Brandeis Overcomes Racquetwomen in GBC; Wood and St. Goer Lose in Finals by 6-4, 6-1

Radcliffe's six best varsity tennis players braved 37-degree temperatures and high winds over the weekend in battling their way to a second-place finish in the Greater Boston Women's Intercollegiate Championships.

Radcliffe doubles teams reached the finals and the semifinals, and single entries survived until the semis and the quarters, for a combined total of 21 points. Brandeis won the tournament with 30.

Junior Maude Wood and freshman Jinny St. Goer turned in Radcliffe's strongest performance, losing only in the finals to Brandeis's Ronnie Yellen and Reed Hardenburgh, 6-4, 6-1. The same Brandeis pair knocked out Radcliffe's other doubles entry, sophomores Suki Magraw and Rita Funaro in the semis, 6-2, 6-2.

Boston College's Brenda Schafer, the number two seed and tournament champion, eliminated top Radcliffe singles player Lissa Muscatine in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 7-5. Brandeis's number one seed, Polly Hannes, eliminated Denise Thal in the semis, 7-5, 6-1.

A number of players looked at Saturday and Sunday's tournament in Cambridge as a warm-up for next week's New England Championships at Yale. "We weren't at our best in the GBC's," Muscatine said yesterday. "I think we're a better team than Brandeis. I'm sure the whole team is going to be very strong at New Haven."

Coach John McCarthy plans to shift Muscatine and Thal to first doubles next weekend, leaving Magraw and Funaro the top two singles spots. "Magraw's a tremendous competitor," McCarthy said yesterday. "I'm very confident with her at first singles."

McCarthy said that aside from Brandeis and Radcliffe, Princeton, Yale and Brown would challenge for next week's championship. "I think we're going to be tough," he said. "I think we can play better than we did over the weekend."

Boston College took third place in Saturday and Sunday's action with nine points. Rounding out the competition were Wellesley, Tufts, Simmons, MIT, Boston University, Emerson and Regis.

The Radcliffe team currently has a 13-game winning streak in dual matches.