The Carthage College women's tennis team (7-4, 4-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) traveled to St. Peter, Minn., on Friday-Saturday, Sept. 25-26 to play in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Midwest Regional Tournament at Gustavus Adolphus College.
In first-round singles play on Sept. 25, Michelle Daciolas from Wisconsin-Whitewater defeated Carthage's Gina Klein (Sr., Darien, Ill./Hinsdale South, 5-5), 6-4, 6-7, 10-5. The Lady Reds' Hollis McPeek (So., Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest, 6-4) defeated Marian CheLeon from the College of St. Scholastica by default. Beth Kaufman (Sr., Barrington, Ill., 4-2) defeated St. Scholastica's Callie Conda, 6-1, 6-2. Coe College's Hillary Allen defeated Kristina Naidicz (So., Kenosha, Wis./Tremper/UW-Oshkosh, 6-4), 6-4, 6-3. In second-round action, also on Sept. 25, Carlton College's Kathryn Schmidt eliminated McPeek (6-5), 6-2, 6-1, and Sam Frank from Gustavus Adolphus eliminated Kaufman (4-3), 6-1, 7-6.
In first-round doubles action on Sept. 25, Klein and McPeek (8-4) defeated Baily Edwards and Rebecca Snyder from St. Mary's University, 8-6, while Kaufman and Naidicz (5-2) defeated Katie McDonald and Jenny Marayama from Wisconsin-La Crosse, 8-3. In second-round doubles on Sept. 26, Klein and McPeek (9-4) defeated Macalester College's Stephanie Lee and Amanda Wenzel, while Kaufman and Naidicz (5-3) lost to Coe College's Andrea Schupbach and Michelle Schupbach, 8-6. In the doubles quarterfinals on Sept. 26, Klein and McPeek (9-5) fell to Megan Gaard and Ali Oneal from Gustavus Adolphus by an 8-5 margin.
