TANDEM LEADS SHOREWOMEN AT REGIONAL TOURNAMENT

FREDERICKSBURG, VA -- Sophomores Jordan Finnegan (Wilmington, DE/Archmere Academy) and Brittany Marshall (Dagsboro, DE/Worcester Prep, MD) reached the quarterfinals of championship draw doubles to lead the Washington College women's tennis team at the ITA Southeast Regional Tournament at the University of Mary Washington this weekend.

Finnegan and Marshall, who were seeded second, rolled past Lucy Schermerhorn and Windsor Tyler of Randolph-Macon, 8-1, in the first round. In the second round, Finnegan and Marshall bested Salisbury's Jillian Poppe and Angela Tenaglia, 8-3. Finnegan and Marshall's run ended at the hands of Carnegie Mellon's Courtney Chin and Cze-Ja Tam, 8-6, in the quarterfinals.

Elsewhere in championship doubles, graduate student Lydia Bull (Berkeley Heights, NJ/Kent Place School) and freshman Campbell McNicol (Mill Neck, NY/St. George's School) defeated Grove City's Megan Bennett and Stacy Moon, 8-1, in the first round. Bull and McNicol were slated to play top-seeded Ashley Herrick and Laura Chen of Carnegie Mellon in the second round but could not compete due to an injury to Bull. Freshman Kat Cohen (Springfield, MA/Williston-Northampton School) and Junior Kristine Depew (Downingtown, PA/Westtown School) lost to Washington and Lee's Virginia Dickinson and Lauren Lukas, 8-0, in the first round and then fell to fifth-seeded Jackie Burr and Melissa Follett of Salisbury, 8-1, in the first consolation round.

Finnegan, who was seeded eighth, opened championship singles with a 6-2, 6-2, win over Mary Washington's Michelle Meadows. She then lost to Yasmine Elamir of Johns Hopkins, 6-3, 6-2, in the second round. Bull also won her first round match in championship singles, besting Swarthmore's Kelsey Johnson, 7-5, 7-5, before falling to ninth-seeded Mallory Willenborg of Johns Hopkins, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, in the second round.

Marshall dropped her first-round match in championship singles to fifth-seeded Courtney Chin of Carnegie Mellon, 6-1, 6-1. She bounced back with an 8-5 win over Washington and Lee's Catherine Reed in the first consolation round. In the second consolation round, she lost to ninth-seeded Jackie Burr of Salisbury, 8-5.

McNicol lost to Washington and Lee's Lukas, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round of championship singles and fell to Ellen Berlinghof of Johns Hopkins, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, in the first consolation round. Cohen dropped her first round match in championship singles to ninth-seeded Blair Brezski of Washington and Lee, 6-1, 6-0, and then lost to Elizabethtown's Madison Pipkin, 8-6, in the first consolation round.

Depew competed in the "Blue 4" draw of singles, losing to Randolph-Macon's Tyler, 6-2, 6-2, in the first round and then defeated Christopher Newport's Dana Burns, 8-2, in the consolation quarterfinals. In the consolation semifinals, she fell to Roanoke's Morgan Thompson, 8-1.