FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - The Salisbury University
women's tennis program was swept by rival University of Mary
Washington in the 2009 Capital Athletic Conference championship
match 9-0 on the road Friday afternoon. This is the sixth
consecutive CAC championship for Mary Washington and the 17th
overall in program history.
Mary Washington (17-7), ranked No. 10 in the nation and fifth in
the Atlantic South region, will receive an automatic berth into
next month's NCAA Division III tournament. Salisbury, ranked 10th
in the region, concludes the season with a 14-5 record. SU last won
the CAC women's tennis championship in 2003.
At first doubles, Salisbury's regionally ranked No. 11 team of
senior Anna Marie Kable and junior Jackie
Burr were defeated 8-2 by the third-ranked team of Becky
Morse-Karzen and Kate Malpeli. Burr and Kable finish the season
14-3 at first doubles. The SU second doubles team of juniors
Kelly Fahrner and Rachel Iosue
lost their fourth match of the season to UMW's Courtney Goimarac
and Katie Schafer, ranked 14th in the region, 8-3. At third
doubles, senior Robyn Wendell and sophomore
Angela Tenaglia were swept by Jocelyn Lewis and
Amy Sheetz, 8-0.
SU entered singles play down 3-0, a similar position the Sea
Gulls faced against the Eagles during the regular-season as UMW
blanked SU 9-0.
The singles match to finish came at fourth between Kable and
Malpeli as UMW won 6-0, 6-0. Fahrner was not able to get things
moving at third singles as Schafer won 6-2, 6-2. That point
clinched the conference championship for the Eagles. Burr, ranked
17th in the region, had a tough draw against Morse-Karzen, ranked
fifth in the region, as she lost the first set 6-2 and was forced
to retire down 2-1 in the second set. Iosue, ranked 23rd in the
region at singles, was unsuccessful at second singles as she fell
to Goimarac, ranked 15th in the region, by the score of 7-5, 6-2.
UMW closed out the match with wins at fifth and sixth singles.
Sheetz beat Wendell (fifth singles) and Michelle Meadows beat
Tenaglia (sixth singles) by the identical 6-3, 6-2 score.
