St. Thomas Aquinas Box Score
Adelphi Box Score
The Queens College women's tennis team ran its record to 6-0 on the 2011-12 season this weekend, as the Knights took identical 9-0 triumphs on Friday afternoon at St. Thomas Aquinas College , and Saturday versus Adelphi University - a fellow NCAA Division II Championships participant (along with the Knights) the last three seasons.
Friday: Queens 9, St. Thomas Aquinas 0
QC (4-0 in ECC action) took advantage throughout the match, as it gave up just two games combined on the afternoon. Newly-crowned ITA East Regional doubles champions, senior Linda Tatala-Colin (Laxou, France) and junior Erika Goldsmith (Edison, N.J.) swept past Christine Patruno and Faye Forman at the top of the lineup, while junior Daniela Celi (Casselberry, Fla.) and freshman Phoebe Chiem (Duluth, Ga.) also won 8-love – in the No. 3 flight versus Candice Zugibe and Samantha Vinci. Seniors Taylor Barber (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Andrea Salvetova (Plzen, Czech Republic) took home the victory at No. 2 doubles, besting Kristen Schimpf and Erin Maher by an 8-1 decision.
Tatala-Colin (Schimpf), Goldsmith (Patruno), Chiem (Maher) and Celi (Forman) won in the No. 1-through-4 singles slots by identical 6-love, 6-love scores. Meanwhile, Salvetova defeated Vinci at the No. 5 slot, 8-love, while Barber topped Zugibe in the No. 6 flight, 8-1.
Saturday: Queens 9, Adelphi 0
Queens (6-0) gave up just two games in doubles action, as Tatala-Colin and Goldsmith led the way at No. 1 doubles once again by outlasting AU's Maria Toft and Bianca Posa, 8-1. Sophomore Anna Rodionova (Orenburg, Russia) and freshman Francesca Fanchin (New York, N.Y.) bested Joanna Haich and Samra Redzematovic in the No. 2 flight by an 8-1 score, while Barber and Salvetova shutout Carolyn Smith and Michelle Gurda, 8-love, in the No. 3 position.
Tatala-Colin outlasted Toft, 6-3 and 6-1, at the top of the singles lineup, while Goldsmith defeated Gurda in the No. 2 flight, 6-1 and 6-3. Rodionova (6-1 and 6-2 over Redzematovic) and Fanchin (7-5, 6-2 versus Posa) emerged victorious at the Nos. 3 and 4 spots, respectively, while Chiem defeated Gaby Adia at No. 5, 6-love and 6-1. Lastly, Celi registered identical 6-love scores in the No. 6 flight against Taylor King.
Head coach Alan Nagel's Knights are back in East Coast Conference action Tuesday afternoon, when they play host to Molloy College at 3:30 p.m.
