ROCHESTER, N.Y. – RIT women's tennis senior Kirsten Auble broke a tie match to give the Tigers a 5-4 victory over visiting William Smith at the Gordon Filed House, Tuesday.

Auble and senior graduate student Julia Smolowitz gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead with an 8-0 opening third doubles match against Charlotte Sanford and Crystal Morgans. William Smith took the next two matches to enter singles play with a 2-1 lead after sophomore Abby Murray and senior Julianne Ho fell in second doubles to Isabelle Goings-Perrot and Julia Pida, 8-3, and sophomore Jackie Drozd and freshman Gabby Donohue lost at first doubles to Maggie Bonomo and Audreyanna Camacho, 8-5.

In singles play the match was tied four times before Auble sealed the win with set wins of 6-3 and 6-1. Murray made it 2-2 after beating Morgans in fourth singles, 6-0, 6-1. Ho gave the Tigers its first lead at 3-2 with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Lucy Evans in sixth singles. William Smith tied the match at 3-3 after Drozd fell to Bonomo in a pair of 6-0 sets in first singles. Smolowitz restored the Tigers edge at 4-3 after defeating Sanford at fifth singles, 6-1, 6-0. Willam Smith tied the match at 4-4 after Donohue fell to Goings-Perrot in second singles, 6-1, 6-2.

Women's Tennis next hosts St. Lawrence on Friday, April, 15 at 1 p.m. at the Gordon Field House.