ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TENNIS
Tuesay, September 26, 2006

Elizabethtown Blanks Messiah 9-0 in Conference Match

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College improved to 7-1 overall and 5-0 in the Commonwealth Conference with a 9-0 home whitewash of Messiah College Tuesday. Messiah dropped to 6-2 overall and 2-2 in the conference with the loss.

In doubles, Emma Smith (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) and Stacy Shapiro (Audubon, PA/Methacton) won 8-1 at number one for Etown. The second doubles team of Emily Swarr (Manheim, PA/Manheim Central) and Alice Yu (Athens, GA/Clarke Central) won 8-2, and the third doubles tandem of Cathie Martinez (Jamison, PA/Central Bucks South) and Jessica Russell (Kennett Square, PA/Unionville) won 8-3 for the Blue Jays.

At six singles, Heather Lander (Accident, MD/Northern Garrett) won 6-0, 6-0 for Etown, and Yu won 6-0, 6-1 at five singles. At four singles, Martinez won 6-2, 6-1, and Shapiro won 6-2, 6-3 at one singles. Smith won 6-4, 6-4 at two singles, and Swarr won 7-5, 6-2 at three singles.

Elizabethtown will return to action in a doubleheader at home Saturday, September 30 when the Blue Jays host Lebanon Valley College in an 11:00 a.m. conference match and Immaculata University in a 3:30 p.m. non-conference match.

at Elizabethtown, Pa.
Elizabethtown College 9, Messiah College 0
Singles competition
1. Shapiro, Stacy (ETOWN) def. Meredith Rempala (MESSW) 6-2, 6-3
2. Smith, Emma (ETOWN) def. Sadie Sumner (MESSW) 6-4, 6-4
3. Swarr, Emily (ETOWN) def. Leah Bradshaw (MESSW) 7-5, 6-2
4. Martinez, Cathie (ETOWN) def. Christie McGinely (MESSW) 6-2, 6-1
5. Yu, Alice (ETOWN) def. Annie Gotchel (MESSW) 6-0, 6-1
6. Lander, Heather (ETOWN) def. Erin Kriner (MESSW) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Smith, Emma/Shapiro, Stacy (ETOWN) def. Meredith Rempala/Leah Bradshaw (MESSW) 8-1
2. Swarr, Emily/Yu, Alice (ETOWN) def. Sadie Sumner/Annie Gotchel (MESSW) 8-2
3. Martinez, Cathie/Russell, Jessica (ETOWN) def. Christie McGinely/Erin Kriner (MESSW) 8-3