Women’s Tennis Notches 8-1 Victory Over Wilmington (DE)

Women's Tennis | 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM

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Goldey-Beacom won all three doubles rubbers and took five singles encounters for an 8-1 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference win over Wilmington (DE) at Delcastle Tennis Center in Wilmington, DE.

Sophomore Anna Hortelano Pey (Castelldefels, Spain) and freshman Fredrika Regner (Langaryd, Sweden) opened things with an 8-5 victory at second doubles over Begona Gomar and Tess Paya. It was their first match since playing Monday in the ITA East Region final.

Freshmen Lotte Lesscher y Post (Arnhem, Netherlands) and Catarina Zheng (Oporto, Portugal), semifinalists in the same tournament, recorded an 8-2 win over Anushka Sathe and Andrea Ribalta at first doubles with sophomore Alma Garcia Valle (Valladolid, Spain) and junior Manuela Cornejo (Quito, Ecuador) getting an 8-5 win over Laura Gil and Sabrina Blasi-Smith at No. 3 doubles.

Lesscher y Post notched a 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 1-0 (10-4) victory at first singles over Gomar, Zheng got a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 2 singles over Gil and Hortelano Pey posted a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over Sathe at third singles. Hortelano Pey made the ITA East singles semifinals and was picked to the league's Weekly Honor Roll.

Regner, named CACC Rookie of the Week, notched a 7-6, 6-1 win vs. Ribalta at fourth singles and Cornejo got a 6-1, 6-1, victory at sixth singles vs. Blasi-Smith.

Goldey-Beacom (5-0, 4-0 CACC) and Concordia-NY (4-0) remain atop the CACC. Wilmington drops to 1-1 in the league and 2-4 overall.

Goldey-Beacom is home Friday against Holy Family, starting at 3:30 pm.

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