CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Mount Ida College women's tennis team fell at the hands of the Rams of Suffolk University by a final score of 9-0 in the quarterfinal round of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) tournament on a rainy Wednesday night at the Buckingham Browne and Nichols Athletic Center.
With the win, Suffolk will move on to play the # 2 seeded Wildcats of Johnson and Wales University, while the loss ends the Mustangs season.
Mustang junior Rose Schneider (Lowell, Mass.) won the only two games in singles action for Mount Ida against Ram Abby Triglio (Ipswich, Mass.), but eventually fell by final scores of 6-1, 6-1.
In doubles action, Mustangs Rebecca Levy (Plymouth, Mass.) and Olivia Budney (Webster, Mass.) took two games from Aidiana Sagyndykova (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Adrianna Garrett (Plymouth, Mass.) but were unable to muster up much more and eventually falling 8-1, 8-1. Mustang senior Patti-Anne Doucette (Lynn, Mass.) and Schneider were also able to garner two games away from Rebecca Eshoo (Farmington, Conn.) and Triglio in # 2 doubles action. Eshoo and Triglio took both, by finals of 8-1, 8-1.
Sophomore Aidiana Sagyndykova (Almaty, Kazakhstan) extended her winning streak to 12 in singles play cruising in the top individual game by winning in consecutive sets of 6-0.
Suffolk would win five of their six singles games with players posting back to back 6-0 scores.
Senior Adrianna Garrett (Plymouth, Mass.) and junior Rebecca Eshoo (Farmington, Conn.) each won their singles contests by those scores.
Garrett who took the number two singles game earlier partnered with Sagyndykova for an 8-1 victory in the number one doubles game to earn the duo's 11th win on the year as a tandem.
Eshoo picked up her ninth singles victory of the season and also added a win in doubles play with junior partner Abby Trigilio (Ipswich, Mass.).
Also earning wins for Suffolk in singles play were juniors Lyndsay Reese (Saco, Me.) and Anna Gleason (Plymouth, Mass.).
Freshmen Jacqueline Nakamura (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Isabel Rathlev (Wellesley, Mass.) rounded out the field with their victory in the third doubles game.
Some Content Courtesy of Suffolk University Sports Information.