The Boston University women’s tennis team ended the fall season on a high note with a full sweep at the first annual Dartmouth Invitational this past weekend at Dartmouth College’s Boss Tennis Center.
The invitational was the idea of current Dartmouth Coach Bob Dallis, who was a former tennis standout and men’s tennis coach at BU. Four schools, including BU, Dartmouth College, Harvard University and Colgate College competed in the tournament.
BU won all three brackets Sunday, led by Junior Lindsey Dynof’s Flight A singles victory and her victory over Jayme Ahmed of Dartmouth, 7-5, 6-1, in the finals on Sunday morning. Dynof was the top seed in Flight A, and, according to BU Coach Lesley Sheehan, ‘dominated’ the tournament.
Freshman Aimee Charest took home the Flight B singles title in three sets after beating Dartmouth’s Ann Scott, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Charest won the match after not faring well in the Brown Invitational earlier in the season.
‘For [Charest] to come into town and win was great for her confidence,’ Sheehan said.
Rounding out the sweep for BU was freshman Monika Shepherd and Dynof, who won the doubles bracket, 8-4. The resilient duo made it to the finals after a come-from-behind victory in the semifinals against Colgate. Down 5-0, Shepherd and Dynof came back to knot the set at five. The doubles team escaped another close call after being down, love-40, in the tiebreaker before winning, 9-7.
Sheehan praised the play of the Terriers in their last action of the fall season, especially the doubles play of Shepherd and Dynof.
‘We had a good, dominating weekend, and to win doubles was great,’ Sheehan said.
BU dominated the invitational despite entering the weekend shorthanded, with only five players competing in the tournament. Two Terriers sat out the competition with shoulder injuries while a third missed the tournament due to sickness.
The fall season, which focuses more on individual matches, ended on a positive note at the Dartmouth Invitational. With a campaign that included a 7-0 win over the University of New Hampshire to start the season and a 6-0 victory against the University of Connecticut at the ECAC Tournament, the Terriers had an overall successful fall season.
‘We had a good fall season,’ Sheehan said. ‘But we still have a lot to work on for the spring.’
The spring season beings Jan. 25 at the Harvard Invitational, and Sheehan has a positive outlook.
‘We have a young team,’ Sheehan said, ‘But they are catching on quick and are fast learners.’
This is an account occasionally used by the Daily Free Press editors to post archived posts from previous iterations of the site or otherwise for special circumstance publications. See authorship info on the byline at the top of the page.
