CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A pair of America East tennis players went undefeated last week to lead their teams to two wins and earn Player of the Week Honors. Stony Brook University junior Mitch Wong (Tampa, Fla./Wharton) took the Male Player of the Week nod while Boston University junior Stefanie Nunic (New York, N.Y./Broward Virtual Education) garnered Female Player of the Week honors.

Wong won all four of his matches last week, going 2-0 in doubles and 2-0 in singles. At No. 4 singles, Wong won, 6-2, 6-1, against Army and then 6-3, 6-2, against UConn. Wong teamed with junior Mehmet Duru (Istanbul, Turkey/Chicago State) to win, 8-6, at No. 2 doubles against Army. He then teamed Ryan Schmitz for an 8-2 win at No. 3 doubles against UConn.

Nunic, the 2010 America East Player of the Year, had a stellar week. Against No. 64 Dartmouth, Nunic defeated No. 94 Molly Scott, 6-3, 6-0. The junior also won at the top doubles spot, 8-3. On Sunday against Davidson, she won the top singles spot, 6-2, 6-0, and also won the top doubles spot, 8-2.

University at Albany started off the 2011 spring season with losses to St. Joseph's (5-2) and NJIT (6-1). Against the Hawks, Albany's two victories came in singles play, at the fourth and fifth positions. Junior Aubrey Brooks (Guilford, Conn./Guilford), playing in the No. 4 slot, defeated Laura Matz, 4-6, 1-2, before Matz retired. Senior Melissa Coughlin (Auburn, N.Y./Auburn) posted a 4-6, 6-2, 10-5 win over Tara Walsh at No. 5 singles. Versus NJIT, the Great Danes (0-2) earned their lone point with a 6-3, 6-4 win by Brooks over Hannelore MacDonald at No. 4 singles. Albany will return to action on Friday, February 18, when the Great Danes host Rhode Island.

Binghamton University women's tennis (2-2) split a pair of dual matches over the weekend. The Bearcats fell to cross-town rival Cornell on Saturday. Junior Emma Leibowicz (Pittsburgh, Pa./Taylor Allderdice) secured the team's lone point with a win at sixth singles. On Sunday, Binghamton blanked its opponent with a 7-0 triumph over host Bucknell. All six Bearcats posted a pair of victories despite a few lineup changes that pitted each player with a different teammate from Saturday in the doubles portion of competition. Junior Marina Bykovskaya (Saratov, Russia/Secondary School 8) dropped only two games between her singles and doubles matches, posting a 6-0, 6-1 win at fourth singles and an 8-1 victory after getting bumped up to first doubles. The Binghamton men (0-4), ranked No. 59 in the country, remained winless after a pair of defeats in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Bearcats dropped a narrow 4-3 decision to reigning MAC champion Western Michigan before losing, 5-2, to the No. 40 Huskers. Binghamton has played three ranked opponents early and has more dual losses than the entire 2009-10 season when the team posted a record-setting 25-2 campaign. Senior leaders Sven Vloedgraven (Lochem, Netherlands/Isendoorn College) and Arnav Jain (Mumbai, India/J.M.L. School) have started to pick up momentum, however, with each player winning both his singles matches on the week. Vloedgraven, ranked No. 55 nationally, improved to 13-7 this season. Jain is a team-best 3-1 in duals. The Bearcats have earned the No. 3 seed for the upcoming 10-team ECAC Championship, which is being hosted by Harvard on February 18-21. The Bearcats will face sixth-seeded Yale in their first match on Saturday.

