9/29 Practice

Today we held the seasonal Mixed Doubles competition as Coach Murphy and I scrambled the Men's and Women's rosters to create the tourney. Jonathan Roger, who won the inaugural tourney last February with since graduated Molly Fiala, teamed with Michelle Schupbach and successfully defended his Mixed title with a final round victory over Hannah Jensen and Scott Stegemann. Hannah was also the runner-up last February. Prateek Haralalka and Andrea Schupbach took 3rd place.

ITA Day III

Only one match remains! Michelle Schupbach will play in the consolation singles final against Amy Siemons of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Saturday, the Schupbach Sisters advanced to the doubles quarterfinals, losing to Doyle and Jueng of Carleton. Megan Fiala won the consolation singles of the Fall Invite with an 8-3 victory over Jenny Dallenbach of Wartburg College.
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ITA Day II

Well, Day I ended after 13 hours, 13 singles matches, lots of driving between indoor sites & finally, three well-played doubles matches.

Today, Day II, Hannah Jensen & Andrea Schupbach attempt to advance through to the semi-finals. They will each have defeat two very good foes.

AND, all three of the Kohawk's doubles pairs will try to get through THREE rounds of doubles.
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Results

A Schupbach def. Perwin 75 63
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Early results

Allen def Naidicz 64 63

Tiegs def Delagardelle 63 46 11-9

Jensen def Roop
62 63
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ITA Day I

Raining! Forecast calls for the 'wet stuff' to fall all day long. That will make for a long day playing on sixteen indoor courts instead of 34 outdoor courts.
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Women's ITA Draws

Well, the host school finally released the draws for the ITA Regional this weekend. A quick look tells me we got some good draws and some very difficult draws.

Hannah Jensen(#4 seed) vs Mary Roop(Gustavus #9)
Andrea Schupbach(#5-8 seed) vs Hannah Perwin(Beloit #1)
Hillary Allen vs Kristina Naidicz(Carthage #4)
Michelle Schupbach vs Sierra Krebsbach(Gustavus #1 & #3 overall seed)
Katy Delagardelle vs Rachel Tiegs( St Benedict's #1 & #5-8 overall seed)

Schupbach/Schupbach(#3 overall seed) vs Brufoldt/Frank(St Thomas #1)
Delagardelle/Allen vs Tiegs/Brandell(St Benedict's #1)
Jensen/Megan Fiala vs Ackland/Burroughs(St Catherine's #1)

I'll do my best to post results throughout the days of play. Could be a long day. Rain predicted!

9/23

Still warm here in Cedar Rapids, leaves falling on outdoor courts though! Got those cleaned up, & we had the guys out today & the ladies inside. Reason? 60% chance of rain in Minnesota on Friday. Thought I would let the ladies strike a rhythm for a couple of hours indoors!

We are waiting for the draws from the ITA Regional to arrive. I think Coe will have two top eight singles seeds & a top four doubles seed.

Can't wait to get up there and play against the best in the area!
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Tuesday 9/22

First day of Fall! We had two good practices. Falling leaves & early morning rain rendered a couple courts unplayable, so the guys went inside for singles with Coach Murph while I helped the ladies drill out on the outdoor courts. Ladies all hit well! Coach Murph said the singles work was coming along.

Women to ITA this weekend. Men the next weekend.
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