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    Women's Tennis bounced from NCAA Tournament with 5-2 loss to Elizabethtown
    May 11, 2012

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    WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Endicott women’s tennis team battled to take two out of three possible points in doubles action over Elizabethtown (Pa.) in the NCAA Division III Tournament, but their opponents rallied to take the first four singles matches to go final as the Gulls ended their season with a 5-2 loss.

    With a 2-1 lead heading into singles play, Endicott appeared poised to make a run at their first tournament win in just their second appearance in program history.  Number one and number two singles players Kate Cioffi (Essex, Vt.) and Emilie Cloutier (Lewiston, Maine) took their first sets 6-0 and 6-2, respectively, but the first set for the three through six singles went to Elizabethtown. 

    As singles play progressed, Elizabethtown’s Kristi Noecker (Mohrsville, Pa.) handed Annis a 6-1, 6-3 defeat at the \#4 position to even the score at 2-2.   Moments later, Blue Jays junior Allison Burkhardt (Cherry Hill, N.J.) gave Gulls freshman Amy Heacox (Marion, Mass.) a straight-set loss and gave her team their first lead of the match at 3-2. 

    Endicott junior Gina Pinciaro (Beverly, Mass.) dropped her first set 6-3 to Sarah Poulle (Wilmington, Del.), but battled in the second set looking to force a third.  Poulle, however, fended off Pinciaro 6-4 to extend the Blue Jay lead 4-2. 

    Needing to win each of the final three singles matches remaining (1,2,5), attention turned to Endicott freshman Natalie Egbert (Gorham, Maine) who lost her first set, but fought back to tie her second set 6-6 with Christine Evangelista (Harrisburg, Pa.).  Evangelista, however, came out on top 7-6 to end the match 5-2.

    Cioffi’s match went unfinished at 6-0, 3-6, 3-0 and Cloutier’s did the same at 6-2, 1-6, 1-3. 

    Cioffi and Annis teamed up to take the first point of the match, an 8-6 win at \#1 doubles.  Egbert and Laura MacLeod (Stoneham, Mass.) lost 8-4 at the \#2 doubles matches but Cloutier and Heacox made a stunning comeback in \#3 doubles to give Endicott the early lead.  Trailing 7-6 and on the edge of losing, Cloutier and Heacox tied the match then claimed outright victory 9-7 over their Elizabethtown counterparts.