Sophomore Paige Frost is the second-straight Stonehill singles player to win the B-draw at the USTA/ITA East Regional. |
Frost captures B-singles
title after three Skyhawks reach semifinals
White/Martin win B-doubles championship, marking second-straight
regional crown for White
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (September 20, 2010) – The Stonehill College women's tennis team picked up a pair of B-flight championships at the 2010 USTA/ITA Division II East Regional, hosted by Chestnut Hill College and Philadelphia University, today.
Sophomore Paige Frost (Brigantine, N.J./Holy Spirit) captured the B-flight singles title, marking the second-straight year a Stonehill student-athlete has won the bracket, by posting an 8-3 triumph over Goldey Beacom College's Laura Cure, 8-3 this morning. Junior Leah White (Walpole, Mass./Bishop Feehan), who captured the B-singles title last fall, added a B-doubles title to her mantle as she combined with freshman Kaitlyn Martin (Medway, Mass./Medway) for an 8-6 victory over the Southern New Hampshire University pairing of Catalina Echeverry and Kara Pease in today's championship round. It marks the second tournament title of the fall for the Skyhawks pairing after winning the B-flight bracket at last weekend's Salve Regina Grass Courts Invitational at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I.
Leah White |
Kaitlyn Martin |
Frost was one of three Stonehill individuals to advance to the semifinal round of the B-singles bracket heading into Monday's action. Frost was forced to get past her teammate, Martin, in the semifinals, 8-1, while Cure topped Stonehill junior Lindsay Simmons (Wethersfield, Conn./Wethersfield) in the other semifinal, 8-1.
On Sunday, Frost opened with an 8-6 decision over Kristen Jean from Southern New Hampshire. She then defeated Georgian Court University's Natalie Greci, 8-1, in the following round before topping Goldey Beacom's Vanessa Leon, 8-3, in the quarterfinals.
Martin reached the semifinals with wins over Hillary Gall from Georgian Court (8-3), Jann Zastrow from Southern New Hampshire (8-1) and Luciana Pereira of Goldey Beacom (8-3) before being defeated by Frost on Monday morning.
Simmons advanced to the semis with wins Sunday over Jeana Frey of Merrimack (9-8 (10-7)), Southern New Hampshire's Kara Pease (9-7) and classmate Jacquelyn Harrow (North Reading, Mass./North Reading) in the quarterfinals (8-0).
Harrow reached the quarters by advancing past Melanie Bonomo from Goldey Beacom (8-6) and Bentley's Cheryl Martin (8-4) on Sunday. Sophomore Chelsea Haedrich (Islip, N.Y./Islip) was topped by Cure (8-6) in the round of 16 after picking up an 8-4 victory over Merrimack's Nikki Gloria.
White and Martin reached the finals by topping Cure and Leon from Goldey Beacom in the semifinals, 9-7, on Sunday. The duo also defeated Madeline Jurlana and Nikki Gloria from Merrimack, 8-1 in the quarterfinal round.
Frost and Haedrich teamed up to advance to the semifinal round of the B-doubles bracket where they were eliminated by Echeverry and Pease from SNHU, 8-3. The Stonehill tandem opened Sunday with an 8-4 win over Danielle Knott and Maria Parapouras from Chestnut Hill in the quarters.
Senior captain Lindsey Herchel (Hampden, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) was eliminated in the round of 16 of the A-singles championship by Southern New Hampshire's Alena Mukdaprokorn, 3-6, 6-3, 10-3.
Stonehill (1-0, 0-0 NE-10) is off until Wednesday, September 29, when it opens its Northeast-10 Conference schedule at Franklin Pierce University at 3 p.m.
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