Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College women's tennis team closed out its home schedule for the Fall season with an 8-1 victory over Saint Michael's College in Northeast-10 Conference action on Sunday afternoon at the Skytop Tennis Courts.
The Dolphins won two of the three matches in the doubles competition to take a 2-1 lead in the match. At the spot, sophomore
Tiffany Dun (Templestowe, Victoria/Doncaster Secondary College) and junior
Amica Benoit-Limosani (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec/Collège Saint-Maurice) won their fourth straight match with an 8-5 win over Nicole Kellogg and Abby Ramsay. Junior
Rithika Vajjiravelu (Chennai, Tamil Nadu/Kendriya Vidyalaya) and senior
Christina Perry (Endwell, N.Y./Seton Catholic) also earned their fourth consecutive win by defeating Amelia Weeks and Caroline Sumner at the second position, 8-2. Saint Michael's picked up its lone point at the third spot as Colleen O'Keefe and Riley Kruger edged junior
Autumn Hogan (Rochester, N.Y./Aquinas Institute) and freshman
Cameron Aiello (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill), 9-7.
In singles action, the Dolphins were victorious in each of the six matches. At the top position, Dun posted a 6-3, 6-0 win against Kellogg to register her third straight win. Vajjiravelu tallied her fourth straight victory with a 6-2, 6-1 win against Ramsay at the second spot, while Benoit-Limosani picked up her fourth consecutive win with a 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) victory over O'Keefe at the third position. Perry won for the third straight time with back-to-back 7-5 scores against Weeks at the fourth spot. Hogan improved to 4-0 in conference action with a 6-1, 6-4 victory at the fifth spot against Kruger. Aiello earned her first home victory with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Sumner at the sixth position.
Le Moyne (6-8, 5-6 NE-10), which has won four consecutive matches for the first time since the Spring 2013 season, closes out the regular season on Wednesday at Bentley University at 1:00 p.m. The Dolphins need to defeat the Falcons and get some help from other teams in the conference to clinch a berth in the Northeast-10 Championships.
