Women’s Tennis Wraps Up Fall Season with 7-2 Loss at Bridgewater State
BRIDGEWATER, Mass.- The Eastern Nazarene College women's tennis team finished off its fall slate with a 7-2 setback at Bridgewater State Thursday afternoon.
The Lions fall to 4-11 overall while the Bears improve to 8-5 on the year.
The visitors managed one victory in doubles play as the home team established a 2-1 lead.
Eastern Nazarene's All-Commonwealth Coast Conference doubles tandem of Adele Duval (Redding, Calif.) and Lindsey Steelman (Darlington, Md.) edged Bridgewater State's Bojana Roman and Alison Scagnelli 7-5 in a tiebreaker to claim a 9-8 win at the No. 1 position.
Jordan Cressman (Bowmanstown, Pa.) and Veronica Jimenez (Lynn, Mass.) endured an 8-4 loss at the second spot to Rachel Tarantino and Angelique Gray.
Hannah Lariviere (Biddeford, Maine) and Julie Sutton (Middletown, Conn.) dropped an 8-1 decision to Amanda Strickland and Ilektra Koutsogiannopoulos at the third slot.
The Bears tallied five singles victories to clinch the match.
Duval outlasted Alisha Silva in a third-set super-tiebreaker at the top singles spot. Duval conceded the opening frame 6-4 before bouncing back to level the match at one-set-all with a 6-4 win in the second. The sophomore topped Silva 10-7 in the super-tiebreaker to collect her team-leading seventh singles victory of the season.
Steelman suffered a 6-0, 6-1 setback to Roman at the No. 2 position. Cressman fell to Scagnelli at the third singles slot 6-0, 6-2.
Jimenez dropped a 6-1, 6-1 decision in the No. 4 singles match against Strickland.
Sutton absorbed a 6-4, 6-2 loss at the fifth position to Tarantino. Joanna Mohnkern (Petersburg, Pa.) fell in straight sets at the sixth spot to Gray, 6-0, 6-1.
Looking ahead, Eastern Nazarene will return to action in March as it takes its annual spring break to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.