Box Score ANNVILLE, Pa. – After winning a school-record 13 matches, the fourth-seeded Lycoming College women's tennis team bowed out of the MAC Commonwealth Championship semifinals, falling to top-seeded Lebanon Valley, 5-1, at the Shankroff Tennis Center on Wednesday, May 3.
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The Warriors finished the 2016-17 season with a 13-6 record, besting the school record of 12 wins set in 1998, while Lebanon Valley improved to 14-4 overall and advanced to the conference championship match on Saturday, May 6, where they will face Messiah.
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Freshmen
Hannah Summerson (South Williamsport, Pa./South Williamsport) and
Julia Nagle (Altoona, Pa./Altoona) won their 15
th match of the year, winning six straight games in an 8-2 win over Alyssa Potosnak and Megan Williams. The win helped the duo improve to 15-6 on the year, three wins more than any other doubles team in program history.
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Lebanon Valley claimed a win at No. 3 doubles soon after and took the lead with a narrow, 9-7 win at No. 1 doubles. Marla Scacchitti and Becky Pierpont held serve in the 16
th game of the pro-set after there were four straight breaks in the match with senior
Sophie Herzing (St. Mary's, Pa./Elk County Catholic) and junior
Kaitlin Hallabuk (Towanda, Pa./Towanda Area).
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In singles play, Lebanon Valley was able to finish off the match, winning at No. 2, 3 and 5.
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Summerson, who tied the school record with 14 singles wins, was leading in her match, 5-4 in the first set with Scacchitti when the clinching match was won, leaving her tied with Cricket Temple's total of 14 wins from 1999 and 2000.
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Summerson finished the year holding the Lycoming records for singles (14), doubles (15) and combined wins (29) in a year, as she broke Temple's record of 24 combined wins set in 2001 and along with teammate Nagle, she broke the mark of 12 doubles wins set by Jamie Kaiser in 1998.
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Hallabuk and Nagle each won 12 singles matches, leaving them tied for fourth in school history, as they had identical 12-8 overall records. Senior
Mariah Durrant (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) also won 10 singles matches, good for 15
th in the school record book.
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Nagle and Hallabuk also chart high on the school's single-season combined wins list, with Nagle's 27 combined wins second behind only Summerson and Hallabuk's 20 (12 singles and eight doubles) in ninth in program history.
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Match Results
Lebanon Valley 5, Lycoming 1
Doubles
1.Marla Scacchitti/Becky Pierpont (LVC) def.
Sophie Herzing/
Kaitlin Hallabuk, 9-7
2.
Hannah Summerson/
Julia Nagle (LC) def. Alyssa Potosnak/Megan Williams, 8-2
3. Melanie Haas/Elise Hanks-Witaszek (LVC) def.
Kimberleigh Parroccini/
Brittany Lenze, 8-4
Singles
1.
Hannah Summerson vs. Marla Scacchitti, 5-4, unf.
2. Becky Pierpont (LVC) def.
Sophie Herzing, 4-6, 1-6
3. Melanie Haas (LVC) def.
Kaitlin Hallabuk, 1-6, 0-6
4.
Julia Nagle vs. Alyssa Potosnak, 0-6, 2-3, unf.
5. Elizabeth Drda (LVC) vs.
Kimberleigh Parroccini, 0-6, 0-6
6.
Mariah Durrant (LC) vs. Megan Williams, 0-6, 2-3
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3,1); Singles (3, 5, 2)
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