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Princeton Pair Falls Just Short in NCAA Doubles Rd. of 16
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Courtesy of Princeton Athletic CommunicationsATHENS, Ga. -- The Princeton pair of Taylor Marable and Hilary Bartlett started fast in their upset bid against Andrea Remynse and Yasmin Schnack of UCLA, but the Bruin pair held on for a three-set win in Friday's round of 16 in the doubles tournament at the 2010 NCAA Division Women???s Tennis Championships at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
Remynse and Schnack, ranked No. 4 in the nation by the ITA and the fourth overall seed in the NCAA bracket, won 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the national quarterfinals.
It would have been the second straight upset for Marable and Bartlett, ranked No. 27 in the nation, after the Tiger twosome outlasted 16th-ranked Melissa Koning and Irene Rehberger from South Florida in three sets in Thursday's first round.
Marable and Bartlett won the first three games of the opening set and held on to win, but UCLA's team ran up a 5-2 lead in the second set. Though the Princeton duo pulled within 5-4 in the middle frame, Remynse and Schnack were able to close it out and force and ultimately win a deciding third set.
The loss closes a Princeton tennis season that saw the Tigers win their second straight Ivy League title as a team at 20-6, advance to the NCAA tournament in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history, and get an individual victory from Bartlett and Marable a year after the same pair made the first appearance since 2002 for a Tiger in the NCAA singles or doubles tournament.
