Aviv, ISRAEL) and Rrezart
Cungu faced off for the singles championship, with Botzer winning the
final 6-4, 7-6 (5). Botzer and Cungu both qualify for the ITA Fall
Championships next month in Newport Beach, Calif.
Botzer earned the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, Melios Efstathiou was
the four-seed, Cungu the 12th seed and Eduardo Nava was the
No. 16 seed in the event.
Player Profile: Mika Misgav, St. Louis University
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Sophomore
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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Leadership & HR Management
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2018-19 • FRESHMAN | Match-by-Match Results
• Joined the Billikens in the spring semester.
• Led the team in singles winning percentage (.600) and dual-match singles victories (nine).
• Posted a 6-2 record at No. 3 singles.
• 3-1 in singles vs. A-10 opponents.
• Teamed with Alba Salinas to go 3-1 in doubles vs. A-10 opponents.
• Won both singles and doubles vs. four opponents, including Rhode Island in the A-10 Championship first round.
• Went 7-2 in her last nine singles matches of the season.
• Posted a 3-2 record in singles matches that went to a third set or super-tiebreaker.
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