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Brosens, Pecotic Named Second-Team All-Ivy
April 29, 2010 | Men's Tennis
PRINCETON -- For their roles in helping Princeton to its first winning Ivy season since 2007, Charlie Brosens and Matija Pecotic were named second-team All-Ivy League by the league's coaches.
It is also the first time since 2007 that the Tigers have placed two players in the second-team All-Ivy or higher. Peter Capkovic '09 won first-team All-Ivy the last two seasons, but was the only Tiger on either the first or second teams. Three years ago, Capkovic was a first-teamer and Sratha Saengsuwarn '07 was a second-team honoree.
This year's honors are the first All-Ivy recognition for either player.
Both players split time between first and second singles during the Ivy League season. Brosens, a senior, played five of the seven Ivy matches in the top spot, going 2-3. Pecotic, a freshman, played the final Ivy weekend in the top spot and defeated Jonathan Wong, Columbia's top singles player.
The Tigers were in contention for a share of the league title through that season-closing match against the Lions, as Columbia wrapped up sole possession of the Ivy title and the NCAA berth with the win over Princeton. Princeton finished the season 8-13 overall and 4-3 in Ivy play, good for fifth in a top-heavy league that saw Columbia win at 6-1 and three teams -- Cornell, Yale and Harvard -- tie for second at 5-2.
The complete All-Ivy list is below:
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
*Mihai Nichifor, Columbia (Sr., Constanta, Romania)
*Jonathan Wong, Columbia (Sr., Melville, N.Y.)
Andy Gauthier, Cornell (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Alexei Chijoff-Evans, Harvard (Jr., Plano, Texas)
John Huang, Yale (Fr., Irvine, Calif.)
*Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
Doubles
*Jonathan Wong (Sr., Melville, N.Y.) & Mihai Nichifor (Sr., Constanta, Romania), Columbia
*Jeremy Feldman (Jr., Armonk, N.Y.) & Any Gauthier (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.), Cornell
Aba Omodele-Lucien (Jr., Berkeley, Calif.) & Christo Schultz (Fr., Sudbury, Mass.), Harvard
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Tom Deighton, Brown (Fr., London, England)
Haig Schneiderman, Columbia (So., New York, N.Y.)
Jonathan Jaklitsch, Cornell (Jr., Islip, N.Y.)
Dan Freeman, Dartmouth (Sr., Chatsworth, Calif.)
Charlie Brosens, Princeton (Sr., Bedford, N.Y.)
Matija Pecotic, Princeton (Fr., Sliema, Malta)
Doubles
Dan Freeman (Sr., Chatsworth, Calif.) & Michael Laser (So., Glencoe, Ill.), Dartmouth
Alistair Felton (So., Somerset, England) & Andy Nguyen (Fr., Phoenix, Ariz.), Harvard
Erik Blumenkranz (So., Portola Valley, Calif.) & Joel Samaha (So., Tampa, Fla.), Yale
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
*Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
*Unanimous Selection