Carthage Women's Tennis Finishes Second at CCIW Championship

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 the title 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.

I Love St. Peter, Minn.; Part 29

Carthage College tennis coach Brady Lindsley made his 29th career trip to Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., on Oct. 2-4, 2009 for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Midwest Regional Men’s Tournament.  Lindsley has made 16 trips with the Carthage men’s tennis team, including 11 Rolex/Intercollegiate Tennis Association tournaments and five NCAA appearances.  He has made 10 other trips to Gustavus Adolphus with the women’s tennis team, including seven Rolex/ITA tournaments and three NCAA appearances.  In addition, Lindsley made the trip three times as a Carthage player between 1992 and 1995.  At 408 miles one way, or 816 round-trip miles, Lindsley has covered 23,664 miles in those 28 trips.  The circumference of Earth is approximately 24,900 miles.