The Malone University women's tennis team lost a home match to the visiting Walsh University Cavaliers by the score of 7-2 on Wednesday. The loss snapped Malone's five-match winning streak as the Pioneers fell to 6-8 overall on the season and to 1-7 in GLIAC play. Walsh improved to 2-6 overall and to 2-6 in the GLIAC.
Six of the nine matches were extremely close with the Cavaliers earning victories in four of those contests. After Walsh posted victories at #2 and #3 doubles to start the match, it appeared that Malone would take the #1 doubles match to trim its deficit to just 2-1 heading into the singles matches. But the visitors rallied to collect a 9-7 win at #1 doubles to take a 3-0 advantage into the singles contests.
Although Malone battled toe to toe in nearly every singles match on the day, the Pioneers emerged the victor in only the #1 and #2 singles contests as
Asia Harris and
Erika Lester, respectively, pocketed the wins for the team.
Scores for the match were as follows:
Singles:
Malone Walsh Winner Score
1.
Asia Harris Shellie Webster Malone 6-3, 4-6, 1-0
2.
Erika Lester Alisha Angle Malone 4-6, 6-1, 1-0
3.
Kim Knisley Allison St. George Walsh 7-5, 7-5
4.
Kaley Kahoun Kayla Shaheen Walsh 6-4, 7-5
5.
Janelle Linder Mary-Catherine Beck Walsh 6-1, 6-1
6.
Marie Konstan Arina Kravitz Walsh 6-3, 7-5
Doubles:
Malone Walsh Winner Score
1. Lester/Knisley Webster/Shaheen Walsh 9-7
2. K. Kahoun/Linder Angle/St. George Walsh 8-1
3. Harris/Konstan Beck/Jaclyn DiDomenico Walsh 8-4
The Pioneers will look to bounce back in their next contest as they host Ashland University (7-1, 7-1 GLIAC) on Friday in a 12:00 p.m. match.
