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Box Score 2 SELINSGROVE, PA – Susquehanna women's tennis made it easy for fans to come out to their matches this weekend and just as easy to cheer for with a pair of victories. On Saturday they headed up the road to Williamsport to defeat Penn College and on Sunday opened their home season in Landmark Conference style, beating Elizabethtown. Both matches resulted in 6-1 victories.
In Saturday's matchup with the Wildcats the River Hawks swept doubles, as
Alexa Wanamaker and
Mackenzie Romig beat Faith Murray and Emlyn Kinley, 6-4. At two
Claire Gallagher and
Kaiya Reisinger beat Kayla Weinzierl and Gwynn Johnson, 6-1. In the three spot
Abigail Freeman and
Macey DiBastiani won by default. Freeman picked up the default win at six singles to add another point to SU's side of the board, with her teammates picking up the gauntlet with four more singles wins. Wanamaker dismissed Kinley at one, 6-0 and 6-2, while Romig, Maguire, and DiBastiani all claimed 6-0, 6-0 shutout wins at three, four, and five, respectively.
Late Saturday evening a storm blew through Selinsgrove. While the skies cleared in plenty of time for Sunday's conference opener, the River Hawks brought a flurry of wins to prevail over the Blue Jays. They took two of three doubles matches to secure the first point as at one, Wanamaker and Romig defeated Gabriella Palladini and Haley Bishop, 6-3, while the three tandem of Gallagher and Freeman beat Hannah Walleer and Taylor Dukes by a 6-1 score. The River Hawks took five singles matches from two on down. Yoder's two singles match ended in retirement due to injury, while at three Romig beat Adriana Burmeister, 6-4 and 6-1. DiBastiani won a competitive opening set at five singles, 7-5, against Walleer, then claimed set two, 6-4.
Kaiya Reisinger added more good measure at six beating Dukes, 6-1 and 6-1. McGuire represented the lone three-setter for singles in the four spot, defeating Katie Balzano. She dropped the first frame, 7-5, but bounced back to take sets two and three, 6-0 and 6-3.
Susquehanna has two weeks of down time before its next competition, welcoming Misericordia to the friendly confines of Garrett Tennis Courts on Saturday, Oct. 5.
