Coe
College Tennis Release
Contact: Ryan Workman, Sports Information Director
E-mail: sid@coe.edu
Kohawks win second straight IIAC
championship
IOWA CITY , Iowa - Coe College won its
second Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC)
Women’s Tennis Championship in as many years
Saturday, defeating Luther College, 5-4 in the Championship
match on the Don Klotz Tennis Courts at the Hawkeye
Tennis and Recreation Complex in Iowa City. With the
victory, the Kohawks earn the opportunity to host
the Conference's Automatic Qualifier Tournament in
April where an automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division
III Women’s Tennis Championship will be on the
line.
Coe, which entered the six-team Team
Tournament as the top seed, repeated as champion with
its hard-fought win over the Norse. Coe took two of
three doubles points with an 8-6 win at No. 1 by Molly
Fiala (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Jefferson) and
Andrea Schupbach (Waterloo, Iowa/Columbus)
and a 9-7 win at No. 2 by Hannah Jensen
(Iowa City, Iowa/West) and Hillary Allen
(Fort Collins, Colo./Fort Collins). Fiala and Schupbach
extended the Coe lead to 4-2 with identical 6-2, 6-2
victories at No. 1 and No. 4 singles, respectively,
while Amy Christenson picked up a 6-2, 6-2 win for
Luther at No. 6. The Norse drew even at 4-4 as Fran
Fairfield captured a 6-2, 6-4 win at No. 5 and Alana
Humpal scored a 1-6, 7-5, 10-5 win at No. 2. Hillary
Allen topped Kelsie Allen 7-6 (6), 6-1 at No. 3 singles
to record the deciding point for Coe and clinch the
back-to-back titles.
Luther has placed first or second 25
times in the 26 years of the Iowa Conference Women's
Tennis Championship. The Norse have won 23 titles,
finished runner-up twice (2001, 2007) and third once
(2006).
In Saturday morning's semifinals, Coe
topped Wartburg 5-1, while Luther downed Central 5-0.
Wartburg beat Simpson 5-0 and Central topped Cornell
5-1 Friday evening to advance to the semifinals. Cornell
beat Simpson 5-0 in Saturday's fifth-place match played
at Coe College.
The complete match-by-match results
from the Women's Tennis Team Tournament can be found
here.
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