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America East Tournament Finals

Boston University 6, Delaware 0

April 22, 2000

Blue Hens Finish As Runner-Up For Seventh Straight Year


FLUSHING, NY -- Boston University proved once again to be the University of Delaware's nemesis in women's tennis as the Terriers downed the Blue Hens 6-0 to capture the America East conference team title at the United States Tennis Center Saturday afternoon.

Top seed Boston University, which captured its sixth straight America East title and earned an automatic berth into the upcoming NCAA Tournament, won all six singles matches in straight sets to earn the victory.

Head Coach Laura Travis
In the men's final, No. 1 seed Hofstra University won its second straight league title with a 4-3 win over No. 2 seed Towson University.

No. 2 seed Delaware (13-5), which has now finished second in each of the last seven America East championships, lost to the Terriers in the championship match for the second straight year. Boston University edged Delaware for the title the previous four seasons when the tournament was based on total points and not played under the current team format.

Boston University's Selin Nassi downed UD sophomore Elly Giese (National Cathedral/Washington, DC), 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1; Christina Causway downed junior Kristin Wasniewski (Archmere/West Chester, PA) 6-0, 6-1 at No. 2; Karina Shostakovsky downed senior Karen Greenstein (New Rochelle, NY HS) 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3; Carrie Rose downed senior Erin Kamen (Central Bucks East, Pa./Lake Forest, IL) 6-3, 6-0 at No. 4; Chrissy Cerratani downed freshman Jessica Wilkes (Nazareth/Bethlehem, PA) 6-2, 6-4 at No. 5; and Alana Marcu downed senior Tracy Guerin Ho-Ho-Kus/Midland Park, NJ) 6-3, 6-1 at No. 6.

Giese is now 8-10 in singles while Wasniewski fell to 11-6, Greenstein fell to 10-8, Kamen and Wilkes fell to 14-4, and Guerin fell to 3-2.

The team will conclude its season with home matches vs. Lafayette (Tuesday) and Bucknell (Wednesday) this week.

Kamen, who tied a UD record by playing her 85th career singles match, will enter Tuesday with a career singles record of 72-13, one win shy of the UD school record of 73 wins set by current UD head coach Laura Travis in 1985-89. Greenstein is 55-18 all-time in her career at doubles and with a win would tie the UD career doubles win record of 56 set by Rebecca Fearins in 1993-98.

AGATE:

Boston University def. Delaware, 6-0

Singles: Selin Nassi, BU, def. Elly Giese, 6-2, 6-1; Christina Causway, BU, def. Kristin Wasniewski, 6-0, 6-1; Karina Shostakovsky, BU, def. Karen Greenstein, 6-1, 6-1; Carrie Rose, BU, def. Erin Kamen, 6-3, 6-0; Chrissy Cerratani, BU, def. Jessica Wilkes, 6-2, 6-4; Alana Marcu, BU, def. Tracy Guerin, 6-3, 6-1; No Doubles

 

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