Chiricosta Captures Crown at BGSU Invitational

Saturday, September 21

Bowling Green, OH

9:00 AM

Bowling Green State University

BGSU Invitational

September 21, 2013 | Women's Tennis

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

Nikki Chiricosta and Drew Fillis - Sept 21 2013

Senior Nikki Chiricosta won the championship at the top singles flight, as the Bowling Green State University completed play at the Falcons' own BGSU Invitational Saturday (Sept. 21). The final day's action in the two-day, six-team tournament was held at Keefe Courts on the BGSU campus, with some matches held at Bowling Green High School.

BGSU INVITATIONAL RESULTS - PDF
SATURDAY PHOTO GALLERY

No team scores were kept at the event, which included Cincinnati, Detroit, Duquesne, IPFW and Toledo, in addition to the Falcons. But, flight champions were crowned at each of the five singles and three doubles flights.

After defeating opponents from UDM and Toledo on Friday, Chiricosta downed UC's Ashleigh Witte by identical 6-1 scores in Saturday's championship match. The BG senior swept all six singles sets in the tournament, losing a total of just 10 games in those six sets.

BGSU INDIVIDUAL W-L RECORDS
Player	Singles	Doubles	Total
Katie Brozovich	2-1	1-2	3-3
Nikki Chiricosta	3-0	2-1	5-1
Hannah Drayton	2-1	1-2	3-3
Drew Fillis	2-1	2-1	4-2
Harley Hutchison	2-1	2-1	4-2
Brittany Plaszewski	1-2	0-1*	1-3
Emily Reuland	2-1	2-1	4-2
* competed with an IPFW player

Two other Falcons advanced to the championship match in their respective singles flights before succumbing. Sophomore Katie Brozovich lost a three-set match to UC's Kelly Poggensee-Wei in the title match at the second flight on Saturday, and freshman Harley Hutchison also lost to a Bearcat opponent, Lauren Bellinger, in the fourth-flight final.

As a team, the Falcons went 5-2 in singles matches on Saturday, with the only two losses coming in championship matches. BGSU had an overall singles record of 14-7 on the weekend. Chiricosta went 3-0 en route to her title, while four of the five other team members -- Brozovich, Hutchison, senior Emily Reuland, sophomore Drew Fillis and freshman Hannah Drayton -- had a 2-1 singles mark on the weekend.

Reuland captured two consolation matches in the second singles flight after losing her first match in three sets on Friday. She topped UC's Caitlin O'Gara in the back-draw final on Saturday.

BGSU CAREER LISTS
	SINGLES	Wins
1	Christine Chiricosta	89
2	Stefanie Menoff	81
3	NIKKI CHIRICOSTA	80
...
14	EMILY REULAND	70



	DOUBLES	Wins
1	Maddy Eccleston	97
...
4	3 including NIKKI CHIRICOSTA	74
...
16	2 including EMILY REULAND	68



	OVERALL	Wins
1	Christine Chiricosta	178
2	Maddy Eccleston	169
3	NIKKI CHIRICOSTA	154
...
13	EMILY REULAND	138

At the third flight, Fillis defeated Duquesne's Zuzanna Stelmaszak in a tiebreaker to capture the third-place match. The BG sophomore lost her first set by a narrow 7-5 count, then bounced back for a 6-3 win in the second set before taking the 'breaker.

Freshman Brittany Plaszewski went to a tiebreaker in the opening set of her third-place match vs. UDM's Elena Strakhova at the fifth flight on Saturday. Strakhova was able to pull out the win in that tiebreaker and went on to capture the second set as well.

In doubles, the Falcons went 3-3 on Saturday and 5-4 on the weekend. The top flight saw Chiricosta and Fillis win two matches in the back draw on Saturday after dropping their Friday opener. On Saturday, that duo beat two IPFW tandems, including an 8-3 win over the Mastodons' Mayu Sato and Miloslava Shustova in the consolation final.

Overall, Chiricosta and Fillis each had perfect 3-0 records on Saturday.

The second doubles flight saw Reuland and Hutchison defeat a UDM duo by an 8-5 score in the semifinal round, before losing to UC's Bellinger and Poggensee-Wei in the championship. Brozovich and Drayton competed in that same flight, and lost to that same UC duo in the semifinals before falling by a narrow 8-6 score to a UDM team in the third-place match.

Seniors Chiricosta and Reuland certainly enjoyed their fair shares of success at the BGSU Invitational over the years. Reuland went 22-2 overall in the invite, with identical records of 11-1 in both singles and doubles.

Chiricosta was 21-3 in the BGSU Invitational in her four seasons, including a team-best 5-1 overall record in the 2013 event.

Chiricosta and Reuland each continued to climb the BGSU career charts. Chiricosta moved up several notches on all three lists this weekend. She now ranks third in school history in both singles and overall wins, and is tied for fourth in doubles victories.

Reuland is 14th in singles victories, and has moved into a tie for 16th in doubles wins. She has matched former BGSU standout and current volunteer assistant coach Cindy (Mikolajewski) Yonker on the doubles chart. Reuland is 13th in combined career wins at BG (see lists on this page).

The Falcons return to action next weekend, heading to Oxford for the Miami Invitational on Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 28-29).