WELLESLEY, Mass. - The Wellesley College tennis team knocked off
NEWMAC-rival Babson, 7-2, indoors at the Keohane Sports Center on
Tuesday evening. Wellesley improves to 6-2 overall with a 6-1 mark
in NEWMAC play, while Babson's record now stands at 6-3 overall and
4-2 in the NEWMAC.
The match marks the end of the regular season for Wellesley, who
will head into the NEWMAC playoffs as the second seed. Babson will
close out the regular season next Tuesday, hosting MIT at 2:00 p.m.
in a match rescheduled from September 29th.
Wellesley posted a sweep of the doubles competition to take a
3-0 lead in the match. In the second position, Marie
Wantanabe (Houston, TX) and Meghan Stubblebine (Cumming, GA)
continued their impressive play, blanking their opponents, 8-0, for
the third straight match.
The Blue also posted matching 8-6 wins at first and third
doubles. Mohona Siddique (Chevy Chase, MD) and Jacqueline Shen
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada) stretched their season record to 8-3 at
first doubles, while Nathalie Herman (San Francisco, CA) and
Stephanie Chu (Hilo, HI) picked up their first victory of the
season in the third doubles spot.
After a quick 6-3, 6-0 win from Stubblebine at third singles,
Wellesley got the deciding victory from Wantanabe who was a 6-4,
6-4 winner over Jes Huang (Andover, MA) in the
first singles position. The Blue then stretched the lead to
6-0 with a 7-6(4), 6-0 win from Herman in the fourth spot.
Wellesley's Shen and Babson's Rebecca Stone (Dover,
MA) had a marathon battle in the second singles spot, with
Shen posting a tight 6-7(5), 6-3, 10-8 victory for Wellesley's
seventh point of the match.
Babson got on the board in the fifth singles spot as
Mikaela Stamas (Northborough, MA) recorded a 6-3,
6-3 victory over Mariya Chokova (Kazanlak, Bulgaria) and also got a
win from Gabriela Baez (Quito, Ecuador) in the
sixth spot, a 7-5, 6-1 winner over Elena Bowen (Yardley, PA).
Both teams will next compete at the New England Women's
Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT) at Amherst College, with
the three-day affair beginning on Friday.
NOTE: Taken from a Wellesley College press release.
