WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Post University Women's Tennis continued to roll on Thursday afternoon, earning their third sweep of the season and second in the last three matches, taking down Molloy University, 7-0, on the road at Sportime Hempstead Lake to improve to 5-1 with momentum on their side having won five straight heading into a critical conference matchup against preseason favorite and defending conference champion Wilmington University on Friday afternoon. 

THE BASICS
Post University 7, Molloy University 0 

Post University (5-1)

Molloy University (0-3)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
For only just the second time this season, the Eagles would not be able to sweep the doubles as junior Megan Lombardt and sophomore Micaela Rosignuolo dropped their first match as a duo in their last eight outings together, 7-6, in the #1 Doubles against juniors Noor Goyvaerts and Elena Baughman Saunders. 

However, the team point still went to Post for the sixth time in as many matches with sophomore Natalia Gonzalez Ramos and graduate student Annunciata De-Souza getting back on track after their doubles loss the other day with a 6-3 take down of freshman Alice Fartushynska and senior Camilla Caballero Abreu. Winning their fifth straight match as a duo this year, graduate student Julia D'Occhio and junior Nina Langenfeld dispatched of freshman Isabella Fortaleza and junior Maggie Kutner with ease in the #3 Doubles, winning 6-1. 

It was a sweep for the Eagles in the singles across the board as Rosignuolo was victorious for the fourth straight time in singles this year, winning 6-1 and 6-4 over Caballero Abreu in the #1 Singles. A straight sweep was in order for Gonzalez Ramos in the #4 Singles with back-to-back 6-0 wins over Farushynka which Lombardt nearly did the same against Fortaleza in the #6 Singles with 6-1 and 6-0 victories.

Rounding out the sweep would be senior Oceane Mallevre with identical 6-3 set wins over Baughman Saunders in the #3 Singles while identical 6-2 set wins by D'Occhio against Kutner in the #5 Singles would do the job. The toughest matchup of the singles would come in the #2 Singles as Langenfeld would be taken to three sets by Goyvaerts after a first set sweep. 

The two would go into a tiebreaker in set two in which Goyvaerts would tie things up with a 7-6 win before the 10-point tiebreaker swung in favor of Langenfeld, 10-8, capping off her fourth singles win of the season and the 7-0 sweep for the Eagles who notched their fifth consecutive win and third sweep of the year. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• For the second straight year, Natalia Gonzalez Ramos swept her singles opponent (6-0, 6-0) this time doing it in the #4 Singles after doing it in the #6 Singles last year 
• The doubles duo of Nina Langenfeld and Julia D'Occhio won their fifth consecutive matches together after dropping their opening match of the year, improving to 5-1 on the year 
• The duo of Megan Lombardt and Micaela Rosignuolo had their eight-match winning streak snapped with their #1 Doubles loss today
• This is the first time in the history of the head-to-head matchup in which Post University has swept Molloy 

 
WHO'S NEXT
Post University returns home to take on defending Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference champion Wilmington University (Del.) on Friday afternoon at 1:00 PM. The Wildcats were a perfect 10-0 in conference play last season and have defeated the Eagles in three consecutive matches over the last two years while being 7-2 all-time against them.