Box Score The Lake Forest College women's tennis team is now 3-1 after
splitting a pair of matches on Sunday. The Foresters fell 7-2 at
Lawrence University before winning 5-0 at Alverno College.
Tiebreakers were extremely unkind to the Foresters at Lawrence.
The Vikings took all three doubles matches, including a 9-8 (7-5)
decision at #2 and a 9-8 (7-2) final at #3.
Lake Forest victories in singles were turned in by freshmen Aimee
Fadden at #3 (6-1, 6-1) and Nicole
Stroner at #6 (6-4, 6-3). Close losses were again the story for
the visitors. Lawrence's #6 player won 14-12 in a third-set
super-tiebreaker and the Vikings' #2 player prevailed in three
sets. In addition, second-set tiebreakers closed out matches at #1
and #4.
Despite suffering his first loss at the College, Forester head
coach Jason Box liked what he saw from his team. "I was happy with
the fight we had," he began. "We could have easily gone away after
losing the two tiebreakers in doubles but each player believed in
herself and fought for every point. I learned a lot about the
character of our team today."
After the nearly 5-hour contest was over, the team climbed into
the van and headed for Milwaukee to take on Alverno College.
The Foresters had already claimed five victories and were leading
in the other four matches when the contest was ended because of
rain.
Sophomore Melika
Celebic and junior Nonie Carson
won 8-0 at #1 doubles and senior Natalie
Atroshenko and Nicole Stroner matched that result at #3. Fadden
and junior Deepika
Ramachandran posted an 8-2 triumph at #3.
Celebic won 6-1, 6-1 at #1 singles and Nicole Stroner prevailed
6-1 in both sets at #5. Ramachandran did not lose a game in the
first set at #3 and 6-1 first-set victories were turned in by
Fadden at #2, Atroshenko at #4, and senior Michelle
Stroner at #6. All four unfinished matches were early in the
second set when play was halted.