Women's Tennis Team Blanks Delaware To Win Conference Title

April 23, 2000

Selin Nassi won her match 6-2, 6-1

The top-seeded Terrier women's tennis team won its seventh straight America East title on April 22nd with a 6-0 win over second-seeded Delaware at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York.

With the win, the Terriers will receive the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament for the second straight year. Last season, the first in which the America East champion received the automatic berth, B.U. traveled to Pepperdine University.

B.U. will now wait to see who they will be playing and where they will be traveling for this year's NCAA Tournament. The Terriers dominated play in this year's league tournament, as no player lost a match or even lost a set.

En route to the win, B.U. blanked eighth-seeded Drexel, 9-0, in the first match, then shut out fourth-seeded Hofstra, 5-0, in the semifinals, and finally blanked the number-two seed Blue Hens, 6-0, in the title match. For Delaware, the frustration of playing B.U. continued, as this was the seventh straight year the Blue Hens finished second to the Terriers for the league title. The first five years, B.U. edged Delaware when the tournament was based on total points and not played under the current team format. The last two years, B.U. defeated the Blue Hens in the championship match.

In this year's matchup, the Terriers' number-one seed Selin Nassi (Fort Lauderdale, FL) defeated Elly Giese, 6-2, 6-1; number-two seed Christina Causway (Wilson, NC) eliminated Kristin Wasniewski, 6-0, 6-1; number-three Karina Shostakovsky (Atlanta, GA) downed Karen Greenstein, 6-1, 6-1; number-four seed Carrie Rose (Bloomfield Hills, MI) defeated Erin Kamen, 6-3, 6-0; number-five Chrissy Cerretani (Reading, MA) downed Jessica Wilkes, 6-2, 6-4; and number-six Alana Marcu (Leonia, NJ) eliminated Tracy Guerin, 6-3, 6-1.

Since the match was decided after the singles matches, no doubles matches were played.

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