Monday,
April 30, 2007
MORAVIAN WOMEN'S TENNIS TEAM HEADED TO
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY FOR NCAA REGIONALS
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College women's tennis team
will travel to Washington & Lee University to compete in the
first through third rounds of the 2007 NCAA Division III Women's
Tennis National Championship Tourament beginning Friday, May 4th.
The Greyhounds, who are 14-2 overall and earned the Commonwealth
Conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, will play Johns
Hopkins University, the Centennial Conference champion with a 16-3
record, on Friday at 2:00 p.m. The winner of the match will face
the University of Mary Washington, 20-2 and the champion of the
Capital Athletic Conference on Saturday, May 5th at 2:00 p.m.
Friday's other first round match will have Cabrini College, the
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference champion with a 12-4 mark, playing
Swarthmore College, the Centennial Conference runner-up and which
received an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships with a 12-6 record
playing at 10:00 a.m. The winner of that contest will play host
Washington & Lee, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference champion
at 20-1, in Saturday's other second round match that will start
at 10:00 a.m. The winners of Saturday's two contests will play on
Sunday at 12:00 p.m. for the chance to move to the final rounds
at Mary Washington, May 15th through 17th.
The NCAA field was expanded to 48 teams this year with 32 automatic
qualifiers, eight Pool B bids from independent institutions and
conferences without automatic qualification and eight Pool C or
at-large berths.
Moravian, under the direction of head coach Dawn Ketterman-Benner,
won its eighth conference championship last fall to earn the spot
in the the NCAA Tournament, which is a first for the Greyhounds.
Moravian has a 190-21 record since the start of the 1994 season
and has played in the conference championship match each year. The
Greyhounds were 12-1 during the fall portion of their 2006-07 schedule,
and Moravian has won two of three matches this spring.
Junior Rebecca Angstadt (Hamburg, PA/Hamburg HS)
is 17-1 to lead the Greyhounds with a 13-1 mark at sixth singles.
Sophomore MaryKate Kelly (Beach Haven, NJ/Southern Regional
HS) is 18-3 in singles action, just one victory shy of
tying the single season record, with 15-1 dual match record. Junior
Brittany Popaca (Lavallette, NJ/Point Pleasant Beach HS)
is 13-5 in singles including 10-3 at third singles while junior
Jennel Yelito (Tamaqua, PA/Tampaqua HS) is 13-6
with an 11-3 mark at fifth singles.
Angstadt won the 2006 Middle Atlantic States
Collegiate Athletic Corporation Individual Sixth Singles title while
Popaca won the Third Singles title and Kelly
captured the Fourth Singles championship. Senior Margo Kokolus
(Orefield, PA/Parkland HS) was 9-8 in the fall including
7-6 at first singles but is not playing this spring due to an injury.
Sophomore Dyana Swan (Branchburg, NJ/Somerville HS) has
a 10-7 singles mark this season with a 9-7 slate at second singles
while junior Lindsey Hopper (Middlesex, NJ/Middlesex HS)
is 2-0 at sixth singles. Senior Courtney Hall (Denver, PA/Cocalico
HS) has moved into the top singles spot to replace Kokolus
and has a 1-4 record.
Kokolus and Hall competed at
first doubles for the Greyhounds and were 6-10 overall and 5-7 in
dual matches while the team of Popaca and Kelly
is 12-8 overall and 10-2 in dual contests at second doubles. Popaca
and Kelly have moved into the top spot to replace
Kokolaus and Hall. Swan
and Yelito have combined for a 2-2 doubles record
while Hall and Hopper are 3-0
this spring.
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