Women's Tennis | 9/18/2021 10:04:00 PM
ONEONTA, NY – Senior Caroline Breitweiser won at No. 3 doubles and then posted a straight sets win at No. 5 singles to lead the Nazareth College Women's Tennis team to an 8-1 victory over Hartwick College Saturday in Empire 8 action on the road.
The match was a little closer than the final score may indicate as Hartwick (3-2 overall, 1-1 Empire 8) scored wins in the first set of four different singles matches before the Nazareth (3-1, 2-0 E8) players came back to post wins in each match for the overall win.
The Golden Flyers won two of the three doubles matches as sophomore Aliya Guzman and freshman Claire Pullen remained undefeated on the season with an 8-2 win at No. 1 doubles while Breitweiser and sophomore Kaitlyn Spath took an 8-4 victory at No. 3 for the early Nazareth lead.
In singles action, Guzman was a 6-4, 6-4 winner at No. 1 and Breitweiser won a 7-5, 6-3 match at No. 5 singles.
In each of the remaining four singles matches, Hartwick opened the scoring with a first set win. Pullen came back and posted second and third set wins of 6-3, 6-1 to win at No. 2, senior Lauren Carr battled back with a 6-2 second set win and a 10-5 tie-breaker win to take the match at No. 3, freshman Lile Bulkeley came back with wins of 6-3 and 6-4 and Spath used a 6-4 second set win to tie the score in her match and won it with a 10-8 tie-breaker for the win.
Nazareth returns home to face Utica College at 1 p.m. Sunday to complete the weekend Empire 8 matches.