Women’s tennis tunes up with win

Powell Named to All-CC Team For the second year in a row, senior Jenn Powell of the Muhlenberg women’s tennis team was selected to the All-Centennial Conference team. Powell has an 8-6 record at No. 1 singles, including a 6-4 mark in CC play. She is the 16th-ranked singles player in the Atlantic South Region. For her career, Powell’s overall combined record is 83-53. She played at No. 1 singles for the last three years after competing at No. 4 as a freshman. Click here for the complete team.

The Muhlenberg women’s tennis team tuned up for this weekend’s Centennial Conference playoffs with an impressive 7-2 comeback win against Elizabethtown.

For the first time since 2004, the Mules (10-4) swept the singles matches after losing two of three doubles matches. Against the Blue Jays (10-5), all six of their singles wins were in straight sets.

Sophomores Caitie Druker and Sara Sutker paired up for the lone doubles win. Sutker went on to take her No. 4 singles match, 6-0, 6-0, extending her winning streak to 10. She has lost only eight games in her last nine singles sets.

Senior Carly Rotfeld also extended her winning streak to 10 with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 3 singles against an opponent who came in with a 7-0 record. It was Rotfeld’s 90th career win. She has not played a set closer than 6-3 during the streak.

The bottom four players in the Muhlenberg singles lineup all won for the third match in a row.
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