One final shake-up in the lineup brought around one final regular-season win for the women’s tennis team on Saturday afternoon at Albany.

Junior Jelena Koprivica ascended from third to second singles, knocking Zeynep Altinay to an unfamiliar No. 3 spot. The lineup change, head coach Mike Stevens said, was “just based on merit.”

“J.J. [Jelena] is playing very well,” the coach said. “She’s playing as well as she’s played since she’s been here. She’s worked very hard all season; I went ahead and made that switch, and she won fairly easily at No. 2.”

Stevens was insistent about the lineup change being merit-based due to America East rule 6.2.12.1, which states: “The line-up shall always be based on order of ability.”

In subsection (b), the rule continues, “If a top-six player clearly is stronger than the player immediately above him/her, then the player must be moved up a position.”

K.J. Cardinal, the America East Director of Communications, said that “there have been problems in the past” with teams “stacking” their lineups at Championships, but said that there haven’t been problems “over the past few years.”

But to dispel any notion of unfair play, a quick look at Koprivica’s career statistics certainly merited her return to the second singles position.

She went 10-4 in dual matches last year at second singles, and in the most important match of the year was on serve against Boston’s Gina Sabatino in the America East Championship when the match was ended. She has a 42-14 career record at Binghamton.

Meanwhile, Altinay, last year’s America East Player of the Year, ended up matched up with Albany’s Courtney Michels, whom she had beaten three times in straight sets in the past. Both Altinay and Stevens said that the individual matchup was an unintended consequence, and Altinay went on to win 6-1, 6-1.

The win gave Altinay 67 career wins, just two short of Lisa Denerstein’s BU record, set in 1992.

Two spots in the lineup are pretty much set in stone — Jenn Naegeli at No. 5 and Nicole Scarangella at No. 6 have been mainstays — but with this weekend’s America East tournament quickly approaching, BU’s final lineup is still to be determined.

Although a second-straight No. 2 seed for Binghamton is anticipated, the final draw for the tournament won’t be determined until a Wednesday afternoon conference call.