WILMINGTON, Del. -- In search of their first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference championship, Post University Women's Tennis entered this week's CACC Tournament as the fourth seed taking on top-seeded, defending champion Wilmington University on Friday morning at the Delcastle Tennis Center. After narrowly dropping their last match to the Wildcats, the Eagles would be unable to answer Wilmington this time around, falling 4-1, in the CACC Semifinals to close their season. 

THE BASICS
Post University 1, Wilmington University (Del.) 4 

Post University (6-11)

Wilmington University (10-1)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
In just 21 minutes, Wilmington would take two doubles to end that portion of the match after graduate student Valentina Ivankovic and junior Fenna Swaan swept sophomore Micaela Rosignuolo and junior Megan Lombardt, 6-0, in the #1 Doubles followed by a 6-1 win for seniors Larize Nel and Jess Purdy over graduate student Annunciata De-Souza and sophomore Natalia Gonzalez Ramos to earn the point. 

De-Souza would go on to briefly tie the match up at one all after winning the #1 Singles over junior Kushi Khandoji, 6-3 and 6-1, but it would be short-lived as the Wildcats would win the next three matches necessary to take the win. Senior Oceane Mallevre would drop the #4 Singles with a pair of 6-1 sets against Ivankovic followed shortly after by Lombardt falling to sophomore Alva Norberg in the #3 Singles, 6-3 and 6-2.

After just under an hour and a half, the 4-1 victory for Wilmington would be capped off in the #2 Singles by Purdy over Rosignuolo with set wins of 6-1 and 6-2 to end the Eagles' season. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Primary #1 Doubles duo Megan Lombardt and Micaela Rosignuolo end the season with a 7-6 record together in the Doubles 
• Annunciata De-Souza, closes her final season with an overall record of 11-3 on the season in singles 
• Four of the eight Post University players from this fall will enter the tournament with records at or above .500 in singles this year 
• Post University ends the season dropping six straight matches and 10 of their last 11 after starting 5-1 on the year 
• Post University has now lost six consecutive matches to Wilmington University dating back to 2019