Women's Tennis Putting On Strong Showing During Fall Season
October 25, 2000 | Women's Tennis
Oct. 25, 2000
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The Boston College women's tennis team continued its strong fall season showing last week as the team split up to compete in two separate tournaments. Senior co-captains Cynthia Tow and Kiren Fernando each competed in the Riviera ITA All-American Idividula tournament in Los Angeles, while the remaining team members traveled to Hanover, N.H., to take part in the Dartmouth Invitational.
Tow, ranked 70th in the nation in the ITA's preseaon rankings, solidified her status as a national competitor by defeating the No.5 player in the country, Pepperdine's Monica Horvath, 6-4, 6-2, in the first round of the tourney's qualifying round. Unfortunately, Tow dropped her second round match to Baylor's Vida Mulec, 6-2, 2-6, 3-6, and was eliminated from the draw.
Fernando experienced a similar fate in her pre-qualifying draw. In her first round match, she topped Texas A&M's Leah Killen 6-4, 6-2, but then fell to Tennessee Tech's Laura Hernandez 7-5, 6-4, in her second round match.
As for the rest of coach Nigel Bentley's squad, sophomore Jessica Engle captured the flight "D" championship at the Dartmouth Invitational by defeating Seton Hall's Jasmine Wolcott in the flight's championship match. Also performing well for BC at the Dartmouth Invite were junior Ruta Vaeitas, who reached the finals of the "C" flight before bowing out to Temple's Laura Ercegovic and the doubles pairing of Engle and sophomore Brooke Moldenhauer, who won two of their three matches in the doubles "b" flight to take fifth place. Ironically, their fifth-place victory came at the expense of Eagle teammates Veitas and Anisha Fernando.
The Eagles look to wrap up the fall season by sending one or more players to the ITA Tournament in Williamsburg, Va., held November 4-7. The tournament is the grand finale of the collegiate fall season, and a strong Eagle showing will certainly solidify BC's stance as one of the best teams in the nation entering the spring 2001 season.
