Doubles Partners Reach Semifinals
At ITA Tennis Championships


9/29/09


West Windsor, N.J. - Mercer County Community College sophomore doubles partners Emily Dow (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Rebecca Wolf (Pennington, N.J.) reached the 'A' flight semifinals before falling at the Second Women's Northeast Regional ITA/Wilson Tennis Championship played at Mercer County Park from September 25-27.

Seeded sixth in the flight, the Dow-Wolf duo fell 8-6 to fourth-seeded Ashley Sherinsky and Kate Tiburzi of Harford Community College (Bel Air, Md.) in the semifinals. Earlier, Dow and Wolf won their Round of 16 and quarterfinal-round matches.

MCCC's other top finishers at the 12-team tournament were quarterfinalists Dow, who won twice in 'A' flight singles, sophomores Kristina Holsman (Hamilton, N.J.) and Maria Eldridge (Lawrenceville, N.J.) in 'B' flight singles, and freshmen Shantell Bacon-Jones (Trenton, N.J.) and Sachiko Nishida (Princeton, N.J.) in 'B' flight doubles.

The championship winners were: 'A' flight singles, eighth-seeded Elizabeth Uhrinec of Onondaga Community College (Syracuse, N.Y.); 'B' flight singles, top-seeded Courtney Brewer of Harford; 'C' flight singles, top-seeded Natalie DeSabato of Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, N.J.); 'A' flight doubles, top-seeded Simone Mrazova and Soizette Simmons of ASA (New York); and 'B' flight doubles, second-seeded Courtney Addis and Amanda Berry of Gloucester County College (Sewell, N.J.).

The 'A' flight singles and doubles winners automatically qualified for the ITA National Small College Championships Oct. 16-19 at Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, Ala.

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