NWW3.5 Champions-Midtown-Palatine

The season started with College Park in 1st place after the 1st match and Midtown-Palatine in 3rd place. As the season went on there came to be a 3-way tie between CPAC-East, GRC and MTP. As it happened, on that date, CPAC-East and MTP played against each other and MTP won that matchup 7.5-4.5 which gave them the points needed for the tie. Fast forward to the end of the season – College Park East was in 1st place and Midtown-Palatine in 2nd place except this time they were playing for the trophy. Last year Midtown-Palatine wrested the #1 spot from North Shore. And this year they did the same against College Park East winning 8.5-3.5. On court 1 CPAC’s Nikki Krakowski/Tiffany Simanek bested MTP’s Davida Kozlowski/Beth Zawilenski 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. On court 2, MTP’s Erica Donofrio/Allyn Selesky squeaked out a 1st set tie-breaker win over CPAC’s Stephanie Cohen/Heather Curtis then burst out with a 6-2, 1-0 win. On court 3 MTP’s Bev Vacval/Sally Fessenden won against CPAC’s Karen Borgerding/Susan Chaplik 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 and on court 4 MTP’s Elizabeth Jiminez/Alicia Tisbo won gainst CPAC’s Angelee Boyd, Anne Douglas.