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                                        Women's College Tennis
           Southern Maine Downs UMass Dartmouth, 5-4
                   Courtesy Southern Maine Sports Information

        GORHAM, Maine  --  Senior captain Katie Welch (Calais, Maine) earned a pair of victories to help the University of Southern Maine Huskies post a 5-4 victory over the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Corsairs in a Little East Conference played Monday afternoon in the USM Field House.
        The win stopped a six-match losing skid for the Huskies who improved to 2-7 overall and 2-4 in the conference.  UMass Dartmouth dropped to 5-6 overall and 2-4 in the conference.
       Welch opened the day by combining with junior Emily Green (Cumberland, Maine/Catherine McAuley) for an 8-3 win at number one doubles.  Welch return to defeat freshman Noelle Judd (Burlington, Mass.) in straight sets at number one singles.
       Other USM winners, all in singles matches, were juniors Chelsea and Casea Parady (Portland, Maine) and senior Emily Straubel (Littleton, Maine/Houlton HS).  The Huskies won four of the six singles matches to come from behind for the victory.
       The Corsairs won two of the three doubles matches behind the combinations of senior Sarah Charwick (Palmer, Mass.) and junior Katie Haepers (Wilmington, Mass.) at number two, and sophomore Nicole Cross (Dunstable, Mass.) and freshman Allison DeAngelis (Milford, Mass.) at number three.
       Charwick and DeAngelis also added singles wins for UMD.
       Southern Maine is off until the Little East Conference tournament that begins Friday in Danbury, Conn., hosted Western Connecticut State University.  UMass Dartmouth is scheduled to play at home against Pine Manor College tomorrow.

Singles
#1   Katie Welch (SM) def. Noelle Judd (UMD), 6-0, 6-2
#2   Sarah Charwick (UMD) def. Emily Green (SM), 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
#3  Chelsea Parady (SM) def. Becky Bullock (UMD), 7-5, 6-4
#4  Casea Parady (SM) def. Katie Haepers (UMD), 7-5, 6-1
#5  Emily Straubel (SM) def. Nicole Cross (UMD), 6-3, 6-2
#6 Allison DeAngelis (UMD) def. Elyse Campione (SM), 6-4, 6-4

Doubles
#1  Welch & Green (SM) def. Judd & Bullock (UMD), 8-3
#2   Charwick & Haepers (UMD) def. Parady & Parady (SM), 8-3
#3   Cross & DeAngelis (UMD) def. Straubel & Campione (SM), 8-6

UMASS DARTMOUTH TENNIS