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Clark Smith Tennis was off to a decisive start this past Saturday with a 9-0 victory over Clark University. On a very sunny hot Sept 7, Smith Tennis traveled to Worcester to take on Clark. Both teams opened their seasons with the NEWMAC conference match that lasted three hours.. Smith dominated the match from the start winning all three doubles and the six singles and dropping only a total of 8games in all the singles competition. Three first years students, Ruth Linz, Joanna Wong and Cami Whitney, started for the Pioneers. Lauren Kemp and Ruth Linz paired up to play number 1 doubles. The formidable tall red heads kept their cool and won 8-4 in all out offensive style. Co-captains Ashley Kilgore and Liz Laudeman played second doubles mixing up the offensive and defensive play bringing in an 8-3 win Joanna Wong and Cami Whitney fielded the number 3 doubles winning 8-5. Their consistent style wore down their opponents. Lauren Kemp led Smith in the singles line-up playing number one. Lauren dominated her opponent 6-0, 6-0 with big serves and strong ground strokes. Ashley Kilgore, Liz Laudeman, Ruth Linz, Joanna Wong and Mariel Elguero won each of their respective matches in straight sets at 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 singles position. Smith is 1-0 in competition and will host Tufts on Tuesday, Sept 10 at 4:30pm |