1999 ARCHIVES

LEMOYNE TOPS SAINTS IN SPRING MATCH

The women's tennis team fell to LeMoyne in an opening spring season match at St. Lawrence on Saturday. LeMoyne pulled off a 5-2 victory by claiming first, second, fourth and sixth singles, as well as first and second doubles.

Wendy Glawischnig captured a victory in third singles for the Saints. She defeated Aimee Churchill 6-2, 6-4. Heather McKnight won in fourth singles by defeating Brenda Case 6-1, 6-1.

In doubles action, Glawischnig and Mary Ann Paterson defeated Case and Betsy Gay of LeMoyne by a score of 8-3.

SAINTS COMPETE IN NYSWCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
The women's tennis team competed in the NYSWCAA Championship this weekend and had four players advance to second round singles action.

In first singles, Claire Spollen defeated William Smith's Sabine Kullman 4-6,
6-3, 6-0. Spollen then fell to Amy Wachenheim of Skidmore 6-0, 6-1. In fourth singles, Alexa Brazillian advanced by beating 2nd seeded Homa Rastegar of Vassar 6-2, 6-4. Brazillian lost her next match to Union's Liz Agar 7-5, 6-0. Abby Martin defeated Nicole Barnard of Hamilton 7-5, 6-1 in fifth singles, then losing to 3rd seeded Carol Baker of Vassar 6-1, 6-3. In sixth singles, Alex Rowland was victorious over Asha Manohar of RPI by a score of 7-5, 6-2. She lost in the second round 6-1, 6-0 to 1st seeded Rachel Sandler of Rochester.

Britta Waters and Wendy Glawischnig of St. Lawrence each lost in the first round of play in second singles and third singles. None of the Saint doubles teams advanced past the first round of play.

Skidmore claimed first place in the championship, followed by Rochester and Hamilton.

SAINTS 6th AT UCAA'S
The women's tennis team went 1-2, placing sixth overall in the 8-team UCAA Tournament this weekend. Skidmore claimed first place with a 5-1 victory over the University of Rochester. Hamilton edged Union 5-3 for third place, while RPI took fifth with their win over the Saints. William Smith came in seventh place and Clarkson finished last in the two day tournament.

On Saturday morning, St. Lawrence fell 5-2 to Union, claiming only sixth singles and third doubles. But the Saints bounced back in the afternoon and blanked Clarkson 5-0.

Britta Waters and Alexa Brazillian claimed second and fourth singles for the Saints, with wins over Tara Fornaro and Courtney Hornsby of Clarkson. The Saints also won all three doubles matches.

On Sunday, the Saints bowed to RPI for fifth place. RPI won 7-2, claiming first through fourth singles, sixth singles and first and second doubles.

Abby Martin won her fifth singles match 6-2, 6-4 for St. Lawrence, while Alex Rowland and Heather McKnight claimed an 8-1 win in third doubles.

SAINTS TOP POTSDAM
St. Lawrence handed host Potsdam an 8-1 loss on Tuesday, claiming all three doubles matches as well as five out of six singles matches.

Claire Spollen won in first singles 6-2, 6-4 over Jackie Allen of Potsdam. Teammates Britta Waters and Wendy Glawischnig were victorious in second and third singles (6-0, 6-1 and 6-3, 6-1) for the Saints, while Abby Martin and Mary Anne Patterson pulled through with wins in fifth and sixth singles.

The Saints claimed all three doubles matches via the teams of Spollen-Waters, Martin-Alexa Brazillian and Heather McKnight-Alex Rowland.

On Friday, the Saints will participate in UCAA's at William Smith.

SAINTS 1-1 ON ROAD
The women's tennis team suffered a 9-0 loss to host Hamilton on Friday, but came back strong on Saturday to hand William Smith their first loss of the season. The Saints edged host William Smith 6-3 and got a crucial first singles win from Claire Spollen, who defeated Sabine Kullman (4-6, 7-5, 6-4).

Wendy Glawischnig, Abby Martin and Alex Rowland also won singles matches against William Smith. The Spollen-Waters team defeated the Asmuth-Susalla team 8-4 for St. Lawrence in first doubles. The Saints also claimed a third doubles victory as Rowland-Heather McKnight defeated Carolyn Troy-Tina Sullivan of William Smith 8-6.

The Saints will play at SUNY Potsdam on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.

SAINTS TIP PLATTSBURGH 5-4 IN DUAL MATCH
The Saint team of Alexa Brazillian and Abby Martin earned what proved to be a key doubles point when they beat Plattsburgh's team of Heidi Shultz and Carrie Turco 8-1 on Wednesday as the Saints won their first dual match of the season 5-4 at Plattsburgh.

While the Cardinals won the other two doubles matches, the Saints took four of the six singles matches for the dual match win to improve to 1-3 in dual play this season.

