Sep 28, 2008OBERLIN, Ohio – Four different Allegheny women’s tennis players advanced to the second round of singles play before being eliminated at the ITA Central Regional Tournament over the weekend. One doubles team also advanced to the second round, but also fell in its second match.
Lauren Kristofco, Sara Longo (pictured), Alyssa Tom and Elyse Schmitt went 1-1 each in the 64-woman singles tournament. Kristofco and Longo also teamed to go 1-1 in doubles.
Kristofco defeated Albion’s Cassie Simmelink, 6-2, 6-4, before she was eliminated by Chrissy Hu of Chicago, 6-1, 6-0. Meanwhile, Longo ousted Chicago’s Aswini Krishnan, 0-6, 6-1, 6-2, before falling to Denison’s Erin Chadwell, 6-2, 6-0.
After stretching her singles winning streak to eight, freshman Schmitt suffered her first loss in collegiate play. In the first round, she beat Kenyon’s Carly Bond, 6-3, 6-2, but was then knocked out by Kendra Higgins of Chicago, 6-1, 6-0.
Tom claimed a first-round win over Katie Gibbs of Ohio Northern, 7-6(3), 6-2. Then, she lost to Washington’s Erin Swaller, 6-0, 6-0.
Janna Dickerson lost in the first round to Washington’s Kristin Fleming, 6-1, 6-0. Then, in consolation action, she fell to Ariel Lewis of Oberlin, 6-2, 6-2.
Kristofco and Longo opened doubles play with an 8-5 win over the Ohio Northern duo of Bridget Larson and Kaitlyn MacDonald. The Gators then faced the third-seeded team from DePauw – Janelle Arita and Kelly Gebert – and lost, 8-5.
Dickerson and Tom lost to Manchester’s Milli Ridoutt and Jordan Youst, 8-3, while another Gator pair, Margaret Hodgkiss-Lilly and Meggie Oravec, fell to Zandri Strauss and Tricia Wilks of DePauw, 8-0.
