Women's Tennis Sweep Singles in Oberlin Invitational

9/18/2010

Oberlin, Oh. – The Allegheny women’s tennis team enjoyed a great day one to the Oberlin Invitational Friday night ending the opening day of competition unscathed in singles play. All eight of the singles matches ended in wins for the Gators. Cortney O’Brien, Amy Ochsenreiter, Margaret Hodgkiss-Lilly, and Sara Longo won in straight sets. Kathleen McBride had the comeback of the night rallying from being down 5-1 in the second set and forced a tiebreaker in that set to seal the win.

Longo, Shetter, Hodgkiss-Lilly, and Landau were undefeated in singles and doubles on the day. The woman’s tennis team is back in action on Saturday in day two of the Oberlin Invitational.

Singles

Carolyn Shetter (ALL) def. Lilianna Broussalian (DEN) 4-6, 6-1, 6-0

Cortney O'Brien (ALL) def. Morgan Baker (BW) 6-1, 6-0

Amy Ochsenreiter (ALL) def. Jenny Provost (ONU) 6-4, 6-2

Margaret Hodgkiss-Lilly (ALL) def. Kathleen Evers (Case Western) 6-4, 6-1

Elyse Schmitt (ALL) def. Lauren Rife (ONU) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1

Sara Longo (ALL) def. Preeya Shah (OB) 6-4, 6-3

Deb Landau (ALL) def. Emily Pelosi (BW) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5

Kathleen McBride (ALL) def. Julie Christensen (OB) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5)

Doubles

Margaret Hodgkiss-Lilly/Deb Landau (ALL) def. Emily Kiourtsis/Pam Quigney (OWU) 9-8 (8-6)

Christie Gales/Kelsi Wurm (ONU) def. Elyse Schmitt/ Amy Ochsenreiter (ALL) 9-7

Kathleen Evers/Bianca Patel (Case Western) def. Kathleen McBride/ Cortney O'Brien (ALL) 8-0

Sara Longo/Carolyn Shetter (ALL) def. Kate Westenberger/Lilianna Broussalian (DEN) 8-2

Carolyn Shetter with a nice fist pump!

Gators Roll Lakers

9/14/2010
MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Allegheny Men’s tennis team took to the lights and picked up an impressive win over Division-II Mercyhurst College on Tuesday. The lone blemish on the evening for the Gators came in a loss in no. 1 doubles as the Gators nearly pulled off the sweep winning the dual match 8-1.

The wins did not come easy for the Gators as a couple of players were down in their singles matches before making incredible comebacks to secure the wins. No. 1 singles competitor Alex Bonfiglio dropped the first set 3-6 then found himself down 9-5 in a 10-point tiebreaker, and then proceeded to rattle off six straight points for the 11-9 victory. Pat Cole came back from a 7-2 disadvantage in a 10-point tiebreaker but rallied for eight straight points to win the match in the fourth flight. Jonathon Jordan handled his match 6-1, 6-1 to remain undefeated in the fall for the Gators competition in flight six.

Alex Bonfiglio puts an overhead away.

Allegheny Challenges D-II IUP in Championship Match

MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Gators blew past their opening round opponent NAIA representative Walsh University, 8-1 on Saturday to advance to the championship match of the 7th Annual Nancy J. Heath Gator Invitational. The Gators only dropped one matchup as Walsh’s Allison St. George knocked off Elyse Schmitt (3-6, 6-2, 10-8) in No. 3 singles. The lone blemish in round one set up a meeting with D-II Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who was regionally ranked 8th at the end of year last spring in the Atlantic Region.

The Crimson Hawks held strong in singles competition suffering one defeat as Deb Landau defeated IUP’s Ranvita Mahto (6-4, 6-3). The brightest spot of the tournament came in doubles action as the Gators No.1 doubles duo of Carolyn Shetter and Sara Longo bested the No. 1 pairing of Katie Eaton and Ranvita Mahto (8-6). IUP worked around the two defeats to earn the team victory over the Gators (7-2) and take the tournament championship in the process.

Gators Reach Championship; No. 8 Carnegie Mellon Takes Crown

9/11/2010

MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Robertson Tennis Complex played host to the 7th Annual Nancy J. Heath Gator Invitational on Saturday. The Gators pushed passed NAIA competitor Walsh University in the first match of the tournament 6-3. After losing the No.1 singles match, the Gators rallied to sweep the No. 2-6 singles matches and picked up a No.2 doubles win to secure the team win and advance them to the championship match against No. 8 Carnegie Mellon.

The Tartans garnered the national ranking from a year ago and proved to be too much for the Gators in the championship match taking the team win 7-2. The Gators were able to salvage the singles matchups picking up a win in the No. 6 singles as Jonathan Jordan took down Mason Radford (6-2, 6-4). The Blue and Gold were also able to avoid a sweep in doubles action as the duo of Max Hennessy and Uros Predic knocked off the Tartans No.1 doubles team of McTaggart and Alex Nemerov. Nemerov, ended last spring ranked 31st as a singles competitor in Division III.

Coach Luteran's Blue Team took Gold in Annual Blue/Gold Scrimmage

Where's the flood Coach Riskie?

The Allegheny Tennis Blue/Gold Scrimmage is an annual inter-squad scrimmage. Coach Luteran led his Blue team over Coach Riskie's Gold team with an 11-9 decision. The losing Coach has to wear a ridiculous outfit at the very next practice and this year's outfit did not disappoint the ridiculous meter.