2008 Woodie Awards
Women's Tennis Dominant Against Wagner
Travis Flynn Staff Reporter
Issue date: 4/7/05 Section: Sports
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"Overall I think the team is really playing well right now," said Katelyn Kittredge, a senior from Medfield, MA. "Lissa (Von Brecht) has won four straight singles matches at number four, beating URI, PC, LIU, and Wagner. Pam (Pillo) and Lauren (Galatie) have been playing extraordinarily well at number one and number two."
A competition consists of seven points with six coming from the singles matches and the tiebreaker going to the team that wins the best two out of three double matches.
Each of the six highest ranked players from the two teams faces off against a corresponding opponent of the same rank. Each team has three doubles that compete to decide the seventh point.
Galatie, a junior from Monroe, and Pillo, a sophomore from Shelton, fought to win the top doubles match eight games to four.
Kittredge and Von Brecht, a junior from Cumberland Foreside, ME, dominated their doubles match, winning eight games to zero.
Jessica Schnell, a freshman from Schenectady, NY, and Darcy Shoop, a junior from Rocky Hill, improved their personal records by winning singles matches. Kittredge, Von Brecht, Galatie, and Pillo also recorded singles wins.
Each player took control of her match as the team combined to win 60 of the 65 singles games Saturday, holding every Wagner opponent to under three games.
Kittredge and Von Brecht picked up the lone match victories Friday against LIU as the Pioneers disappointingly lost 5-2.
"It was a great warm-up match [for the NEC tournament] in a few weeks and we are all confident that we will beat them come tournament time, considering they are seeded two and we are three," said Kittredge.
The singles loss by Galatie was her first of the spring. The two-time Prince/NEC Tennis Player of the Week is now 8-1.
Pillo is also 8-1 for the spring, dropping her first match to LIU's Veronica Apostu-Efremov, a native of Romania.
Pillo delivered a timely victory Wednesday against Providence College, despite dangerous distractions, to clinch the 4-3 victory for Sacred Heart.
The Providence College tennis courts are situated behind the softball field, and PC's softball team was competing against Harvard at the time.
"Our points were occasionally interrupted by foul balls," said Pillo.
"Basically, we were on and we wanted to win and it was a great victory for the team," said Kittredge.
The team is young and improving; Kittredge is the lone senior. There are three juniors, one sophomore, and three freshmen currently on the team.
"Jess (Schnell) is definitely [the] most improved [player]. She is a freshman playing two doubles and five singles. She's working hard and is very deserving of her position," said Pillo.
Schnell and Shoop are 4-1 in number two doubles play this spring.
The women's tennis team will host University of Hartford on Sunday and Stony Brook University on Wednesday.
The NEC championships will take place Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23 in West Windsor, NJ.