Women's Tennis | 9/12/2017 7:07:00 PM
Box Score ROCHESTER, NY – The RIT women's tennis team (1-0) swept The College at Brockport (1-5), 9-0 in its 2017-18 regular season home opener on Tuesday from the sun-drenched RIT Tennis Courts.
The Tigers started off the match with three resounding wins in doubles action. The number one doubles spot finished first, as
Amelia Ying (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) and
Shayna Ginster (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas) rolled to an 8-0 win over Zoe Sharp and Nina Cabahug. At the number three spot RIT's
Claire Casalnova (Mars, PA/Pine Richland) and
Kristen Zablonski (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) earned an 8-3 victory over Autumne Venturino and Kelsey Shanahan. The final doubles win of 8-0 was recorded by
Diana Kulawiec (Fairport, NY/Fairport) and
Annie Steinbrink (Upper Dublin, PA/Upper Dublin) at the second spot over Jen Kiely and Liz Bean.
Ying won 6-0, 6-0 at the first singles spot, beating out Brockport's Kelsey Shanahan and Steinbrink clinched the match win at fourth singles (6-3, 6-0) over Jen Kiely. Zablonski moved to 5-0 in singles action by sweeping Liz Bean 6-1, 6-0 at the fifth spot, and Casalnova won the third spot 6-0, 6-0 over Autumne Venturino.
Kulawiec won at sixth singles, 6-1, 6-0 over Nina Cabahug, and Ginster secured the shutout with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Zoe Sharp at second singles.
The Tigers are back in action this weekend at the Daemen Invitational hosted by Daemen University. Action starts at 5 p.m. Friday and continues Saturday at 10 a.m.
