Tennis: WVU Travels to West Point
September 24, 2009 04:50 PM | General
September 24, 2009
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University women’s tennis team will head to West Point, N.Y., on Sept. 25-27, for the ECAC Army Invitational.
WVU will be one of 30 schools set to compete this weekend, including BIG EAST foes Syracuse, Pitt and UConn.
“This is an important trip for us,” says head coach Marc Walters. “We will see a lot of BIG EAST girls so we will need to go deep in each event to really feel good about it.”
On Friday, play will begin at 8 a.m. with the doubles tournament. Senior Stephanie LaFortune and redshirt junior Monique Burton will return as WVU’s flight ‘A’ doubles team.
Newly paired sophomore Catie Wickline and freshman Liv Pettersson will be this weekend’s ‘B’ flight doubles competitors.
Saturday will begin the singles competition with sophomore Kathryn Haught as the flight ‘A’ competitor after her outstanding performance in last weekend’s Stony Brook Classic.
The remaining Mountaineers will compete for the title in the ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’ flight singles competition.
WVU last competed in the Stony Brook Classic where Haught won both of her singles matches, first against Stony Brook’s Aylin Mehler, then a tough third set tiebreaker against Long Island’s Dara Lahens
Other highlights to the weekend were Burton’s win over Houston’s Bryony Hunter in a 6-0, 6-3, match, freshman Emily Mathis’ 6-2, 6-3, win over Houston’s Elena Kazakova, and LaFortune’s victory over Long Island’s Taysha Blessington in a 6-3, 6-4 match.
Despite the lack of continuity in doubles teams, WVU finished the weekend with five wins in the doubles competition.
