At Long Last: Netwomen Top Yale, 8-1

They've waited a long time for this. In fact, they've waited for all of the 20 or so years there's been Ivy League women's tennis.

Yesterday afternoon at Palmer Dixon, the Harvard women's tennis team trounced Yale, 8-1, for the first time in Ivy League history.

"Everybody was just smoking," said junior Captain Debbi Kaufman. "Everybody just had a great day."

The Crimson clinched the contest in singles play by racking up a 5-1 score on wins by Kaufman, first seed Elizabeth Evans, Kathy Vigna, Robin Boss and Erika Schulman.

Yardling Vigna pulled off a major upset over Eli Connie Yowell in the number three spot Yowell, last year's top Yale player, dropped the match in straight sets.

In doubles, the visitors and guaranteed losers defaulted the first match Vigna and Roberta Hing triumphed at number-two doubles and Smith and Kaufman took the number-three contest.