Geocaris and Teague earn all-conference recognition from NEWMAC
Women's Tennis • Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
WORCESTER, MA- Sophomores Sarah Geocaris (Newport Beach, CA/Sage Hill School) and Catherine Teague (Manchester, NH/Central) earned all-league recognition from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) during Tuesday's postseason meeting at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Sarah Geocaris
Geocaris was voted to the second team at number-two singles for the second consecutive season, becoming the third Lyon to earn a pair of all-league singles honors, while joining Teague on the all-conference second squad at first doubles for the initial time. The tandem was selected NEWMAC Doubles Team of the Week on three occasions, and Geocaris enjoyed weekly singles honors once.
Geocaris had the most singles victories on the team, going 14-3, while finishing the fall at 11-2 in dual matches. She posted a perfect 6-0 mark in the second position and a 5-2 record at the top spot, the same mark she turned in during conference play. Geocaris started the season with seven straight wins before closing the fall with victories in seven of her final eight matches. Three of those triumphs came in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT) against New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foes.
Catherine Teague
In doubles action, Geocaris and Teague were nearly flawless through 13 dual matches, winning 12, including both NEWMAC Tournament contests. Going 15-4 overall, the duo posted a 6-1 conference record in just their second year playing together, yielding more than two games in only two regular season dual matches. Geocaris and Teague won eight straight matches to open the season while advancing to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Tournament quarterfinals in late September.
The tandem also won, 8-4 against Wellesley College, a program that lost a total of two doubles matches during the conference's regular season. The Lyons also downed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 8-6 at both the ITA Regional and NEWMAC tournaments, as one of the Engineers is half of a duo ranked 22nd nationally according to the ITA.
Geocaris and Teague helped the Lyons to one of the program's top fall seasons in school history, as Wheaton went 11-3 overall, including going 10-1 to start a season for the first time in program annals. The Blue and White recorded nine shutouts, notched the team's highest win total in a fall season since 1999, and finished third in the league standings at 5-2. Wheaton advanced to the conference tournament semifinal round for the second straight season.
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