Princeton Tops Netwomen As Evans, Schulman Fall

Caught on a seesaw of uneven performance, the Harvard women's tennis team spent its entire season with players alternating up and down the scale, but the netwomen could never all reach the heights at the same time Whenever one player was up, another was down.

Victims of uneven play up to the end, Harvard fell to Ivy League champion Princeton, 5-4, yesterday as the netwomen closed out the year with a 6-6 record.

"We couldn't quite put it together." Harvard Coach Don Usher said of the Princeton match and the season in general. "Everybody has off days."

But his netwomen failed because somebody always had an off day.

At no time during the year did the entire squad click. Hamstrang injuries to Deanne Loonin and Tracy Kunichika kept them from consistent action and the inexperience of a four-freshmen squad meant that someone always had a bad day. Yesterday the off day belonged to Elizabeth Evans and Erica Schulman.

The most consistent duo in the Crimson lineup this year. Evans and Schulman dropped two singles matches and a doubles contest between them Despite the failure of the top seeds, brilliant performances in the rest of the lineup kept the netwomen in the battle until the end of the eighth match. In fact, after Deanne Loonin's clutch three-set victory at sixth singles, the score stood dead-locked at three with only the double matches to come.

Evans and Schulman bowed quickly at first doubles, 6-0, 6-1, and both other Crimson pairs spotted the Tigers a set Suddenly needing victories in both second and third doubles, Harvard bounced back

Down 3-0 in the second set. Usher's second doubles team of Maria Pe and Debbie Kaufman rallied to within a game of Princeton's Susan Whitney and Jan Shelburne. It took the Tigers four matchpoints and dogged persistence to snatch the set 7-5 and clinch the team laurels for Princeton

Meanwhile, at third doubles, Loonin and Tracy Kunichika had mounted a comeback of their own After yielding the opening set, 6-3, the Crimson freshmen dumped Jeannie Weinberg and Amanda Carney, 6-2 and 6-1.

At first singles, Evans experienced the frustration of facing a strong baseline player. Joy Cummings's tennis proved solid and consistent if unexciting, and Evans paid dearly for every error.

The Harvard top seed relies on the ability to send passing shots whizzing by an awed opponent The power game gives the freshman a number of blow-out victories, but her slugging style costs her the consistency of a more conservative approach.

Princeton 5, Harvard 4

Singles--1 Joy Cummings (P) d Elizabeth Evans, 6-4 6-2 2 Pia Tamayo (P) d Enca Schulman 6-4 6-2 3 Mana Pe (H) d Jan Sheburne 6-4, 7-5 4. Tina Bougas (H) d Jan Sheiburne 6-4, 7-54. Tina Bougas (H) d Anne Rentew 6-3 6 2 5 Jeannie Weinberg (P) d Debbe Kaufman 6 2 6 1 6 Deanne Loonan (H) d Robin Rosenberg 5 7 6-3 6-2.

Doubles--1 Cummings. Tamayo (P) d Evans Schulman, 6-0 6-1 2 Sheburne-Susan Whitney (P) d Pe-Kaufman, 6-1 7-5 3 Loonun-Tracy Kunchika (H) d Weinberg Amanda Carney 3-6 6 2 6-1.