CHESTERTOWN, MD -- Visiting Salisbury University, the 16th-ranked team in the Atlantic South region, topped host Washington College, the region's eighth-ranked team, 7-2, in a non-conference women's tennis match this afternoon at Schottland Tennis Center. The Sea Gulls improved to 10-9 with the win, while the loss dropped the Shorewomen to 10-7.
The Sea Gulls won all three doubles matches to take a 3-0 lead. Roxanna Alban and Jillian Poppe, the region's 10th-ranked doubles team, beat seniors Jordan Finnegan (Wilmington, DE/Archmere Academy) and Gabie Batista (Sykesville, MD/Century), 8-5, at No. 1; Elaine Iosue and Katie Youlios beat juniors Kat Cohen (Springfield, MA/Williston-Northampton School) and Campbell McNicol (Mill Neck, NY/St. George's School), 8-6, at No. 2, and Allison Lutz and Victoria Handlin handled junior Kelsey Mills (Cambridge, MD/Cambridge-South Dorchester) and senior Meghan Tait (Oxford, PA/Oxford Area), 8-2, at No. 3.
Salisbury increased the lead to 4-0 with a 6-2, 6-2, win by Iosue over McNicol at No. 2 singles. Washington got on the board with Cohen's 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, win against Alban at No. 3. The Sea Gulls clinched the win when Handlin blanked sophomore Amy Stevens (Street, MD/North Harford), 6-0, 6-0, at No. 5. Youlios added a 7-6(5), 6-2, win agains Batista at No. 4 for Salisbury before Finnegan, ranked sixth in the region in singles, recorded the Shorewomen's second point of the match, winning a marathon duel against Poppe at No. 1, 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-2. Lutz provided the final margin with a 6-1, 6-0, win against Mills at No. 6.
Today's match was the final regular-season match of the year for the Shorewomen. A win by Dickinson over Muhlenberg this Saturday would clinch the fifth and final seed in the Centennial Conference Tournament for the Shorewomen.
