Fisher Wins; E8 Competes at ITA Regional
St. John Fisher 8, Houghton 1
The St. John Fisher College women's tennis team snapped a two-match losing streak, defeating host Houghton College 8-1 Saturday afternoon. With the win Fisher improves to 3-5 overall and 3-2 in Empire 8 play.
Fisher swept doubles action with
Katie Pasier/
Lauren Burke taking first singles 8-1,
Rosalie O'Brien/
Alissa Cornacchia won second doubles 8-3 and
Eileen Fleming/
Olivia Rotondo captured third doubles 9-7.
Pasier, O'Brien and Cornacchia cruised in their singles matches, Pasier winning 6-3, 7-5 in first singles, O'brien taking third singles 6-3, 6-0 and Cornacchia winning fourth singles 6-0, 6-4.
Lauren Burke and
Eileen Fleming won their respective singles matches to round out the scoring.
ITA - Northeast Regionals
Nazareth senior
Alison Tepas and freshman
Jean McCarthy each won their first-round contests on Saturday.
In her first match, Tepas defeated Jane Selegean of Hunter. The first set was close as Tepas outlasted Selegean 7-6. Tepas overwhelmed Selegean with a 6-1 victory in the second set. McCarthy defeated Drew's Deanna Williams by the score of 6-3, 6-4 in her first-round match.
Tepas and McCarthy each fell in their respective second-round matches. Alison Wang of NYU edged Tepas in a close match by the scores of 6-7, 7-6, 10-7. McCarthy fell to Jasmine Muniz Cadorette by the score of 6-3, 6-1.
In doubles, Tepas teamed with freshman
Sara Kashtan. The Golden Flyer tandem fell in their first-round match by the score of 8-6 to Kristin Ackerman and Nicole Riley of Sage.
Elmira junior
Amy Schmidt picked up a first round victory at the USTA-ITA Northeast Regional Championships Saturday afternoon. Her three-set win is the first main draw victory in Elmira College women's tennis history at the prestigious tournament.
Schmidt drew SUNY Brockport's Lauren Bohman in the first round in a matchup of number one singles players. The third-year standout dropped the first set 5-7, but rallied to take the second set 6-3. The match came down to the deciding, third-set super tiebreaker where the first to 10 points gets to advance. Schmidt stood strong in the third set and completed her comeback with a 10-7 victory. The captain's run would unfortunately end in the next round as she would fall to the number 13 seeded player in the tournament, Marylen Santos of SUNY Geneseo.
Ayaka Yoshino drew a tough assignment in the first round, going up against the number 15 seed, Maite Vera Antelo of RIT. Yoshino threw everything she had at Antelo, but it was not enough as she fell 6-2, 6-0. The 2012 Empire 8 All-Conference Honorable Mention honoree received a walk-over in the first round of the consolation draw and will be back in action tomorrow morning.
Schmidt was back on the courts for the first round of doubles play with her partner,
Kayla Fitzgerald as the pair took on a doubles team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). RPI proved to be too strong for EC's first doubles team, defeating the duo 8-2. The Soaring Eagles also lost their first consolation match 8-1 to the number two seeded doubles team from NYU, who were upset in the first round of the championships.
Cristina Nunez of the Ithaca College women's tennis team has moved into the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regionals following two convincing wins on the second day of play Sunday. In the round of 16, Nunez beat Emily Hallewell of Vassar 6-4, 6-0. She went on to a 6-0, 6-0 win over Melissa Hirsch of Skidmore in the quarterfinal round. Semifinals and the tournament championship will be held Monday. Nunez is the tournament's top seed and will face Yuliya Orkis of Brooklyn College in the semifinals.
In the first round, Nunez defeated Georgia Comber of St. Lawrence 6-1, 6-1 and then beat Amanda Rosati of Geneseo 6-1, 6-3 in the second round.
Allison Vizgaitis and
Haley Kusak also advanced to the second round of the singles bracket. Kusak came from behind to win 3-6, 6-4, 10-5 over Christine Ho of Rochester and Vizgaitis defeated Emma Allen of The College of New Jersey 7-6 (8-6), 6-1. Both Ithaca players were knocked out in the second round by seeded players.
In doubles play, the team of Vizgaitis and
Marni Blumenthal won a first-round match 9-7 over Ashley Lyon and Hannah More of William Smith. In the second round, the Ithaca duo was ousted 8-6 by Ashley Masanto and Alison Wang of NYU.
University of Rochester Invitational
Members of the Ithaca College women's tennis team competed at the University of Rochester Invitational, which matched players from Ithaca, The College of New Jersey and the host U of R Yellowjackets in round-robin singles and doubles matches on Saturday. Ithaca's representatives went 4-2 in doubles matches and 1-2 in singles matches on the afternoon.
The doubles team of
Kelly Fishback and
Alyssa Steinweis was a perfect 3-0. They won 8-4 in the first round, won the second round via tiebreak 9-8 (7-1) and capped an undefeated day with an 8-4 win over a duo from TCNJ in the third round.