Tribe Continues to Win at National Indoors

Megan Moulton-Levy and Katarina Zoricic advanced at the National Indoor Championships.

11/03/06 8:00PM

Columbus, Ohio - The William and Mary women’s tennis team continued to roll at the ITA National Indoor Championships as senior Megan Moulton-Levy advanced to the semifinals in singles and the Tribe tandem of Moulton-Levy and sophomore Katarina Zoricic moved into the semifinal round in doubles. The ITA National Indoor Championships are hosted by Ohio State at the Racquet Club of Columbus.

Moulton-Levy, ranked No. 10 in the ITA preseason singles rankings, avenged one of her two fall singles losses with a three-set victory over No. 27-ranked Jenna Long of North Carolina to earn a spot in the semifinals. Moulton-Levy took the first set, 6-2, but Long rallied to force a third set with a 6-1 win in the second. Trailing, 3-1, in the decisive set, Moulton-Levy won five of the final six games to take the match, 6-4. Long had defeated Moulton-Levy, 6-5, 7-5, in the finals of Flight A at the season-opening William and Mary Invitational on Sept. 17.

The win bumped the Monroe, Mich., native’s season mark to 11-2. It also was her eighth win over a ranked foe this season. Moul-ton-Levy had advanced to the quarterfinals with a straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, win over Elze Potgieter of Texas A&M in the round of 16.

Moulton-Levy, the No. 8 seed, will meet then No. 6 seed Jelena Pandzic of Fresno-Pacific (NAIA) in the semifinals on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Pandzic, the ITA National Small College Champion, defeated No. 3 seed and No. 2 nationally ranked Kristi Miller of Georgia Tech, 6-0, 6-3, in the quarterfinals. The other semifinal will pit the No. 4 seed Melanie Gloria of Fresno State against the No. 2 seed Audra Cohen of Miami (Fla.). Gloria was ranked No. 19 in the ITA preseason singles rankings, while Cohen was ranked No. 1 during the preseason.

Zoricic and Moulton-Levy are the lone seeded team remaining in the main doubles draw. The No. 4 seed and No. 22 nationally ranked team defeated the Stanford duo of Celia Durkin and Jessica Nguyen, 8-2, to earn a spot in the semifinals. Celia and Nguyen were not ranked as a team in the preseason ITA rankings, but were ranked on separate teams. Celia was part of the 26th-ranked team, while Nguyen comprised part of the 44th-ranked team. The W&M duo improved to 16-1 on the year.

The No. 1 ranked and seeded team of Sara Anundsen and Long from North Carolina fell in the quarterfinals, leaving the Tribe tandem as the lone seeded pair remaining. Zoricic and Moulton-Levy will meet the No. 27 nationally ranked Norte Dame pair of Brook Buck and Kelcy Tefft on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 10 a.m. The duo defeated Lauren Macfarlane and Nicola Slater of Florida State, 8-6, in the quarterfinals.

W&M Results from the ITA National Indoor Championships
Singles Main Draw – Second Round
(First Number is seed in tournament/Number in bracket is national ranking)
#8 Megan Moulton-Levy (W&M) [10] def. Elze Potgieter (Texas A&M) – 6-3, 6-1

Singles Main Draw – Quarterfinals
(First Number is seed in tournament/Number in bracket is national ranking)
#8 Megan Moulton-Levy (W&M) [10] def. Jenna Long (North Carolina) [27] – 6-2, 1-6, 6-4

Doubles Main Draw – Quarterfinals
(First Number is seed in tournament/Number in bracket is national ranking)
#4 Moulton-Levy/Zoricic (W&M) [22] def. Durkin/Nguyen (Stanford) – 8-2