Women’s Tennis is now set to take on the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom Championship Final tomorrow, May 4, at Braddock Park, in North Bergen, NJ. The team secured their place in this match following a 6-0 record throughout the conference, and having defeated Arcadia University last Tuesday, April 30.
Their regular season in the conference ended with an 8-0 win over King’s College on Saturday, April 27. This match began with singles, played by sophomores Stephanie Untermeyer, Anya Sharma, and Aliona Heitz, as well as first-years Julianna Gomez, Julia Chiovitti, and Lorena Piegas. Each player took their victory in two sets, with point differentials never reaching below three, though Sharma was the only one to achieve a 6-0, 6-0 win. Piegas, Sharma, Heitz, and Chiovitti all won two matches during the day, and they went on to win their doubles matches as well. This match would also be Piegas’s seventh straight win in doubles.
The Ducks fought Arcadia University in the MAC semifinals on April 30 in Bayonne, NJ. They had previously played Arcadia in the regular season, where they had clinched an 8-1 victory, with their one loss coming from a loss in a singles match. This time, the Ducks rolled Arcadia 5-0, with Untermeyer and first-year Alix Dry securing two wins during the day. The two paired up in doubles, where they went 8-1, followed by 8-3 and 8-1 wins by doubles pair Piegas and senior Polina Odintseva and doubles pair Gomez and junior Isabella Dona. In singles, Dry and Untermeyer took the same 6-1, 6-0 victory, and while the rest of the matches were unfinished, each of the other Ducks had won their first set and were up in their second.
Now on a nine-win streak, the team is set to take on either Lebanon Valley College or Misericordia University tomorrow, Saturday, May 4, in the MAC Freedom Championship Final. Should they secure the win, this will be their third straight MAC Freedom title.
