Easton, Mass. – Top-seeded Stonehill College registered a 4-0 victory over the fourth-seeded Le Moyne College women's tennis team in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships semifinals on Friday afternoon at the Charles Watt Tennis Courts
The Skyhawks earned the point in the doubles competition to take a 1-0 lead in the match. At the first position, Alexandra Vo and Annelise Howick registered a 6-1 win over senior
Tiffany Hamdan (Johnson City, N.Y./Johnson City/Roberts Wesleyan) and freshman
Birdem Oz (Istanbul, Turkey/TED Ankara College Foundation HS). Isabelle Porter and Samantha Ormesher clinched the point for their team by edging sophomores
Marta Nunez (Rye, N.Y./Antonio Lopez (Spain)) and
Caroline St. Antoine (Longueuil, Québec/Cégep Édouard-Montpetit) at the second spot, 7-5. Nicole Downey and Caroline Ray were leading sophomore
Camila Humala (Lima, Peru/Antonio Raimondi) and freshman
Brooke Fernandez (Shirley, N.Y./William Floyd) at the third spot, 6-5, when the doubles point was clinched.
Stonehill earned three wins in the singles competition to secure the match. Howick gave the Skyhawks a 2-0 lead with a 6-2, 6-1 win at the fifth position over freshman
Belen Wibmer (Maldonado, Uruguay/St. Joseph Mary College). Vo made the score 3-0 with back-to-back 6-2 wins over Oz at the second spot. Porter closed out the match with consecutive 6-4 victories at the first position over Hamdan. Nunez was leading Ormesher at the third position, 6-4, 4-3 when play was stopped, while Emma Markaryan and Downey had leads over St. Antoine and Humala at the fourth and sixth spots, respectively.
Le Moyne, which finishes the Fall season at 12-5, opens play in the Spring season on Saturday, February 23 against Daemen College.