Women's Tennis

October 3, 2009

Trinity Earns Four Singles Semifinals Spots and Plays in Doubles Final Tomorrow

 

SAN ANTONIO – Sunday's singles semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III Women’s Southwest Region Championships will be an all Trinity affair at Delavan Tennis Stadium.

Starting at 8 a.m., junior Katy Poettcker, the No. 1 seed, meets first-year player Katie Budinsky, while fifth-seeded Thavindra Ekanayake, a Tiger first-year, takes on sophomore Katie Griffith, seeded No. 2.

The semifinal winners advance to the championship match at 10 or 10:30 a.m.

The No. 2 team of Poettcker and Ekanayake plays for the doubles championship at noon, against top seeds Lisa Mertz and Britanny Brazell of Hardin-Simmons.

Singles and doubles champions will qualify for the ITA National Small College Championships Oct. 15-18 at Mobile, Ala.

In Saturday’s singles quarterfinals, Poettcker beat Tiger junior teammate Erin Jamison 6-1, 6-1. Budinsky defeated No. 3 seed Michelle Hagler of Texas-Tyler 6-2, 6-4. Ekanayake was a 6-1, 6-3 winner over Lauren Giovanini of UT-Tyler, and Griffith beat No. 8 Lauren Nielsen, also of UT-Tyler, 6-2, 6-3.

Poettcker and Ekanayake defeated the fourth-seeded doubles team of Megan and Mallory Aarhus of Mary Hardin-Baylor 8-4 in the semifinals. Mertz  and Brazell were 8-4 winners over the Tiger team of Griffith and Jamison, the No. 6 seeds.

In the “B” doubles final, UT-Tyler’s Morgan Wilkins and Summer Smith beat Trinity junior Kim Filipowicz and first-year Emily Neale 8-5.

 

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