October 18, 2013 (Women's Tennis)
    (With this year's fall semester sports sidelined by health concerns, let's take a look back at what was happening in Hilltopper sports on this date in history. Seven years ago today, the WLU women's tennis team had four All-MEC selections. The regionally-ranked Lady Hilltoppers advanced to the MEC Tournament championship match and went on to earn their fourth straight NCAA Tournament bid!)
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Four members of the West Liberty University women's tennis team earned All-Mountain East Conference on Friday when the MEC coaches announced the results of their All-Conference balloting.
    Raissa Wischi and Lauren Howard were first-team selections while Raquel Cabero and Emily Dawson collected second-team honors on the All-MEC honor roll, which was announced on the opening day of the league's inaugural championship tournament.
    Howard, a junior from Lee-on-Solent, England, was a repeat first-team honoree after being named West Virginia Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore. She led Coach Heather Gallagher's Hilltoppers to a runner-up finish in the regular-season standings with another strong performance at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles.
    Wischi, a senior from Sao Paolo, Brazil, is now a four-time All-Conference selection, having been an All-WVIAC pick in each of her first three seasons. Wischi lost only one match all year at No. 2 singles and teamed with Howard to give West Liberty a formidable duo at No. 1 doubles.
    Cabero, a freshman from Madrid, Spain, and Dawson, a sophomore from East Liverpool, Ohio who played her high school tennis at Beaver Local, also put together strong conference campaigns.
    Cabero lost only one MEC match at No. 3 singles and teamed with Alex Barr at No. 2 doubles. Dawson also had only one MEC loss at No. 4 singles and was paired with Andrea Puga at No. 3 doubles.
    The No. 2 seed in this weekend's MEC Tournament field, the West Liberty women were scheduled to take on No. 7 seed Concord in a quarterfinal match on Friday at the Schoenbaum Tennis Complex. Semifinal matches are set for Saturday with the inaugural MEC champion to be crowned on Sunday.
       Cora Berna, W.Va. State
     Brittany Franco, W.Va. State
     LAUREN HOWARD, WEST LIBERTY
     Katelyn Mumaw, Shepherd
     Ana Pena, Charleston
     Paula Pimenta, W.Va. Wesleyan
     Andreea Slusarciuc, W.Va. State
     RAISSA WISCHI, WEST LIBERTY      RAQUEL CABERO, WEST LIBERTY
     Diana Cotoros, W.Va. State
     EMILY DAWSON, WEST LIBERTY
     Marieve Edwards, Charleston
     Kelsey Hensley, Charleston
     Taylor Nichols, Fairmont State
     Julia Ochoa, W.Va. Wesleyan
     Haley Thacker, UVa-Wise      John Simms, W.Va. State      Paula Pimenta, W.Va. Wesleyan      Paula Pimenta, W.Va. Wesleyan