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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Goldey-Beacom College women's tennis team closed out its Fall 2010 regular season with a resounding, 9-0 win over Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference foe University of the Sciences in Philadelphia at Bergman Courts at McNeil Field.
The Lightning (10-1, 7-1 CACC) earned all three doubles points and all six singles points for their fourth 9-0 shutout victory of the season. USciences fell to 2-6 overall and in conference.
GBC head coach Joe Kissel shifted his lineup today to give the Lightning's regular No. 3 and No. 5 singles players, junior Marina Sales and freshman Laura Cure, a rest. Sophomore Melanie Bonomo moved up from her usual No. 4 to play the third flight, freshman Gabriela Chaves moved up from No. 6 to play No. 4, senior Luciana Pereira slid up to No. 5 and twin sister Daniela Pereira played her third singles match of the year at No. 6.
Bonomo earned her second win in as many matches at No. 3 when she defeated Laney Jones in a pro-set match, 8-4. She improved to 9-2 for the season. Chaves responded to her two-spot bump-up with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Juliet Choi for her fourth win of the season (her first at No. 4). Luciana defeated Desiree Vassalotti in a pro-set match, 8-2, and Daniela bested Michelle Adamczyk, 6-3, 6-2. Both Pereira sisters stayed undefeated, with Luciana owning a 7-0 mark and Daniela, a 3-0 record. The Lightning improved to 29-3 at the bottom three singles slots as a team for the season.
Sophomore Blanca Sancho and freshman Marie-Louise Klein also added wins at No. 1 and 2 singles, respectively. Sancho defeated Sara Durham in a pro-set match, 8-6, and Klein defeated Bridget Frymoyer, 6-2, 6-2. Sancho finished the regular season with a first flight record of 3-6 and Klein finished 7-3 (6-3 at No. 2, 1-0 at No. 1).
The Lightning took all three doubles points for the sixth time this season. Sales and Cure did play on their respective doubles team today, and both were victorious. Sales teamed up with Klein at first flight doubles for an 8-2 win over Durham and Frymoyer. That pair finished the regular season 5-3 at the No. 1 spot. Cure and sophomore Vanessa Leon improved to 9-1 with a convincing, 8-0 win at No. 3, and Sancho and Chaves won their No. 2 match, 8-4 to finish the regular season 8-1. Collectively as a team, GBC is 25-8 in doubles play this season.
With the regular season complete, GBC now has its eye on its first-ever CACC championship. The Lightning have now earned a post-season berth three times since the program's inception in 2005. They first will have to get past Holy Family in the semifinal match on Tues., Oct. 19 at McKean HS.
This will mark the third consecutive meeting between these two schools in the semifinals. Holy Family hosted and won the first, 5-0 in 2008 before falling to Philadelphia University in the finals, 5-3. Last year, GBC hosted its first-ever semifinal match and defeated the Tigers, 5-4 in an epic match that lasted nearly five hours and was played at two different sites.
