The Carthage College women’s tennis team (8-4, 5-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) finished second at the Friday-Saturday, Oct. 9-10 CCIW Women’s Tennis Championship at the Evergreen Racquet Club in Bloomington, Ill. Wheaton College (Ill.) won its 15th league championship and fifth in a row with 72 points, 17 points ahead of second-place Carthage at 55. North Central College was third at 39, followed by Augustana College (Ill.) fourth at 26, Illinois Wesleyan University fifth at 24, Elmhurst College sixth with five points and Millikin University seventh with three points. North Park University no longer sponsors varsity women’s tennis.
Carthage’s Gina Klein (Sr., Darien, Ill./Hinsdale South, 10-7) finished third at number-one singles, winning that playback match, 8-1, over Jenna Richardson from Augustana College (Ill.). Beth Kaufman (Sr., Barrington, Ill., 7-3), won the number-two singles championship with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Kayli Edwards from Wheaton College (Ill.). Hollis McPeek (So., Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest, 12-5) won the number-three singles championship over Wheaton’s Jill Casserly, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(7-3). Kristina Naidicz (So., Kenosha, Wis./Tremper/UW-Oshkosh, 9-6) lost in the number-four singles championship flight to Wheaton’s Lindsey Hallett, 6-1, 6-0. Ashley Morgan (Sr., Afton, Minn./Stillwater Area, 9-5) lost to Wheaton’s Sara Federschmidt in the number-five singles championship round, 6-3, 6-0. Stephanie Zundl (Fr., Sleepy Hollow, Ill./Carpentersville—Dundee-Crown, 7-7) lost to Illinois Wesleyan’s Alissa Goetz, 8-5, in the playback semifinals.
In doubles, Carthage’s Klein and McPeek (12-5) won the number-one title, 6-4, 6-2, over Wheaton’s Kayli Edwards and Elizabeth Worsowicz. The Lady Reds’ number-two team of Kaufman and Naidicz (8-4) lost to Wheaton’s Lindsey Hallett and Kirsten Boyer in the championship flight, Wheaton winning, 6-7(2-7), 6-1, 7-5. Carthage’s number-tandem of Morgan and Amanda Bizub (7-7) finished fourth after losing their third-place match to Emily Doemland and Brittany Reece from Augustana (Ill.), 8-2.