Flushing, N.Y.- Fresh off a win over 18-time defending
America East champion BostonUniversity, fourth-seeded Stony
Brook edged No. 2 UMBC, 4-2, in the America East championship match
at the United
States National Tennis Center.
Stony Brook rallied to win three of four singles matches after
the Retrievers had captured the doubles point. The match was
decided at No. 2 singles, where UMBC sophomore Kim
Berghaus (Offenbach, Germany) took her opponent to a pair
of tie-breakers, but lost by the narrowest of margins, 7-6 (7-5),
7-6 (7-5).
Senior Carmen
Jackman (Silver Spring, Md./Blake) was involved in a
three-set match at the No. 3 position, and was even at 6-7 (5-7),
7-5, 2-2 when the match was decided.
Berghaus and Jackman got UMBC on the board with a tight victory
at No. 1 doubles, prevailing, 9-8. Graduate student Shalini
Sahoo (New Dehli, India) and sophomore Josefin
Stange-Jonsson (Vasteras, Sweden) opened doubles play
with an 8-5 win at the No. 2 position.
Junior Heidi
Danielsson (Jonkoping, Sweden) recorded the
Retrievers' lone singles victory, triumphing 6-4, 6-1 at the No. 5
position.
The Retrievers completed the 2012 campaign at 15-8. Jackman, the
lone senior, was 2-0 during her final competition.
