Nichols slides past Women’s Tennis

Box Score DUDLEY, Mass. – Nichols College defeated the Roger Williams University Women's Tennis team 7-2 in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action Saturday afternoon at the Pomfret School.

The Bison got off to a fast start, sweeping the doubles matches. Freshman Alanna Judd (Westborough, Mass.) won both her singles and doubles matches Judd and freshman Lauren Candia (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) defeated junior Lauren Schmidt (South Windsor, Conn.) and senior Alexandra Brown (Kennett, Mo.) 8-2 at No. 1 doubles.

At No. 2 doubles senior captain Lindsay Benoit (Holden, Mass.) and sophomore Cristina Szepanski (Windsor Locks, Conn.) had no trouble with sophomore Harley Kaiserman (Setauket, N.Y.) and her classmate Caroline McCarthy (Carver, Mass.), winning 8-2.

The Hawks (6-3, 3-2 CCC) put up a fight at No. 3 doubles. Freshmen Kathryn Hughes (Westford, Mass.) and Gabrielle Riley (Barnstable, Mass.) took the match to extra sets before falling to the freshmen-duo of Ashley Dallaire (East Bridgewater, Mass.) and Daniela Saldarriaga (Medellin, Colombia) 9-7.

Benoit stretched the Bison lead to 4-0 after winning at No. 3 singles 6-1, 6-0 over Kaiserman.

Roger Williams tried to make a match out of it, winning both the No. 5 singles and No. 6 singles matches. Freshman Ali Stankiewicz (Brunswick, Maine) defeated Dallaire 6-2, 6-2 at No. 5 singles while at No. 6 singles, Riley defeated Saldarriaga 6-1, 6-3.

Nichols swept the remainder of the singles matches. Judd defeated Schmidt 6-3, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and Szepanski took down Hughes 6-2, 6-4 at No. 2 singles.

Candia rounded out the afternoon at No. 4 singles, defeating McCarthy 6-0, 6-3.

The Bison travel to take on conference-foe Gordon on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. Roger Williams travels to take on Western New England at 3:30 p.m.

- Release courtesy of the Gordon College Sports Information Department

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