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Thursday, August 22, 2002 MORAVIAN WOMEN'S TENNIS SELECTED TO WIN COMMONWEALTH TITLE ANNVILLE, PA --- The Moravian College women's tennis team has been selected to finish first in the 2002 Commonwealth Conference Preseason Poll as voted by the conference head coaches. The Greyhounds, who won their second straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championship in 2001, received 36 points and two first place votes to finish three points ahead of Susquehanna University, which also received two first place votes. Rounding our the top four were Messiah College in third place with 29 points and Juniata College in fourth place with 25 points and a first place vote. Moravian, under the direction of 16-year head coach Dawn Benner, returns four starters and eight letterwinners from last year's 16-0 squad that won its fifth MAC title in the last six years. Since the 1994 season, Moravian is 117-11 with five Commonwealth championships. The Greyhounds will open their 2002 campaign on Thursday, September 5th in a MAC Commonwealth match at Lebanon Valley College beginning at 4:00 p.m.2002 COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE WOMEN'S TENNIS PRESEASON POLL
First-place votes in parentheses |