Dartmouth's Scott in Finals at Collegiate Invitational

Flushing Meadows, N.Y. - Dartmouth women's tennis freshman Molly Scott (Trabuco Cyn, Calif.) will play for the A Flight Championship tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. at the National Tennis Center's College Invitational. Sophomore Mary Beth Winingham (Carmel, Ind.) was also nearly a finalist for the Big Green in the B Flight, but ultimately was stopped in a third-set, semifinal super-breaker by the flight's top seed.

Scott was the bane of Texas A&M's existence today, ousting two Aggie players, including top-seeded Elze Potgieter in the semifinals. In the quarterfinal Scott rallied from a set down to beat A&M's Anna Blagodarova 1-6, 6-2, 10-4. In the semis, Scott took out Potgieter, who has a pre-season national ranking of #85, 7-6 (3), 6-3. Tomorrow Scott faces Ekaterina Burduli of Washington State, who has a pre-season national ranking of #113 and who received a default in her semifinal from #2 seed Kate Kosminskaya of Penn.

In the B Flight, Winingham ousted 7th-seeded Lenka Hojckova of NC State 6-2, 6-3 in her quarterfinal matchup. In the semis, she got off to a fast start against Penn's top-seeded Julia Koulbitskaya, winning the first set 6-2. After falling behind 4-1 in the second, Winingham pulled back to 4-3 but dropped the set 6-3. Koulbitskaya took an early lead in the super-breaker and ultimately won 10-3.

In the C Flight quarterfinal, sophomore Carley Markovitz (St. Louis, Mo.) was stopped by Cornell freshman Ruxandra Dumitrescu 6-4, 6-0. Dumitrescu upset the C Flight's top seed in the first round. In the B Flight doubles quarterfinal, Winingham and senior tri-captain Maggie Suydam (Marblehead, Mass.) were stopped 8-4 by Yale's Janet Kim and Sarah Lederhandler, who will play for the doubles title tomorrow.

In other action, senior tri-captain Megan Zebroski (Port Washington, N.Y.) won her A Flight back draw match over Penn State's Leyla Morzan 2-6, 6-4, 10-8. Sophomore Jesse Adler (Winnetka, Ill.) won her B Flight back draw match over Washington State's Marina Nicolas 6-4, 5-7, 10-8. Suydam won her C Flight back draw match over Brown's Brett Finkelstein 6-0, 2-6, 10-5. Freshmen Georgiana Smyser (Houston, Texas) and Ryan Reichel (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) both won their consolation matches in the D Flight, with Smyser downing Cornell's Ashley Ebbert 6-0, 6-0 and Reichel beat two players from Army, losing just four games total in the two matches. In the E Flight consolation, sophomore Julia Zak (Bernardsville, N.J.) bested Army's Jurelle Mendoza 6-1, 6-4 and senior tri-captain Catja Carrell (Benshelm, Germany), who yesterday downed Columbia's Linnae Goswami, won by default over Rutgers' Polina Zaretser.

In the A Flight doubles consolation, Zak and Zebroski won both of their matches, downing teams from Rutgers and Cornell. Adler and Scott won their lone back draw doubles match, beating Boston College's Katherine Attwell and Dasha Cherkasov 8-6. In B Flight doubles consolation, Carrell and Smyser won both of their matches, besting teams from Syracuse and Brown. Reichel and Markovitz won their lone back draw match by default.

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