Denney and Hanson were both named CCC First Team Singles after going a combined 12-1 during their conference slate. Denney accounted for the lone loss in her final match of the season against CCC Player of the Year Hayley Barnett. Hanson has yet to lose a singles match this season, going 8-0 between the first and second flights. Denney dropped the first two matches of her young career, but had rattled off eight consecutive wins during Gordon's long winning streak until the match at Endicott.
With Barnett taking the Player of the Year award, Denney finished with the second best record at No.
1 singles and was named CCC Rookie of the Year.
Yeaw finishes off her final conference season in Wenham with perhaps her best year to date. The senior has yet to drop a match in either singles or doubles in head-to-head play. She is the only conference player to be undefeated at the No. 3 flight this season and is 10-0 combined between two and three singles. Despite her impressive record, Yeaw was only named to the second team this fall.
Denney and Yeaw teamed up to earn the best doubles record in Gordon history for a fall season. Gordon's top double lineup won all nine matches in which they played and went 6-0 in the CCC, which earned them the distinction of First Team Doubles. Yeaw also went 1-0 at second doubles with Lily Drescher during Gordon's senior day match.
A lineup shakeup in the middle of the season allowed Hanson and Jeffreys to get an appearance on the Second Team. The freshman-sophomore combo went 5-1 after joining forces and their only loss was attributed to first-team members Barnett and Margot Andreasen from Endicott. Jeffreys also went 8-2 in singles play and 5-1 in the conference.
After years of steady improvement Gordon's headman, Amadon, finally took home a conference Coach of the Year award. The long-time men's coach is in his fourth year at the helm of the women's program and earned his first playoff bye in either program. A 2004 Gordon graduate and a former all-CCC selection as a player, Amadon is being recognized by his peers for the first time as CCC Coach of the Year. Under Amadon's direction, the Fighting Scots enter the upcoming CCC Championship as the number two seed, sporting a 10-2 overall record and an impressive 7-1 mark in conference play. The Amadon-led Fighting Scots enter the upcoming conference tournament having registered double-digit wins for three straight years, following a stretch in which Gordon last reached the 10-win plateau in 2005.
Off the court, Yeaw added to Gordon's hardware for her work in the classroom as the CCC Senior Scholar Athlete. Combined with her near perfection on the court this season, Yeaw sports an equally impressive 3.78 grade-point average in elementary education and history. She is seeking dual licensure with elementary education and ESL. She has been a two-year captain and has consistently been named to a plethora of the general collegiate awards lists for academics and athletics in her three years at Gordon.
Gordon awaits their semifinal matchup depending on results of Tuesday's first round.
You can find the entire CCC release here.
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