In its first road match of the spring, the Muhlenberg men’s tennis team was defeated by a 5-2 score by Elizabethtown, the defending Commonwealth Conference champion.

Sophomore James Goldman won at both doubles and singles, winning a marathon match at No. 4 singles in which the first two sets went to tiebreakers.

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D3hoops.com Final Poll school record last rank 1. Hope 33-1 6 2. Southern Maine 32-2 1 3. Scranton 31-2 2 4. Bowdoin 27-3 5 5. DePauw 29-2 4 6. Washington (Mo.) 25-3 3 7. Hardin-Simmons 24-7 rv 8. Randolph-Macon 28-3 7 9. Baldwin-Wallace 27-5 12 10. Mary Washington 29-2 8 11. Wheaton (Ill.) 25-5 14 12. Pacific Lutheran 24-4 16 13. Capital 26-4 10 14. Wis.-Stout 22-8 21 15. Brandeis 20-5 13 16. Messiah 26-3 9 17. Williams 23-6 23 18. McMurry 26-3 11 19. Rochester 20-8 rv 20. MUHLENBERG 26-3 15 21. Simpson 24-5 18 22. Howard Payne 24-5 20 23. Bridgewater 24-7 nr 24. Medaille 26-2 25 25. Carroll 22-5 rv

The Muhlenberg women’s basketball team is ranked 20th in Division III in the final D3hoops.com poll for the 2005-06 season.

The Mules, who set a school record for wins with a 26-3 record and captured their first Centennial Conference championship in eight years, were ranked 15th before falling to Mary Washington in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Mary Washington went on to lose in the next round to Bowdoin, which was defeated by Southern Maine in the “Elite Eight.”

Southern Maine knocked off Hardin-Simmons in a national semifinal, but lost to Hope in the championship game.

Muhlenberg, therefore, lost to the team that lost to the team that lost to the team that lost to the team that won the national championship.

Women’s basketball is the first Muhlenberg team to end a year ranked in the national top 20 since football was ranked 17th in Division III in the final 2002 poll.

The Mules were 22nd in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association final poll.