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Women’s Tennis: #18 Garnet Fall to #12 CMU at NCAAs

LEXINGTON, Va. - 12th-ranked Carnegie Mellon won four straight singles' matches to defeat 18th-ranked Swarthmore 5-2 in the first round of the NCAA Division III Team Tennis Championships hosted by Washington & Lee University on Saturday afternoon.

Swarthmore took a 2-1 lead after the doubles' competition as the Garnet No.2 duo Jennie Park '09 and Erica Lukoski '08 defeated CMU's Sheena David and Samantha Shultz 8-4 and the No. 3 Garnet pair of juniors Waverly Lutz and Sara Sargent downed Kelly Nakamura and Alison Liu 8-6.  Swarthmore's top doubles' tandem, juniors Sonya Reynolds and Marissa Matthews, fell to the Tartans Mona Iyer and Amy Staloch 8-4 at No. 1s.

The Tartans (16-6), ranked fourth in the Atlantic South region, rolled back to win the match with strong play in singles' action.  David downed Matthews 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3 singles and Liu fought past Sargent 6-2, 7-6 (6) at No. 4.  Nakamura cruised past Swarthmore's Emily Townsend '06 6-2, 6-3 while Shultz got past Lutz 6-2, 6-3 to send Carnegie Mellon into the second round against top-ranked Washington & Lee.

The Reynolds/Staloch match at No.1 and the Park/Iyer match at No. 2 were suspended as the outcome of the overall match was determined, as per NCAA rules.

The Garnet (16-3) saw their season-high win streak end at 14 in a row.  Swarthmore will look forward to Reynolds' second appearance in the NCAA Division III Individual Tennis Championships in Santa Cruz, CA on May 17-22. 

Carnegie Mellon 5, Swarthmore 2

SINGLES
1. Amy Staloch (CMU) vs. Sonya Reynolds (SC) unfinished
2. Mona Iyer (CMU) vs. Jennie Park (SC) unfinished
3. Sheena David (CMU) def. Marisa Mathews (SC) 6-4, 6-4
4. Alison Liu (CMU) def. Sara Sargent (SC) 6-2, 7-6 (8-6)
5. Kelly Nakamura (CMU) def. Emily Townsend (SC) 6-2, 6-3
6. Samantha Schultz (CMU) def. Waverly Lutz (SC) 6-2, 6-3
 
DOUBLES
1. Mona Iyer/Amy Staloch (CMU) def. Marisa Mathews/Sonya Reynolds (SC) 8-4
2. Erica Lukoski/Jennie Park (SC) def. Sheena David/Samantha Schultz (CMU) 8-4
3. Waverly Lutz/Sara Sargent (SC) def. Alison Liu/Kelly Nakamura (CMU) 8-6

 

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