COLLEGE
WOMEN'S TENNIS FINAL SCORE
NESCAC Championship First Round
Tufts 6, Trinity 0
At Amherst, MA
Friday, May 7, 2010
Doubles
1. Julia Browne/Meghan McCooey (Tu) def. Hillary
Hoyt/Olivia Merns (Tr) 8-1
2. Lindsay Katz/Janice Lam (Tu) def. Kelsey Semrod/Frances Cameron
(Tr) 8-1
3. Jennifer LaCara/Edwina Stewart (Tu) def. Arielle Leben/Jillian
Steckloff (Tr) 8-4
Singles
1. Browne (Tu) def. Hoyt (Tr) 6-1, 6-1
2. McCooey (Tu) vs. Steckloff (Tr) 6-5, unfinished
3. Stewart (Tu) vs. Semrod (Tr) 6-2, 1-2, unfinished
4. Katz (Tu) def. Leben (Tr) 6-0, 6-1
5. Lam (Tu) def. Merns (Tr) 6-1, 6-0
6. LaCara (Tu) vs. Cameron (Tr) 7-5, 1-1, unfinished
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First year Janice Lam was one of three Jumbos
to contribute wins in doubles and singles
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AMHERST -- The Tufts University women's tennis team easily
advanced past Trinity College in the first round of the NESCAC
Championship on Friday morning at Amherst College, 6-0. The Jumbos,
seeded third, improved to 14-5 overall to set a new school record
for victories in a season.
Tufts advances to play second-seed and host Amherst in the
semi-finals on Saturday at 9 am. The Lord Jeffs received a
first-round bye. Trinity College, the #6 seed, finished its season
with a 7-6 record. Coach Kate Bayard's Jumbos surpassed the
previous wins record of 13 established by the 2006-07 Jumbos.
The #11 in the nation Jumbos decisively won doubles, 3-0. The
top pair of junior co-captain Julia Browne (Old Brookville,
NY) and senior co-captain Meghan McCooey
(Cumberland, RI), and the #2 duo of first years
Lindsay Katz (Baltimore, MD) and Janice
Lam (San Francisco, CA) both won by 8-1 scores. The
closest match of the morning came in #3 doubles, where Jumbos
Jennifer LaCara (Huntington Station, NY) and
Edwina Stewart (London, ENG) defeated Trinity's
Arielle Leben and Jillian Steckloff by an 8-4 score.
Tufts entered singles play needing just two wins to seal the
match. They accomplished that quickly, with two of the matches
ending simultaneously for the 6-0 final. Browne, the top-ranked
player in the Northeast, defeated Bantam Hillary Hoyt 6-1, 6-1 at
#1. Katz won 6-0, 6-1 on the fourth singles court against Leben,
while doubles teammate Lam posted a 6-1, 6-0 victory against Olivia
Merns in the #5 match.
This is the third straight year that Tufts has played in the
NESCAC semi-finals. The Jumbos lost 6-3 to #2 in the nation Amherst
when the teams met during the regular season on April 20.
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