April 21, 2007
Shorewomen Excuse Mules, 7-2
Washington Clinches Playoff Spot with Win

CHESTERTOWN, MD -- The Washington College women's tennis team clinched the final spot in the four-team Centennial Conference Playoffs with a 7-2 win over visiting Muhlenberg this afternoon at Schottland Tennis Center. The Shorewomen, ranked 12th in the Atlantic South region, improved to 9-9 overall and 7-3 in conference play with the win, while the Mules, ranked 18th in the region, fell to 7-7 and 5-5 with the loss.

Washington jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the match by sweeping doubles. Junior Allison Daciek (Severna Park, MD/Severna Park) and freshman Kellie Foster (Lothian, MD/St. Mary's), ranked 19th in the region in doubles, blanked Jenn Powell and Pam Kimmelman, 8-0, at No. 1. Sophomore Lydia Bull (Berkeley Heights, NJ/Kent Place School) and sophomore Kate Barston (Darien, CT/Darien) added an 8-2 win over Carly Rotfeld and Danielle Weiss at No. 2, while sophomore Kristen Hossick (Ashton, MD/Mount de Sales Academy) and sophomore Rebecca Davis (Maplewood, NJ/Columbia) downed Jacqi Magner and Maddy Goldfarb, 8-2, at No. 3.

Foster made it 4-0 with a 6-1, 6-0, win over Magner at No. 4 singles. Washington junior Ryoko Sawada (Kushiro, Japan/Kushiro Koryo) clinched the win for the Shorewomen with a 6-3, 6-2, victory at No. 5. Bull added a 6-4, 3-2, retired, win over Kimmelman at No. 2. Goldfarb scored Muhlenberg's first point with a 6-4, 6-2, victory over freshman Carrie Palmer (Dallas, TX/Greenhill School) at No. 6. Powell made it 6-2 with a 7-6(6), 6-4, win over Daciek, the region's 31st-ranked singles player, at No. 1. Hossick capped off the match with a 6-3, 3-6, 10-8, win over Rotfeld at No. 3.

The Shorewomen will play top seed and host Johns Hopkins, ranked 15th in Division III, in a Centennial Conference semifinal match one week from today.

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