HERSHEY, Pa.  – The Lebanon Valley College women’s tennis team dropped a 7-1 Commonwealth Conference decision to Messiah College in both teams’ regular season conference finale on Monday at the Hershey Racquet Club.

With the loss, Lebanon Valley (6-3, 3-3 CC) finishes fourth in the Commonwealth standings and will return to the conference playoffs for the second year in a row. LVC will visit Moravian College (13-1, 5-1 CC), which finished first in the conference, on Wednesday in the Commonwealth semifinals. Lebanon Valley handed Moravian its only loss of the season with a 5-4 win back on Sept. 13.

Messiah (8-2, 4-2 CC), the third-place finisher in the Commonwealth, will visit Elizabethtown (8-2, 5-1 CC) in the other semifinal match on Wednesday.

The match began with singles matches being played first, and Messiah jumped out to a 5-1 lead. Sophomore Leslie Sabas won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to give LVC its lone point.

Only two of three doubles matches were completed.

Singles
1. Leslie Sabas (LV) def. Christine Kalb, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
2. Meredith Rempala (M) def. Kelly Moll, 6-2, 6-3
3. Katie Kalb (M) def. Jenny Larson, 6-3, 6-4
4. Sandra Sumner (M) def. Amanda Lubold, 6-4, 6-0
5. Rebecca Grant (M) def. Charissa Nordall, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1
6. Meredith Spegel (M) def. Angela Esh, 6-2, 6-2

Doubles
1. match not completed
2. Grant/Rempala (M) def. Larson/Jan White, 8-5
3. Sumner/Spegel (M) def. Moll/Angie Petiak, 8-4

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