In an NCAA qualifying tournament last weekend at George Mason, the men's volleyball team lost a chance to represent the East Coast Volleyball League in the NCAA finals, which will be held at UCLA May 4 and 5.

The Crimson seeded number four in the four team tournament, lost three straight games to top seeded George Mason on Friday night, 15-11, 15-10 and 15-3.

"We'd make great plays and then on the next serve we'd make a really careless error," said senior Jon Tanaka "We couldn't capitalize on our strong plays."

In a consolation match Saturday, the Crimson lost to three seeded Princeton.

"We were fairly flat after losing Friday and weren't playing up to par," junior Mo Nadkarni explained.

George Mason won the tournament, toppling Penn State in the finals.

The spikers will now move on to the Ivy League. championships next weekend where they expect to face Princeton in the championship match, Nadkarni said.

Women's Tennis

The women's tennis team crushed Brown, 9-0, on Saturday, without losing a single set, and in the process upped its Ivy League record up to a perfect 3-0.

"Everyone won pretty easily," said junior Elizabeth Evans, the Crimson's number one player.

The netwomen's strongest Ivy competition should come from Yale and Princeton. But an 8-1 victory over Yale last Friday leaves only Princeton (on May 6) in the way of an Ivy title.

Right now we're the team to beat in the Ivies," junior Debbi Kaufman said, attributing that to the Crimson's extreme depth this year.

She particularly stressed the contributions freshmen Kathy Vigna and Robin Boss, the number-three and four players respectively, have made to the team.

All the squad's members are undefeated in the Ivy play so far, with the exception of Boss and number two player Erika Smith Smith, who have suffered one loss apiece.

This weekend the Crimson will travel to New York for matches against Cornell and Syracuse.