Harvard Defeats Terriers In ECAC Tennis Play
October 16, 2000 | Women's Tennis
Senior Carrie Rose (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and freshman Lindsey Dynof (Colts Neck, NJ) were the only Terriers to win matches as B.U. bowed to Harvard, 5-2, on October 13 in the ECAC Tournament hosted by Princeton.
It was the second match of the day for B.U, which beat Cornell, 5-2, earlier in the day.
Rose needed a tiebreaker in the second set but won her number two singles match in straight sets. In the opener, she looked impressive with a 6-2 win and then needed a 10-8 victory in the tiebreaker to win the second set, 6-5.
Dynof continued her impressive play this fall with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Andrea Magyera. Magyera had played number one singles for Harvard in the past so the win by Dynof at number three singles was even more impressive.
In other singles matches, junior Christina Causway lost at number one, 4-6, 2-6. Causway was hobbled by blisters that developed in the Cornell match and was limited in her mobility against Harvard.
At number four, freshman Elena deMendoza lost, 2-6, 0-6; sophomore Alana Marcu (Leonia, NJ) lost at number five, 6-3, 4-6, 0-6; and freshman Hannah Bartell (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) lost at number six, 1-6, 2-6.
Harvard swept the three doubles matches and thus earned the one point that went to the team that won the overall doubles competition.
Causway and Dynof lost at number one, 8-6, in the eight-game pro-set, Rose and deMendoza lost, 8-7, and Marcu and senior HsiaoNing Ham (Jersey City, NJ) lost, 8-1.
"I was very disappointed in not being able to beat Harvard," said Terrier head coach Lesley Sheehan. "I felt they were very beatable.
"I was particularly disappointed in how our doubles teams played," the coach went on. "We had been experimenting with the makeup of each team, and they had played well against Cornell."
