Women's tennis makes strong showing at ITA Championships
September 23, 2007

Cecilia Grissa '08

Alex Piacquad '10

Mallika Raghavan '08
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Bates women's tennis team combined for five wins over the weekend at the Division III Women's New England Region Championships, administered by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and hosted by MIT.

Bates senior Cecilia Grissa (Doylestown, Pa.) advanced the furthest for the Bobcats. After dropping her initial Singles Championship Bracket match to Middlebury's Amy Berkman (7-5, 6-2), Grissa won two straight matches in the Consolation Bracket to make the quarterfinals. Grissa topped Wheaton's Catherine Teague (3-6, 6-4, 1-0[7]) and Smith College's Diana Fiumefreddo (6-2, 3-6, 1-0[3]) before bowing out to Wellesley's Meghan Stubblebine (7-5, 2-6, 6-3) in the quarterfinals.

Grissa also teamed up with sophomore Alexandra Piacquad (Yardley, Pa.) for a victory in the Doubles Championship Bracket, defeating Jen Murphy and Laura Stein of Amherst College 8-6.

Piacquad and senior Mallika Raghavan (Chappaqua, N.Y.) also competed for Bates in the Singles Championship. Piacquad lost her Championship Bracket match to seventh-seeded Amanda Berck of Middlebury, but went on to post a win in the Consolation Bracket, downing Ana Katz of Brandeis (2-6, 6-0, 1-0[5]).

Raghavan was defeated by Amherst's Monica Snyder in the Championship Bracket, but she also proceeded to win a match in the Consolation Bracket, over Aurora Lormeus of UMass-Boston (6-2, 6-2).

The Bobcats next compete at a dual match at Wesleyan University on Oct. 7.

Singles Championship Bracket

Doubles Championship Bracket

Singles Consolation Bracket