ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TENNIS
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Moravian Edges Elizabethtown 5-4 

BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Elizabethtown lost a Commonwealth Conference match Saturday for the first time since October 5, 2003. Moravian College, last year’s conference runner-up, edged the Blue Jays 5-4 in Bethlehem. Etown is now 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the conference, while Moravian is 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the conference as well.

Etown won two of the three opening doubles matches, as Stacy Shapiro (Audubon, PA/Methacton) and Laurelyn Foderaro (Harleysville, PA/Christopher Dock Mennonite) won 8-1 at number one, and as Heather Lander (Accident, MD/Northern Garrett) and Alice Yu (Athens, GA/Clarke Central) won 8-5 at number three.

However, Etown won just two of the six succeeding singles matches. The Blue Jays’ wins came at number two, as Shapiro won 6-3, 6-4, and at number five, as Lander won 6-1, 7-5. Two of Moravian’s four singles wins came in three sets, with the match at number six going into a set tiebreaker in the third set.

Etown will return to action on the road Monday, September 19 against Franklin & Marshall in a 4:00 p.m. match.

Moravian College 5, Elizabethtown College 4
Singles competition
1. Dyana Swan (MOR) def. Emma Smith (ETOWN) 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
2. Stacy Shapiro (ETOWN) def. Nicole Gruber (MOR) 6-3, 6-4
3. Brittany Popaca (MOR) def. Laurelyn Foderaro (ETOWN) 6-1, 6-2
4. MaryKate Kelly (MOR) def. Alice Yu (ETOWN) 7-5, 6-2
5. Heather Lander (ETOWN) def. Jennel Yelito (MOR) 6-1, 7-5
6. Katie Cooke (MOR) def. Kristy Trimbey (ETOWN) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4)
Doubles competition
1. Stacy Shapiro/Laurelyn Foderaro (ETOWN) def. Dyana Swan/MaryKate Kelly (MOR) 8-1
2. Nicole Gruber/Leah Bradshaw (MOR) def. Emma Smith/Kristy Trimbey (ETOWN) 8-2
3. Heather Lander/Alice Yu (ETOWN) def. Courtney Hall/Margo Kokolus (MOR) 8-5