ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S TENNIS
Thursday, September 23, 2004

Etown Improves to 9-0 Overall, 5-0 in Conference, with 9-0 Shutout of Juniata; Blue Jays One Win Away from 1977 Program Record for Longest Season-Opening Win Streak

HUNTINGDON, Pa. --- Elizabethtown continued to tear through the 2004 season Thursday with a 9-0 win over Commonwealth Conference rival Juniata College. The win improves the Blue Jays to 9-0 overall and 5-0 in the conference and ties their season-opening nine-match winning streak in 1984, the second-best season-opening streak in the history of the program. The Etown record for most wins at the start of a season is 10, set by the 1977 team that went 10-0 overall. Juniata drops to 0-3 overall and 0-3 in the conference with the loss.

Heather Lander (Accident, MD/Northern Garrett) earned a shutout win for Etown at number five singles, winning 6-0, 6-0. The number two doubles team of Mel Parenteau (Marydel, MD/North Caroline) and Emma Smith (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) also notched a shutout with an 8-0 win.

Three Etown singles players gave up just one game in their matches, with Smith winning 6-0, 6-1 at number two, and with Parenteau and Lisa Mervine (Reading, PA/Governor Mifflin) each winning 6-1, 6-0 at number three and number six, respectively. The match was Mervine's first in the top six this season.

The number three doubles tandem of Mervine and Kristy Trimbey (Doylestown, PA/Central Bucks West), which had not played together since the middle of the 2003 season, was reunited and won in convincing fashion, 8-1.

At number one singles, Stacy Shapiro (Audubon, PA/Methacton) won 6-2, 6-1, and Lisa Abel (Downingtown, PA/Downingtown), won 6-1, 6-2 at number four. The two teamed up to win 8-2 at number one doubles as well.

Etown individuals will return to action Saturday and Sunday at the ITA Regional Tournament, which is being hosted by Mary Washington College.

Elizabethtown College 9, Juniata College 0
Singles competition:
1. Stacy Shapiro (ETOWN) def. Molly Coursey (JUN) 6-2, 6-1
2. Emma Smith (ETOWN) def. Elizabeth Cooney (JUN) 6-0, 6-1
3. Mel Parenteau (ETOWN) def. Jenny Liu (JUN) 6-1, 6-0
4. Lisa Abel (ETOWN) def. Jenna Taylor (JUN) 6-1, 6-2
5. Heather Lander (ETOWN) def. Anita Desai (JUN) 6-0, 6-0
6. Lisa Mervine (ETOWN) def. Megan Carpenter (JUN) 6-1, 6-0

Doubles competition:
1. Stacy Shapiro/Lisa Abel (ETOWN) def. Anita Desai/Molly Coursey (JUN) 8-2
2. Emma Smith/Mel Parenteau (ETOWN) def. Elizabeth Cooney/Jenna Taylor (JUN) 8-0
3. Lisa Mervine/Kristy Trimbey (ETOWN) def. Megan Carpenter/Jenny Liu (JUN) 8-1