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spOrts11Friday, January 25, 2013 • The BroWn and WhiTe

By JULIO RAMIREZ

The women’s tennis team will face the Drexel University Dragons tomor-row at 11 a.m. The Dragons, with a winning record against Lehigh in re-cent seasons, will come to the Murray H. Goodman Campus to face off with the Mountain Hawks before the teams begin league play.

Head Coach Dave Shook does not expect that his team will have a change in preparation and he urged them to ready themselves just as they have for other matches thus far in the season.

Preparing for Drexel will be a men-tal challenge, according to Shook. The

game would help set a positive tempo for the season if the squad can pull out a win. Shook added that the team needs to control the scoreboard so that his players do not have to play catch-up during matches.

“It is important to correct the little mistakes we are making as a team now so that when we go into league play we can execute everything,” Shook said.

Shook is proud of his players’ ef-forts so far and hopes that they keep improving as the season progresses. This season Shook has set team goals as being more aggressive and making opponents work for every point.

Junior Jenai Bilimoria emphasized that league games are going to be cru-cial in determining the team’s success this season.

“We lifted [daily in the offseason], and during that we also worked on certain aspects of our game,” Bilimoria

Tennis looks to serve up a winsaid, referencing the team’s hard work and preparation.

She added that her personal goals are to work her hardest and win as many matches as she can. Because she has the most experience on the team, she hopes she can lead by example by motivating the team.

“Our coaches have been centering our practices around developing an offensively-minded team,” sophomore Abby Farrell said.

She explained that offensive play emerges through attacking second serves, looking for opportunities to rush into the net and taking full advan-tage of short balls.

“We have a number of matches before Patriot League play which will hopefully prepare us better,” Bilimora said. She also added that the team is looking to knock off Colgate and Buck-nell universities come springtime.

and hope that hard work in condition-ing, practice, and film will pay off to-night and then carry over to March for the NCAA tournament.

“Everyone’s got their own strengths and weaknesses in different areas,” Welsh said. “A teammate may be strong in an area where I’m weak, and he can help me develop in that area.”

“One person who stands out as a leader for most people on our team would be Robert Hamlin,” Smith said. “He’s just an all around great guy, leads by example and has an outstand-ing work ethic. We all expect big things from him this season.”

Abreu added that they would like to place top 10 at the NCAA National Championships and add one or two national champions as well.

The Hawks will host Oklahoma tonight at 7 p.m. and Oregon State University Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lee-man-Turner Arena.

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Women’s Tennis

n Women’s tennis will take on Drexel in a tone-setting match that could determine the outcome of their season.