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Eastern Championships
Bucknell Women's Tennis Sends Athletes To Final Round At Army
9/16/2007 8:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Sept. 16, 2007
WEST POINT, N.Y. - Freshman Lauren Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's School for Girls) and sophomore Tania Varela (Quito, Ecuador/Alliance Academy) of the Bucknell women's tennis team are set to play in the final round for the No. 2 doubles flight on Sunday after winning their semifinal match at the ITA Eastern Championships Saturday.
Lucido and Varela started the weekend with a bye in the second doubles flight and went on to defeat Kristen Liu and Whit Squires of Rhode Island, 8-0 on Friday. Lucido and Varela, the top-seeded players in the second doubles flight, faced Katherine Klein and Coleen Speaker (5th-seeded in the No. 2 doubles flight) of West Virginia in the quarterfinal round on Saturday for an 8-3 win. The duo went on to play Maude Lecluyse and Laura Maurillo of Massachusetts in the semifinal for an 8-4 win and will face Katherine Arlak and Christine Tran of Rutgers (the No. 2 seed in the flight) for the final on Sunday.
Bucknell's No. 1 doubles team of sophomore Carlin Calcaterra (Hindsdale, Ill./Hindsdale Central) and junior Paulina Gamboa (Mexico City, Mexico/Greengates School) made the quarterfinal round Saturday after defeating Tina Jacob and Diana Toia of Buffalo, 8-6, and Amy McDevitt and Ayashi Sinha of Providence, 8-1. The duo faced top-seeded Anela Dujsic and Polina Zaretser of Rutgers Saturday and dropped the match, 8-2.
In the second singles consolation flight, sophomore Kirstyn Sotak (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Hathaway Brown) played Ashley Harvey of Long Island in the third round on Saturday. Sotak dropped the match to Harvey, 8-3. Sotak defeated Jessica Ferarra of Siena, 8-4, in the first round, and had a bye in the second round Friday.
The ITA Eastern Championships will wrap up Sunday at Army.
