SYOSSET, N.Y. – Playing their final cross-divisional match of the year, the Queens College women's tennis team
(9-6 overall) matched up against the Division I NEC member Long Island University Sharks
(10-10 overall) at the Sportime Syosset Complex Sunday evening.
Facing tough competition, the Knights would fall 6-0 on Sunday evening as the Sharks earned doubles points before earning five singles matches to earn the victory.
The Knights #3 doubles duo of
Chloe Certain (Obernai, France) and sophomore
Rea Hagishima (Tokyo, Japan) fell first to the score of 6-1 to Saki Oyama and Bianca Compuesto.
The home side would clinch the doubles at #2 court as the duo of junior
Caroline Hany-Fawzy (Alexandria, Egypt) and freshman
Apolline Lamy (Toulouse, France) were defeated 6-1 by the pair of Leopoldine Boisseau and Marion Deloziere.
The #1 doubles match between seniors
Maja Makal (Bialystok, Poland) and
Gabriela Sciarrotta (Woodmere, N.Y.) against Victoria Erechtchenko and Elinor Storkaas went unfinished.
In singles play, Certain would fall at #5 singles to Ekaterine Jorjoliani to the score of 6-2, 6-1.
Makal fell at #1 singles to Boisseau to the score of 6-0, 6-3 before the Sharks clinched the match at #3 singles as Fawzy fell 6-3, 6-0 to Compuesto.
At #4 singles, Sciarrotta would fight back before she fell 7-5 to Storkaas. But the Woodmere native would earn a second set victory of 6-4 before falling short in the tiebreaker 10-6.
With the match already lost, Hagishima would play an eight-set pro match against Jasmine Maduel but it would be Maduel who would earn an 8-5 victory.
While at #2 singles it would be a back-and-forth match between Lamy and Oyama before Lamy earned a hard-fought first set victory over 7-6
(7-5) but the overall match would be stopped after the rookie defeated Oyama in the first set.
NEXT MATCH: Head Coach
Alan Nagel and the Knights stay on the road as they travel to Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday (Apr. 12) afternoon in a crucial East Regional matchup against Jefferson University Rams. First serve set for 3:00 p.m.
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