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April 24, 2003
Contact: Bob McComas (724) 738-2777 e-mail: robert.mccomas@sru.edu
ROCK WOMEN’S TENNIS TO HOST REGIONAL TOURNAMENT
SRU automatically qualified for the May 2-4 event
by winning the PSAC
championship
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University learned on
Thursday that it will host an NCAA Division II Women's Tennis
Championships East Regional tournament the weekend of May 2-4.
The
Rock earned an automatic berth to regional competition when it won
the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship last
weekend in Bloomsburg.
The regional berth was the fourth straight earned by a
Matt Meredith-coached Rock women’s team and the fifth in the
31-year history of SRU women’s tennis.
The Rock earned regional runner-up honors a year ago to
culminate a 20-5 season, the best in school history.
SRU
has compiled a 19-2 record this spring and is ranked first in the
latest NCAA East Regional poll and 34th in the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division II poll.
The Rock will open regional competition at noon on Friday,
May 2, when it will take on Bentley College of Massachusetts (12-4)
in a regional semifinal match at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 2.
Bentley was the Northeast-10 Conference regular season
tri-champion last fall and does not play a spring schedule.
The other semifinal in Slippery Rock, set for noon on May
2, will pit Indiana U. of Pa. (10-4), which tied for third place in
the PSAC tournament, against New York Athletic Conference champion
Queens College of New York (7-1).
The winner of the May 2 semifinals will play in the
regional championship match, which is set to start at noon on
Saturday, May 3.
The regional champion advances to the Round of 16 of the
national tournament, which will be played in Altamonte Springs,
Fla., the weekend of May 8-11.
The Slippery Rock regional champion will play the winner of a
North Central Regional hosted by Northwest Missouri State (20-5) in
the Round of 16.
Bloomsburg (13-6), the PSAC runner-up and No. 2 ranked
team in the East Region, will host the other East Regional
tournament. The Huskies meet California U. of Pa. (12-8) in one
semifinal, while Millersville (11-3), which tied with IUP for third
place in the PSAC tournament, will meet Northeast-10 champion
Stonehill (13-4).
The
following page shows the complete NCAA Division II Women’s
Tennis Championships bracket.
The
Rock lineup is as follows:
Pos.
PLAYER
Hometown/HighSchool
Yr.
Singles
Doubles
#5/#3 Kelly
Anderson Gahanna,
OH/Gahanna
Sr.
12-5
17-8
#1/#2 Jessica
Bungo Indiana,
PA/Indiana
Jr.
16-5
19-4
#4/#1 Ashley
Michaux Jeannette,
PA/Jeannette
Fr.
21-1
21-2
#3/#1 Christy
Michaux
Jeannette, PA/Jeannette
Sr.
11-1
12-1
#6/#3 Justine
Miller
Roseto,
PA/Bangor
So.
2-8
9-12
#6/#3 Leslie
Noll
Schaefferstown, PA/Eastern Lancaster
So.
5-6
1-6
#2/#2 Ella
Reilly
Randwick,
Australia/Fahan
Sr.
18-4
23-5
NOTE: Positions are shown as singles/doubles
# ROCK PRIDE #
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