Women's Tennis

CMS Wins 2006 SCIAC Women's Tennis Championship
April 17, 2006

Courtesy La Verne Sports Information Office

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps closed out an unbeaten league season at the SCIAC Conference championships on Saturday defeating Pomona-Pitzer in the championship round.

The Athenas blanked the Sagehens 5-0 to win the tournament and capture the 2006 league title. CMS has either won or shared the conference championship each of the last 14 straight seasons! . CMS, which finished the conference regular season with a perfect 7-0 record, showed its dominance by not dropping a match in the entire tournament, going a combined 15-0 during the weekend against Whittier, Cal Lutheran and Pomona-Pitzer.

The third-seeded Sagehens reached the finals by topping second seed Redlands 5-3 in the semifinals. Redlands rebounded to defeat Cal Lutheran 5-1 in the third-place match. In other action, Occidental defeated tourney host La Verne 5-1 for fifth place while Caltech beat Whittier 5-2 in the seventh-place match.

SCIAC CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY TWO RESULTS
Championship #1 CMS defeated #3 Pomona-Pitzer, 5-0
Third Place #2 Redlands defeated #5 Cal Lutheran, 5-1
Fifth Place #4 Occidental defeated #6 La Verne, 5-1
Seventh Place #7 Caltech defeated #8 Whittier, 5-2

Second Round
Semifinals
#1 CMS defeated #5 Cal Lutheran, 5-0
#3 Pomona-Pitzer defeated #2 Redlands, 5-3 Consolation
#4 Occidental defeated #8 Whittier, 5-0
#6 La Verne defeated #7 Caltech, 5-3