April 22, 2012
Box Score
BALTIMORE, MD - The eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins women's tennis team closed out its regular season with a pair of wins at Mary Washington and Bryn Mawr. Hopkins beat regional foe Mary Washington, 9-0, and blanked Centennial Conference opponent Bryn Mawr, 9-0. With the win over the Owls, the Blue Jays go unbeaten in conference play for the sixth straight season. Hopkins enters the postseason with a 14-5 overall record.
Hopkins dropped just three games in doubles play en route to a sweep of the three matches against Mary Washington. Sophomore Hailey Hogan and junior Nandita Krishnan needed only the minimum eight games to defeat Michelle Meadows and Jocelyn Lewis at first. Freshman Shannon Herndon and sophomore Abby Clark were 8-2 winners at second over Casey Malcolm and Lindsay Raulston. Freshmen Elaine Baik and Stephanie Rettig lost just one game in an 8-1 defeat of Cassie Bowman and Anna Richman at third.
In singles play versus the Eagles, the Blue Jays swept the six matches in straight sets. Hogan won 6-2, 6-3 over Raulston at first. Krishnan took the win at second with a 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Meadows. Herndon won at third, beating Bowman 6-3, 6-2. Clark took down Alex Ritter, 6-1, 6-1 at fourth. Rettig was a 6-2, 6-0 winner over Malcolm at fifth. And at sixth, junior Andrea Berlinghof needed just 13 games to beat Richman 6-0, 6-1.
Meanwhile up in Swarthmore, PA, Hopkins cruised to a 9-0 win over Bryn Mawr to wrap up its sixth straight regular season conference title. The Blue Jays opened with a sweep of the doubles by 8-1 scores at each position. Senior Courtney Boger and freshman Kaitlin Pfisterer beat Jenny Vogel and Vivien Chen at first. Sophomore Lauren Fields and freshman Shannon Libaw won at second over Eliza Perocchi and Elizabeth Olecki. And a third, it was freshmen Macie Wilkins and Carolyn Drogt with the win over Catherine Austin and Zoe Odenwaider.
Boger earned a 6-0, 6-1 defeat of Perocchi at second, while Pfisterer beat Chen 6-0, 6-2 at first to clinch the win, Wilkns rallied from an early deficit to beat Vogel 2-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-4). Libaw, freshman Kaitlyn Coleman and Drogt won at fourth through sixth respectively by identical 8-0 scores. Libaw beat Olecki at fourth, Coleman was a winner at fifth over Austin and Drogt topped Odenwaider at sixth.
Hopkins will now prepare for the 2012 Centennial Conference Championship. JHU, the top seed, will face the winner of the Washington College-Haverford first round match on Saturday, April 28 in Baltimore.
