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January 24, 2007 |
LIMESTONE WOMEN’S TENNIS PICKED 2ND IN CVAC PRESEASON POLL |
THOMASVILLE, N.C.—The Limestone College women’s tennis team was picked to finish second in the 2007 Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference preseason poll. Alexandra Gade and Jennifer Snaider were named Players to Watch. The Lady Saints had one of their best seasons since joining NCAA Division II last year, as the squad earned its first national ranking and highest finish ever in the CVAC. The Lady Saints had a 19-9 overall record and a nearly perfect 9-1 CVAC record to finish No. 2 in the conference standings. Limestone had a terrific run in the conference tournament as the women advanced to the championship match where they fell to the defending CVAC Champion, No. 24-ranked Erskine College. All-CVAC honorees Jennifer Snaider, Alexandra Gade, and Jessie Griffin are back, as well as CVAC-All-Tournament team member Lee Cribb. The Saints had a successful fall, competing at the ITA Regional and the CVAC Individual tournament. The Saints are the only other nationally ranked CVAC team, at No. 38 in the Fila Intercollegiate Tennis Association preseason rankings heading into the spring season.
CVAC Pre-Season Coaches Poll (1st place votes in parenthesis) 1. Erskine College (10) 100 2. Limestone College (1) 91 3. Mount Olive College 75 T-4. Pfeiffer University 67 T-4. Queens University of Charlotte 67 6. Barton College 58 7. Coker College 46 8. Anderson University 37 9. Converse College 28 10. St. Andrews Presbyterian College 19 11. Lees-McRae College 17 |
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