SAN ANTONIO - Sunday's singles semifinals of
the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III Women's
Southwest Region Championships will be an all Trinity affair at
Delavan Tennis Stadium.
Starting at 8 a.m., junior Katy Poettcker, the No. 1 seed, meets
first-year player Katie Budinsky, while fifth-seeded Thavindra
Ekanayake, a Tiger first-year, takes on sophomore Katie Griffith,
seeded No. 2.
The semifinal winners advance to the championship match at 10 or
10:30 a.m.
The No. 2 team of Poettcker and Ekanayake plays for the doubles
championship at noon, against top seeds Lisa Mertz and Britanny
Brazell of Hardin-Simmons.
Singles and doubles champions will qualify for the ITA National
Small College Championships Oct. 15-18 at Mobile, Ala.
In Saturday's singles quarterfinals, Poettcker beat Tiger junior
teammate Erin Jamison 6-1, 6-1. Budinsky defeated No. 3 seed
Michelle Hagler of Texas-Tyler 6-2, 6-4. Ekanayake was a 6-1, 6-3
winner over Lauren Giovanini of UT-Tyler, and Griffith beat No. 8
Lauren Nielsen, also of UT-Tyler, 6-2, 6-3.
Poettcker and Ekanayake defeated the fourth-seeded doubles team
of Megan and Mallory Aarhus of Mary Hardin-Baylor 8-4 in the
semifinals. Mertz and Brazell were 8-4 winners over the Tiger
team of Griffith and Jamison, the No. 6 seeds.
In the "B" doubles final, UT-Tyler's Morgan Wilkins and Summer
Smith beat Trinity junior Kim Filipowicz and first-year Emily Neale
8-5.
