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Bison Head Coach Rebecca Helt Earns 100th Career Victory
April 15, 2006
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Head coach Rebecca Helt earned her 100th career victory with Bucknell women's tennis today with a 6-1 win over Patriot League foe Colgate on the Bucknell tennis courts in Lewisburg, Pa. The win hands the Bison (7-10, 3-2 PL) a guaranteed spot in the Patriot League Tournament. Helt, in her nine seasons of coaching the women, now has a compiled career win-loss record of 100-79. Everyone turned in strong matches in both doubles and singles action, as the Bison won the doubles point and five of the six singles points. In No. 2 doubles, the pair of senior Chelsea Mills (Wellesley, Mass./Wellesley) and sophomore Caitlin Baffa (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills East) fought hard and pulled through with a victory in a very close, 9-7 battle over Erin Fenn and Lauren Levy. In the No. 3 spot, freshmen Ashley Globerman (New City, N.Y./Clarkstown) and JoAnna Grossman (Florham Park, N.J./Hanover Park) delivered an 8-1 slaughtering to help earn the doubles point over Cameron Thaney and Kate Serrurier. The No. 1 pair of senior Veronica Brown (Derwood, Md./Col. Zadok Magruder) and freshman Paulina Gamboa (Mexico City, Mexico/Greengates) played a strong match, but fell on the short end of an 8-5 mark. In singles action, Mills brought in a victory in the No. 2 spot over Alex Seaton, 6-2, 6-4, while Gamboa dominated over Fenn 6-0, 6-0 in the No. 3 position. Globerman continued to play well in the No. 4 slot for the Orange and Blue and captured her seventh victory of the season in a 6-3, 6-0 defeat of Thaney.
Baffa stepped in for Bucknell in the No. 5, where she took control of the match and won in two sets, 6-1, 6-1. Freshman Tiffany Card (Little Silver, N.Y./Red Bank Regional) battled in the No. 6 spot and took an easy 6-2 first game away from Serrurier, and then snatched a 7-5 win in the second set. Brown played a very tough match in the No. 1 spot, falling in the first set, 7-5, then coming back and overpowering in the second set, 6-0, but eventually fell in the third set, 10-4, to Jackie Couture. Bucknell could possibly finish in a three-way tie for second place with Lehigh and Colgate in the Patriot League standings, but today's commanding 6-1 victory does give the Bison an advantage, should the tournament seeding need to come down to points scored in a match. The Orange and Blue are next scheduled to battle Bloomsburg, in Bloomsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m. |
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