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Monday, May 9, 2011 MORAVIAN WOMEN’S TENNIS SQUAD HEADED TO PITTSBURGH IN
In other first round action on Thursday, the host Tartans (11-8 and an at-large selection) will play Elizabethtown College (12-5, the Commonwealth Conference Champion) at 9:00 a.m. while Ithaca College (10-9, the Empire 8 Conference Champion) will battle Wilkes University (15-1, the Freedom Conference Champion) at 3:00 p.m. Washington & Lee (VA) University (18-6, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Champion) has a bye into the second round on Friday and competition runs through Saturday, May 14th. For more information on the regional site, visit http://www.cmu.edu/athletics/sports/wtennis/schedules/ncaa2011.html. The single-elimination tournament features first, second and third rounds played at regional sites, May 13-15 or May 12-14. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 24-26 at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont, Calif. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 11. The championship provides for a 49-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 37 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Three teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining nine teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible. The Greyhounds earned an automatic berth by winning the 2011 Landmark Conference Championship on Saturday, April 30th with a 5-4 win over The University of Scranton. Moravian is making their second NCAA Division III Tournament appearance. The other was also an automatic berth for winning the Commonwealth Conference title in 2007 when the Greyhounds fell to Johns Hopkins University, 5-0, in the opening round. Moravian head coach Dawn Ketterman-Benner has the Greyhounds in the postseason for the 17th straight season. Ketterman-Benner, who has a career mark of 259-101, has led Moravian to the conference championship match in each of the 17 postseason trips with ten conference titles including winning the three of the first four Landmark Conference titles in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Sophomore Chelsea Ott (Allentown, PA/Dieruff HS) is 13-1 at first singles this season while senior Elizabeth Endy (Hummelstown, PA/Lower Dauphin HS) is 7-6 with a 5-3 mark at fourth singles this season. Senior Kerry McKinley (Sparta, NJ/Pope John XXIII HS) has a 10-10 singles mark with a 5-4 slate at third singles, and McKinley became the seventh player in school history to reach 50 career singles wins. freshman Katie Zien (West Suffield, CT/Suffield HS) is 10-9 in singles action in her debut season with a 5-3 record at fifth singles and a 4-3 mark at fourth singles while freshman Erica Venuti (Sewell, NJ/Washington Township HS) is 3-5 in singles. Junior Brianna Kavanagh (Pittsgrove, NJ/Arthur P. Schalick HS) is 4-5 in singles while freshman Olivia Sonnabend (King of Prussia, PA/Delaware County Christian HS) has a 2-2 singles mark this season. Sophomore Stephanie Cox (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Bishop Eustace HS) has a 5-12 singles slate including a 3-2 mark at sixth singles. Ott and Zien have combined for a 6-2 record at second doubles while Endy and Venuti have a 4-1 record at third doubles. Ott and Endy also have a 3-0 doubles record while Venuti and Zien have a 6-6 doubles record this season and are 5-2 at third doubles. McKinley and Ott are 3-0 at first doubles. |
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College women’s tennis team will be heading to the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the First through Third Rounds of the 2011 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament, and the Greyhounds (10-6 overall) will battle The University of Mary Washington (VA) (16-8, the Capital Athletic Conference Champion) in the opening round on Thursday, May 12th at 12:00 p.m.