Terps Ready for Showdown with No. 10 William & Mary
6/21/1999 8:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
February 15, 1999
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The womens tennis team won five of its six singles matches and all three of its doubles matches and defeated Syracuse, 8-1, on Feb. 14 to improve to a perfect 3-0. This marks the Terps second win in as many days and their third consecutive dual meet victory of the 1999 season. The Terps also topped Minnesota on Feb. 13 by a score of 6-3.
Senior Meg Griffin (Topeka, Kan.), sophomore Chrissie Terrill (Plano, Tex.) and freshman Courtney Perkins (Seattle, Wash.) are each undefeated on the season with three wins. Juniors Lorraine Bittles (Nashville, Tenn.) and Stacy Walkowitz (Coral Springs, Fla.) dropped singles matches to Minnesota, but recovered the following day against host Syracuse.
The three Terrapin doubles teams, Griffin-Bittles, Walkowitz-Terrill and Perkins-Adrienne Pavelko (Vienna, Va.), still remain undefeated at 9-0, but William & Mary will provide quite a challenge with their No. 8 and No. 44 nationally ranked teams.
TERPS KNOCK OFF GEORGETOWN IN SEASON OPENER
The womens tennis team opened its 1999 dual season with an explosion on Feb. 7, defeating the Georgetown Hoyas, 9-0, in Potomac, Md. Senior Meg Griffin (Topeka, Kan.) and juniors Lorraine Bittles (Nashville, Tenn.) and Stacy Walkowitz (Coral Springs, Fla.) were victorious for the Terps in the top three spots on the ladder respectively. Griffin and Bittles also came out on top in doubles, 8-0. Walkowitz, sophomore Chrissie Terrill (Plano, Tex.), senior Adrienne Pavelko (Vienna, Va.) and freshman Courtney Perkins (Seattle, Wash.) were each winners in both singles and doubles matches on the afternoon. Overall, Maryland won the singles matches by a combined score of 72-9 and doubles 24-2.
MARYLAND COACH JIM LAITTA
In his ninth season, Jim Laitta has taken what once was an underfunded program onto the national tennis scene. He has led the Terps to the schools first two NCAA appearances as well as finishes in the top half of the conference for the past few years. In 1996, he was named both ACC and NCAA Region I coach of the year by his peers. Before Maryland, he was the head womens coach at Mississippi State University. While there, the program finished in the national Top 20 and captured an NCAA doubles championship. Laitta played collegiately at Eastern Kentucky University where he was team captain and played No. 1 singles and doubles.
1998-99 MARYLAND RECORDS
Name Fall Spring No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Overall
M. Griffin/L. Bittles 7-6 3-0 10-6
S. Walkowitz/C. Terrill 4-5 3-0 7-5
A. Pavelko/K. Curic 2-2 2-2
A. Pavelko/C. Perkins 3-0 1-0
Team #5 (TBA)
ALL MATCHES ACC MATCHES
Name Fall Spr. No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Overall
M. Griffin 8-7 3-0 10-7
L. Bittles 7-8 2-1 8-9
S. Walkowitz 5-4 2-1 6-5
C. Terrill 7-6 3-0 9-6
T. Ivanisevic 0-0 0-0
A. Pavelko 4-7 1-2 4-9
C. Perkins 4-4 3-0 6-4
K. Curic 3-4 3-4
Preseason ITA Doubles Rankings 1. Goldstein/Webb, Duke T2. Augustus/Jensen, Calif. T2. Castellano/Catlin, Georgia 4. Chapman/Muzamel, Miss. 5. Nedelkova/Ondrisova, VCU 6. Brown/Emami, Kentucky 7. Fernandez/Penalvo, Marq. 8. Hart/Lund, Michigan 9. Bittles/Griffin, Maryland 10. Nickitas/Lehnoff, Florida