The Boston University women (4-2) earned two victories last week to extend their winning streak to four matches. On Wednesday against No. 64 Dartmouth, junior Stefanie Nunic (New York, N.Y./Broward Virtual Education) and sophomore Vivien Laszloffy (Budapest, Hungary/Thomas Mann Gymnasium) teamed together for an easy, 8-3 doubles victory before winning two points in singles action. Nunic was impressive, dropping just three games against the nation's No. 94 player Molly Scott. Freshman Leonie-Charlotte Athanasiadis (Haltern am See, Germany/Joseph Konig Gymnasium) captured the clinching point in three sets for the upset against Dartmouth. On Sunday, Boston U. easily swept through Davidson, 7-0. The Terriers will next host Syracuse on Sunday (Feb. 20) at 9 a.m. The men (3-3) avenged last year's loss to Sacred Heart with a 4-3 victory on Sunday. The Terrier men won the doubles point with three identical scores of 8-4. Junior Michael Kopelman (Treasure Island, Fla./Florida State), sophomore Ferdinand Brunet (London, England/Stony Brook) and freshman Jesse Frieder (Providence, R.I./The Wheeler School) each captured a point in singles action. All three wins required just two sets to help Boston U. earn its second consecutive victory at home. The Terriers will next host Bryant on Sunday (Feb. 20) at 3 p.m.

University of Hartford has yet to open its spring schedule. The Hawks take to the courts February 25 against Fairfield.

The UMBC men's tennis team rallied for a dramatic, 4-3 win at Old Dominion and improved to 5-1 on the young season. The win by the Retrievers snapped ODU's eight-match winning streak in a marathon match which took six hours to complete. UMBC was swept in doubles and split the first four singles matches to trail, 3-2. Senior No. 6 Mwali Phiri (Yonkers, N.Y./Tuckahoe/Tyler J.C.) came back from a 5-2 deficit to Alfredo Rodriguez in the third set to win, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6. The two-year letterwinner fought off a match point down 5-3 in the third. Then sophomore Gaulthier Berret (Lagny Sur Marne, France) edged Fahoum Fahoum, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 at No. 5 singles to capture the match for the Retrievers. UMBC won its other two matches in three sets as well, as junior No. 2 Joe Adewumi (Phoenix, Ariz./North Canyon) rallied to defeat Benjamin Chomette, 5-7, 7-6, 6-2. Adewumi staved off three match points down 5-6 in the second set. Sophomore No. 4 Adam Duprat (Bobigny, France) outlasted Albert Ochagavia, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. UMBC travels to Richmond, Va., for a match against VCU on Feb. 20. The UMBC women won the doubles point, but fell at Old Dominion, 5-2, on February 12. Sophomore Kyri Hadji (West Sunshine, Australia/Westbourne Grammar) defeated Arina Alilueva, 7-5, 6-1, for UMBC's lone singles victory. Hadji combined with senior Emily Mannix (Hillsborough, N.J./Hillsborough) to win, 8-6, at No. 2 doubles and clinch the doubles point. The Retrievers also dropped a 7-0 decision at 30th-ranked VCU on February 13. UMBC will play three matches in two days at Virginia Tech on February 19-20, facing Radford, Davidson and the host Hokies.

Stony Brook University played against Army and UConn over the weekend, with both the men's and women's teams recording wins in both matches. The men defeated Army, 6-1, and then shut out UConn, 7-0.  The women defeated Army, 4-3, before knocking off UConn, 6-1. The men dropped just one of 12 singles matches they played and won nine of those 11 matches in straight sets. Junior Mitch Wong (Tampa, Fla/Wharton) went 4-0 on the weekend for the men, winning both his singles in straights sets at the No. 4 position. He also went 2-0 in doubles play. On the women's side, the Seawolves had a 3-2 lead against Army when sophomore Nini Lagvilava (Tbilisi, Georgia/Number 29) won the deciding match at No. 2 singles in straight sets. Senior Gayatri Krishnan (Chennai, India/National Inst. of Open Schooling) won all four of her matches on the weekend, going 2-0 at No. 5 singles and 2-0 in doubles play. Both the Seawolves' men's and women's teams are on the road again this weekend, traveling to Philadelphia to take on Saint Joseph's February 18 and Penn February 19.