BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin Wallace University women's tennis team defeated Ohio Athletic Conference and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University, 5-4, today (Wednesday, April 22, 2009). The match was moved indoors to Racquet Club East in Bedford.
With its win, the BW women are now 10-9 overall, unbeaten in the OAC at 7-0 and have won 10 of their last 11 matches, including seven straight. The win sets up an OAC showdown with arch-rival Ohio Northern University on Thursday in Berea. ONU enters tomorrow's match in Berea with a 14-5 overall and 7-0 OAC slate. BW and ONU also played in last year's OAC Championship match with BW winning 5-1 for its second straight OAC crown.
With its loss today, JCU falls to 8-9 overall and 4-3 in the OAC.
In doubles play, BW jumped out to a 2-1 lead as it earned wins from the number two duo of freshman Jenny Greene (Worthington/ Thomas Worthington) and senior Academic All-OAC player Alyssa Trampert (Orchard Park, N.Y./ Orchard Park) and the No.3 duo of junior Andrea Essig (Conneaut/ Ashtabula Edgewood) and sophomore Emily Pelosi (Uniontown/ Green). The win at No.2 ran Greene and Trampert's record to 12-13 overall while Essig and Pelosi are now 10-9 at No.3.
In singles play, the teams each won three matches. For the Yellow Jackets, sophomore No.1 player Caitlyn Pecinovsky (Whitehall/ Columbus Bishop Hartley), this week's Co-OAC Player of the Week, Trampert at No.5 and sophomore Katy Marshall (Medina/ Senior) at No.6 all won in straight sets. Wins their wins, Pecinovsky is now 10-14, Trampert is 17-7 and Marshall is 13-9.
Following tomorrow's matchup with ONU, BW will end the OAC regular season on Saturday, April 25 at Wilmington College at 12:00 p.m. The OAC Tournament begins next week with quarterfinal action on campus sites on April 28-29. The OAC Final Four is set for May 1-2 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio with Ohio Nothern serving as the host school.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at (440) 826-2327 and via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu or Assistant SID Nick Minerd by phone at (440) 826-2780 and via e-mail at nminerd@bw.edu. To contact Head Coach Jack Bethlenfalvy, please call him at (440) 843-5931 or e-mail him at jbethlen@bw.edu. The athletics FAX can be reached at (440) 826-2192. More information on women's tennis may be accessed on the BW athletics page at www.bw.edu/athletics.
Final Aggate Results:
Baldwin Wallace University at John Carroll University
Wednesday, April 25, 2009 at Racquet Club East in Bedford, Ohio
Final Score: Baldwin Wallace -- 5, JCU -- 4
SINGLES MATCHES: No. 1: Pecinovsky (BW) defeated Ciccolini (JCU), 6-3, 6-1; No. 2: Marchlen (JCU) def. Greene (BW), 6-2, 6-3; No. 3: Skaggs (JCU) def. Essig (BW), 6-2, 6-0; No. 4: Navatsyk (JCU) def. Pelosi (BW), 6-0, 4-6, 6-3; No. 5: Trampert (BW) def. Pappis (JCU), 6-0, 6-0; No. 6: Marshall (BW) def. Mora (JCU), 6-0, 6-1.
DOUBLES MATCHES: No. 1: Ciccolini-Skaggs (JCU) def. Pecinovsky-Marshall (BW), 8-5; No. 2: Greene-Trampert (BW) def. Machlen-Navatsyk (JCU), 8-4; No. 3: Essig-Pelosi (BW) def. Bouchahine (JCU), 8-5.