Claire Spollen won 6-2, 6-0 at first singles, Britta Waters was a 6-3, 7-6 winner at second singles with the tie-breaker going 7-2, Wendy Glawischnig won 6-3, 6-3 at third singles and Brazillian won 6-4, 6-2 at fourth singles to lock up the match for the Saints. Martin lost 6-4, 6-2 at fifth singles while Mary Anne Patterson dropped a 7-5 6-2 decision at sixth singles.

The Saints will play duals at Hamilton on Friday and at William Smith on Saturday.

SPOLLEN, WATERS COMPETE IN ROLEX TOURNEY
Saint tennis players Claire Spollen and Britta Waters competed in the Rolex Tennis Tournament at William Smith College last weekend with Spollen advancing to the second ground of the 60 player draw.

Spollen defeated Carrie Webster of Brockport in the first round 6-2, 6-2, but ended up in a difficult draw, losing to top seeded Alyssa Bradford of Grove City College 6-1, 6-1 in the second round. Waters lost to Casey Clark of Ithaca in a three-set opening match 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 and also lost a three setter in the consolation match, bowing to Kathryn Dorosz of Allegheny.

In doubles, the team of Spollen and Waters lost an 8-6 pro set match to the second team from Grove City.

The Saints will return to dual match action with a trio of matches this week...at Plattsburgh on Wednesday and at Hamilton and William Smith on Friday and Saturday.

SAINTS LOSE TO CORTLAND
The Saints suffered another 5-4 loss on their home courts Sunday as Cortland won in first, second and third singles as well as first and third doubles.

Stacy Eyth was defeated by Kristen Janese of Cortland (6-2, 6-1) in first singles. Shannon Kavanagh and Kristin Grosso claimed second and third singles for Cortland over Saints Claire Spollen and Britta Waters.

Wendy Glawischnig and Abby Martin won consecutive weekend matches in fourth and sixth singles for the Saints, while Alexa Brazillian claimed a victory over Cortland's Lynnea Schurkemp in fifth singles.

The Eyth-Brazillian team won second doubles for St. Lawrence.

UNION EDGES SAINTS
Union defeated the St. Lawrence women's tennis team by a final score of 5-4 on Saturday. The host Saints won matches in fourth and sixth singles, as well as second and third doubles.

Wendy Glawischnig defeated Union's Liz Agar (6-4, 7-5) in fourth singles, while Abby Martin accepted a (6-3, 4-1) forfeit result over Jackie Mason of Union.

The second and third doubles teams of Stacy Eyth-Alexa Brazillian and Heather McKnight-Alex Rowland of SLU enjoyed 8-6, 8-3 victories respectively.

Cassie Lawton won the first singles match for Union (3-6, 7-5, 6-1) over Saints' Stacy Eyth. Lawton was also victorious in first doubles with teammate Liz Agar. They defeated the Claire Spollen-Britta Waters team of St. Lawrence 8-3.

The Saints will return to their home courts tomorrow for a 1:00 p.m. match against SUNY Cortland.

HARTWICK MATCH CANCELLED
Tuesday's match scheduled for 4:00 p.m. at Hartwick College, was cancelled due to inclement weather.

SKIDMORE SWEEPS SAINTS
Powerful Skidmore College swept the St. Lawrence University women's tennis team in its season opener on Saturday, but Saint coach Jeremy Freeman came away encouraged.

"We played pretty good tennis," said Freeman. "We won't see a lot of teams that strong the rest of the way, and if we play like we played on Saturday, we'll win our share."

Amy Wachenheim of Skidmore beat Stacy Eyth at first singles 6-1, 6-2, Heather Wood beat SLU's Claire Spollen 6-2, 6-0, Lisa Powers beat Britta Waters of SLU 6-2, 6-0, Lynn Erickesen of Skidmore beat Beth Carr 6-1, 6-1, Dawn Penniston of Skidmore won 6-2, 6-1 against Wendy Glawischnig and Sarah Sharpe of Skidmore beat Abby martin 6-0, 6-0 to complete the singles sweep.

Wachenheim and Powers beat Spollen and Waters 8-2 in a first doubles pro set while Wood and Penniston beat Eyth and Martin 8-3 and Ericksen and Emily Atterbury beat Beth Carr and Heather McKnight 8-2.

St. Lawrence University's women's tennis team got a taste of competition on Saturday at the Cortland Tournament, but will wait until Friday for real competition. "The format wasn't exactly what we had expected," said first-year tennis coach Jeremy Freeman. "It gave us a chance to hit against some different people, but it was just one set per pairing, so it doesn't count toward individual records." The Saints won most of their sets in both singles and doubles despite some nagging injuries and will officially open the season with Friday and Saturday home matches against Ithaca (4 p.m.) and Skidmore (1 p.m.)