Alverno College Athletics - Home of the Inferno

MADISON, Wis. -- The Alverno College women's tennis team concluded their 2009 fall season with a 10th place finish at the 2009 Northern Athletics Conference Tennis Championship in Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison.

"I am really proud of the team as a whole how they came together and fought hard in every match up until the bitter end," Alverno head coach Erin Felber said.

The Inferno tied Lakeland College with 11 points for 10th place, while Edgewood College captured the NAC championship for the second straight season with 73 points. Rockford College finished last with six points for 12th place.

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- Play was suspended in the Alverno College women's tennis dual match at Mount Mary College this afternoon due to rain showers. The nonconference dual was halted after doubles matches were completed and singles competition had just gotten underway. The dual match will not be completed at a later date.

The match will not count in either teams' season records, but the three completed doubles matches will be included in the individual players' records.

The Inferno (1-9) came away with a victory in the No. 2 doubles match as senior Katie Craze (Fond du Lac, Wis./St. Mary's Springs) and sophomore Gabby Allen (Milwaukee, Wis./Bay View) defeated their opponents from Mount Mary, 8-6.

MILWAUKEE -- The Alverno College women's tennis team completed its home schedule for the 2009 season falling to the Sabres of Marian University 9-0 Tuesday evening in a Northern Athletics Conference dual at Jackson Park.

The visiting Sabres (12-5, 9-2 NAC) took all nine points from the Inferno for the sweep. The visitors won the three doubles matches 8-2, 8-1 and 8-1 before taking all six singles matches in two sets each.

MILWAUKEE -- The Alverno College women's tennis team dropped a pair of Northern Athletics Conference home dual matches to visiting Aurora University and Benedictine University today at McKinley Park.

The Inferno (1-8, 2-8 NAC) began the day with a 9-0 defeat at the hands of Aurora (10-4, 8-2).

Amanda Almquist (Greenfield, Wis.) lost a heartbreaker at No. 1 singles in three sets. Almquist lost the first set 6-3, before defeating her AU opponent 6-2 in the second set. She then fell 10-7 in the third set tiebreaker.