For Immediate Release
WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS–10.6.04
Contact: Christina Cracolici
Phone: (781) 283-2003
E-mail: ccracoli@wellesley.edu
WALTHER DELIVERS AS WELLESLEY EDGES NO. 11 TUFTS 5-4
MEDFORD, MASS. – With the score tied a four
points a piece Wellesley first-year Hali Walther (Sammamish, Wash.)
gutted out a three-set 1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0 win over Tufts’
Alana Ackerman (San Francisco, Calif.) at no. 5 singles to give
the Blue a 5-4 upset victory over 11th-ranked Tufts University,
Wednesday in Malden. With the win Wellesley remains undefeated
at 6-0 while Tufts drops to 5-2 overall.
Wellesley set the stage for the upset when the Blue took a 2-1 lead
after the doubles points were played thanks in part to a huge victory
at second doubles as senior captain Esther Handy (Olympia, Wash.)
and sophomore Emily McDonald (Williamsville, N.Y.) battled Tufts’
Neda Pisheva (Washington, D.C.) and Jennifer Lebj (Katonah,
N.Y.) to a 9-7 win. Wellesley’s third doubles team of Hana
Freymiller (Anchorage, Alaska) and Trish Devine (Westport, Mass.)
won Wellesley’s first doubles point, cruising to an 8-3 victory
over Trina Spear (Miami, Fla.) and Ashley Weisman (Highland Park,
Ill.).
Trailing 2-1 Tufts recovered to win three of the next five singles
matches, winning the first, second and fourth ladder positions,
to knot the match up at four points a piece, setting the stage for
Walther’s dramatic win. Luten, the top-ranked singles
player in New England, defeated Wellesley first-year Jenna Mezin
(Maui, Hawaii) in straight sets 6-0, 6-1 at first singles while
Lebj dispatched Freymiller 6-0, 7-5 at second singles and Spear
overcame a determined McDonald at fourth singles in a three-set
come-from-behind win 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Wellesley’s Devine and Handy each came up big for the Blue
in singles action. Devine scored one of the biggest upsets of her
short intercollegiate career when she downed Tufts’ Kylyn
Deary (Jackson, MI) 6-1, 6-0 at third singles to give Wellesley
a much needed point in singles action while Handy, normally a doubles
specialist, jumped into Wellesley’s singles line-up at sixth
singles to earn a 7-5, 6-0 win, putting Walther and the win on the
line for the Blue.
Walther, who has played sixth and fifth singles for Wellesley,
earned her fifth victory this season to remain undefeated in singles
action as she came from one set behind Ackerman for the win to lift
Wellesley to the 5-4 decision.
NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN'S TENNIS at Tufts: Wellesley 5,
#11 Tufts 4
At Malden, Mass.
1. Jen Luten (Tufts) def. Jenna Mezin (Wellesley)
6-0, 6-1
2. Jen Lebj (Tufts) def. Hana Freymiller (Wellesley)
6-0, 7-5
3. Trish Devine (Wellesley) def. Kylyn Deary (Tufts)
6-1, 6-0
4. Trina Spear (Tufts) def. Emily McDonald (Wellesley)
5-7, 6-3, 6-4
5. Hali Walther (Wellesley) def. Alana Ackerman (Tufts)
1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0
6. Esther Handy (Wellesley) def. Ashley Weisman (Tufts)
7-5, 6-0
DOUBLES
1. Luten/Deary (Tufts) def. Mezin/ Walther (Wellesley)
8-1
2. Handy/McDonald def. Neda Pisheva/Lebj (Tufts)
9-7
3. Freymiller/Devine (Wellesley) def. Spear/Weisman (Tufts)
8-3
TEAM RECORDS: Wellesley 6-0; Tufts 5-2
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