W&L Women's Tennis Duo Advances to NCAA Quarterfinals
Katie TabbLAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The Washington and Lee women’s tennis tandem of senior Katie Tabb (Minneapolis, Minn./Edina) and junior Lauren Caire (Nashville, Tenn./Harpeth Hall) advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division III Individual Championships with a straight-set victory on Friday afternoon at the Collins Athletic Club.
Tabb and Caire defeated Brittany Berckes and Natasha Brown of Amherst, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the second day of play where they will face Kristin Cobb and Marta Drane of Denison. This is the second-straight year that Tabb and Caire have made an appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals.
Tabb was also won of two W&L players taking part in the individual portion of the event along with first-year Ellen Yeatman (Little Rock, Ark./Little Rock Central). Tabb won her first match, 6-0, 6-1, over Berckes before falling, 6-3, 0-6, 0-6 to Amanda Wu of Carnegie Mellon in the second round. Yeatman dropped her first round match, 3-6, 2-6, to Ploy Suhijindawong of St. Scholastica.
The quarterfinals for the doubles are slated to begin on Saturday at 3:00 pm.
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