ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TENNIS
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Elizabethtown Defeats Juniata 8-1; Heather Lander Becomes Second Blue Jay to Reach 100 Career Combined Win Plateau 

HUNTINGDON, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College improved to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the Commonwealth Conference Tuesday with an 8-1 road victory over Juniata College, which fell to 2-2 overall and 0-2 in the conference with the loss. The victory also saw Etown senior Heather Lander (Accident, MD/Northern Garrett) win her 100th career match combined between singles and doubles. Lander became just the second Blue Jay ever, as well as the second in as many years, to reach the 100 career combined win plateau.

Heather Lander '07 became the second Blue Jay to win 100 career matches.

In the doubles pro sets, Etown swept Juniata to open the match. At one doubles, Emma Smith (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) and Stacy Shapiro (Audubon, PA/Methacton) won 8-1. At two, Emily Swarr (Manheim, PA/Manheim Central) and Alice Yu (Athens, PA/Clarke Central) won an 8-0 shutout. At three doubles, Natalie Jamieson (Ellicott, MD/Howard) and Lander won 8-3. The win was the 99th of Lander’s career, and it was the first intercollegiate competition ever for Jamieson, a first-year student.

In singles, Shapiro won 6-2, 6-3 at two, while Swarr won 6-4, 6-2 at three. Cathie Martinez (Jamison, PA/Central Bucks South) won 6-2, 6-2 at four singles for Etown, while Yu won a 6-0, 6-0 shutout, her third singles shutout of the season in four matches, at number five. In eight singles sets thus far this season, Yu, who was named the conference’s Player of the Week yesterday, has surrendered just one game.

Lander picked up career win number 100 in a 6-1, 6-0 victory at six singles. The win pushed her career singles record to 53-5, her career doubles record to 47-11, and her career combined record to 100-16. She is currently four singles wins behind the Elizabethtown career singles victory record of 57 set by Jodi Weidman ’91, ten doubles wins shy of the Elizabethtown career doubles record of 57 set by Kristy Trimbey ’06, and 12 total wins away from the combined career record of 112 set by Trimbey.

Elizabethtown will return to action Saturday, September 16 at home against Moravian College in a 1:00 p.m. Commonwealth Conference match.

At Huntingdon, Pa.
Elizabethtown 8, Juniata 1
Singles competition
1. Amanda Fontana (JUN) def. Smith, Emma (ETOWN) 6-2, 7-5
2. Shapiro, Stacy (ETOWN) def. Caroline Weisser (JUN) 6-2, 6-3
3. Swarr, Emily (ETOWN) def. Maggie Wolenter (JUN) 6-4, 6-2
4. Martinez, Cathie (ETOWN) def. Aggie Kwon (JUN) 6-2, 6-2
5. Yu, Alice (ETOWN) def. Molly Coursey (JUN) 6-0, 6-0
6. Lander, Heather (ETOWN) def. Ariel Otruba (JUN) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Smith, Emma/Shapiro, Stacy (E) def. Caroline Weisser/Maggie Wolenter (J) 8-1
2. Swarr, Emily/Yu, Alice (E) def. Amanda Fontana/Aggie Kwon (J) 8-0
3. Jamieson, Natalie/Lander, Heather (E) def. Molly Coursey/Liana James (J) 8-3