A full slate of competition for the Brown sports teams last week and this weekend ended with mixed results.
Women's tennis
The Bears lost to Boston College, 5-2, on Thursday in Weymouth, Mass., to drop their record to 3-1.
Bianca Aboubakare '11 teamed with sister Carissa Aboubakare '12 to win at No. 1 doubles, securing Brown's lone doubles victory, before steamrolling the 69th-ranked player in the country, Lana Krasnopolsky, 6-3, 6-1, at No. 1 singles. Catherine Stewart '12 picked up the other point for Bruno with a win at No. 6 singles.
The Bears will compete at the ECAC Team Tournament from Friday through Sunday in Hanover, N.H.
Women's swimming and diving
In their lone "home" meet of the season, held on Saturday at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., the Bears trounced Cornell, 179.5-112.5, to even their Ivy League record to 3-3. Brown won the first 13 events, many of which featured multiple Bears in the top three spots.
Natascha Mangan '11 led Brown with three total victories. She teamed with Bridget Ballard '10, Jamie Firth '12 and Candice Sisouvanvieng-Kim '11 to open the meet by triumphing in the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:50.64. In addition, she won the 200 fly and 100 fly in times of 2:08.80 and 58.75, respectively.
Two other swimmers picked up individual wins. Bailey Langner '10 dominated the breaststroke, posting a time of 1:10.03 to win the 100 and finishing in 2:28.29 to take the 200. Kristen Caldarella '12 won two legs of the free, securing the 200 in 1:55.17 and the 100 in 53:24.
Three more Bears continued Brown's control of the free. Allyson Schumacher '12 posted a time of 10:22.08 to lead the field in the 1000, Sisouvanvieng-Kim won the 50 in 24.64 and Ainsley McFadgen '09 finished in 5:09.56 to take the 500.
Brown won two backstroke races, as Sage Erskine '11 secured the 100 in 59.93 and Kelley Wisinger '11 placed first in the 200 with a time of 2:06.78. Katie Olko '10 won Bruno's only diving title in the one-meter with a score of 258.75.
The Bears will travel to New Haven on Sunday to take on Yale.
Men's swimming and diving
The men joined the women at Wheaton on Saturday but did not fare as well, falling to Cornell, 170-120, to drop their record to 1-6 overall and 1-5 in the
Ivy League.
CJ Kambe '10 and Ryan Kikuchi '11 led the Bears with two wins apiece. Kambe won the one-meter dive with a score of 275.10 and scored 268.80 to take the three-meter dive. Kikuchi triumphed in the 200 back (1:53.64) and 200 IM (1:54.26).
Bruno picked up a relay win in the 400 free when Tucker Wetmore '10, Daniel Ricketts '09, Richard Alexander '09 and John Gayton '12 posted a time of 3:07.84.
The men will also face Yale on Sunday in New Haven.
Women's track and field
Ten Bears posted top-three finishes at the Gigengack Invitational on Saturday in New Haven. The meet, hosted by Yale, was not scored for team performance.
Brown swept the top three spots in the 1000-meter run. Samantha Adelberg '11 won the race in 2:48.48, Kesley Ramsey '11 took second in 2:50.45 and Roseanne Fleming '12 followed 0.42 seconds behind.
Danielle Grunloh '10 won the shot-put with a 14.06-meter toss, while Brynn Smith '11 followed in second with a throw of 13.89 meters. Nicole Burns '09 secured Brown's third win of the meet with a time of 24.95 in the 200-
meter dash.
Three other Bears took second. Susan Scavone '12 finished the 60-meter hurdles in 8.97, Lucy Higgins '11 posted a time of 1:16.18 in the 500-meter dash and Anja Hergrueter '10 leapt 1.60 meters in the high jump.
The Bears will travel to the Armory Track in New York on Saturday.
Men's track and field
The men followed the women's success at the Gigengack by posting seven top-three finishes of their own.
Three Bears placed second. Jordan Maddocks '11 cleared 1.99 meters in the high jump, Matthew Jasmin '09 finished the 60-meter hurdles in 8.21 seconds and Marc Howland '11 ran the 60-meter dash in 6.93.
Bruno secured four third-place finishes. Andrew Chapin '10 tallied 45-09.00 feet in the triple jump, Bryan Powlen '10 threw 51-09.25 in the shot-put, Anthony Schurz '12 finished the 800-meter run in 1:55.28 and Duriel Hardy '10 ran the 3000-meter race in 8:19.95.
The men will also compete in New York this weekend.
Women's squash
The No. 9 Bears were flattened by No. 5 Yale in New Haven on Friday and No. 6 Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., on Saturday by identical 9-0 scores.
Charlotte MacMillan '09 lost in five games to Yale at No. 8 singles, while Sarah Roberts '10 pushed her Cornell opponent to five games before falling at No. 9 singles. Bruno hosted Tufts yesterday at the Pizzitola Center.
Men's squash
The No. 15 men fared no better than the women over the weekend, also falling, 9-0, to No. 3 Yale and No. 4 Cornell. No Bear was able to stave off a three-game sweep. The men also faced Tufts yesterday.
Fencing
The Bears struggled on Sunday at the Ivy No. 1 competition held at Columbia. The men went 1-2, while the women failed to win any of their four matches.
The men began with a 14-13 win over Yale. Steven Ellis '10 and Peter Tyson '12 both went 3-0 with the saber to propel Brown to an early 7-2 lead. Adam Pantel '10 posted a 3-0 record with the foil to lead Bruno to a 5-4 record in that category and a 12-6 overall lead, giving the Bears enough points to survive a 7-2 defeat in the epee. But Columbia posted a 19-8 win and Penn won, 21-6, to prevent the men from building on their early success.
The women were not able to match the men, despite an extra matchup against Cornell, which ended in a 17-10 loss. Charlotte Rose '09 posted a 3-0 record with the saber to help Brown to an early 6-3 lead over Yale, but the Bulldogs pulled away by outscoring the Bears, 15-3, in the foil and epee. Columbia and Penn closed out the day for the women with identical 23-4 drubbings.
The Bears will take a weekend off from competition before hosting the Ivy No. 2 on Feb. 22.
