In the semifinals of the Oracle ITA Masters, junior men’s tennis star Victor Pham topped Wake Forest’s Petros Chrysochos—the third-ranked player in the nation—before falling just short in the championship match against USC’s Brandon Holt at Pepperdine University this weekend.

Former men’s basketball forward Luke Petrasek, CC ’17, will realize his NBA dreams after signing a free agent deal with the Charlotte Hornets on Monday.

Men’s tennis kicked off its fall season over the weekend by sending players to both the Penn Invitational in Philadelphia and the Hall of Fame ITA Grass Court Invitational in Newport, Rhode Island.

Sunny skies and palm trees have dominated the ranks of baseball and softball for years. Warm-weather, southern schools have claimed 47 of the last 49 national baseball championships and 33 of the last 35 national softball championships, with schools like Louisiana State, Arizona, and Arizona State leading the way.

Heading into a four-game weekend series at Princeton, softball sat just three games behind the Ivy League-leading Tigers and had the chance to usurp their position atop the conference standings with a sweep.

After a split at home against Cornell last weekend, softball will travel to Lawrenceville, New Jersey to play Rider in a doubleheader on Wednesday.

Softball will open Ivy League play this weekend when it hosts Dartmouth and Harvard for doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Softball defeated Monmouth in both games of a doubleheader at home on Friday.

Softball ended its spring break Florida road trip at the Jacksonville Invitational, finishing 2-3 in a three-day span.

Softball will head to DeLand, Florida this weekend to kick off spring break with four games in the Stetson Westin Invitational.