Goucher Produces Three Champions in Singles Play
TOWSON, Md. — A Goucher player advanced to the finals in all four singles flights at this weekend's Goucher Open and three of the four were crowned champions today.
Ruff, Zick Secure Flight II Doubles Title by Going 3-0
TOWSON, Md. — A Goucher player advanced to the finals in all four singles flights at this weekend's Goucher Open and three of the four were crowned champions today.
Meaghan Lee (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill) reached the championship match in Flight II by downing Rakia Otoo from Cedar Crest 6-1, 6-1 in the quarterfinals and Eileen Barker from Messiah 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals. In the finals, Lee turned back Brittany Hodge from Moravian 6-3, 6-4.
In Flight III, Alex Walsh (Greens Farm, Conn./Staples) opened with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Chelsea Barnett from McDaniel and then pinned a 6-0, 6-0 setback on Courtnie Lambert from Moravian to earn a spot in the finals against Jordan Crawley from Rutgers-Camden. Walsh defeated Crawley 6-3, 6-2.
Addie Maxwell (Southwest Harbor, Maine/Mount Desert Island) emerged from Flight IV as the champion as she topped Celia Hernandex from Moravian 6-3, 6-2 in the finals. She took care of Dwynedd-Mercy's Chelsea Jones 6-3, 6-2 in the quarterfinals and Rutgers-Camden's Avery Forte 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals.
Maxwell is 6-0 in singles play in 2012-13.
The only loss a Goucher player suffered either day in singles competition was by Ariel Lin (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) in the Flight I finals. After beating Messiah's Jennifer Kitlan 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals and Rutgers-Camden's Amanda Hickman 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals, she bowed in the championship match to Rachel Fein from Gwynedd-Mercy 6-3, 6-4.
Goucher's Kelsey Turner (Philadelphia, Pa./Germantown Friends) and Kirsten Cianci (Bolton, Conn./Bolton) finished as the runners-up in Flight I of the doubles comptition by going 2-1. In the finals, they fell to Melissa Follett and Olivia Sonnabend from Moravian 6-2, 6-2.
There were only four doubles teams entered in Flight II and Emily Ruff (Easton, Md./Easton) and Alyssa Zick (Stewartstown, Pa./Kennard-Dale) from Goucher were declared champions based on the 3-0 record they achieved in a round-robin format.