PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – It was a clean sweep for Jefferson University as Post University Women's Tennis hit the road for a rematch against the Rams on Saturday. While the Eagles did force a couple of tiebreakers in their matches, they would be unable to seal the deal on any victories in their 7-0 defeat at the hands of Jefferson, dropping to 1-5 in conference play with 10 days and four conference matches left to go in the regular season before the tournament. 

THE BASICS

Post University 0, Jefferson University 7

Post University (2-9, 1-5 CACC)

Jefferson University (4-4, 2-4 CACC)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
One of the three Doubles matches would end up going to a tiebreaker as senior Nina Langenfeld and freshman Annelein Van Urk in the #2 Doubles ended up tied at six all with junior Rose Huang and graduate student Anna Morgillo before falling during the tiebreaker points, 7-3. The #3 Doubles was a near-sweep for the Rams as junior Emily Frost and senior Zenia Barretto took down junior Gioia Turco and freshman Melanie Leussink, 6-1, securing the Doubles point for Jefferson.

Rounding out the Doubles sweep in the #1 Doubles was freshman Alycia Veroux and graduate student Nicole Hrbkova with a 6-3 win over senior Megan Lombardt and freshman Julie Merlin to head into Singles with a 1-0 lead.

It was more of the same in the Singles for the Rams as Hrbkova took down Merlin in the #2 Singles, 6-1 and 6-0, while the #4 Singles ended a short while later with 6-2 and 6-1 set wins for Morgillo over Van Urk to give Jefferson three team points.

Barretto swept through Melanie Leussink in the #5 Singles with a pair of 6-0 set wins to secure the team win for the Rams while Frost took down freshman Romy Leussink, 6-1 and 6-3 in the #6 Singles. The #1 Singles was led by Veroux who won 6-1 and 6-4 over Lombardt while Langenfeld put up a fight in the #3 Singles after taking set one against Huang, 6-4, but lost set two, 6-2, and then the 10-point tiebreaker set, 10-4, to round out the 7-0 sweep for Jefferson. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Nicole Hrbkova and Alycia Veroux, the #1 and #2 Singles players for Jefferson University moved to 7-1 on the season in Singles matches 
• Post University falls to 0-9 on the season when they lose the Doubles point of a match – The Eagles are 2-0 when winning the Doubles point
• This season, Nina Langenfeld has gone to a third set in six of her 11 Singles matches -- Langenfeld is 0-6 in Singles matches that go three sets this year 
• Post University has now lost nine consecutive matches against Jefferson University dating back to the 2018-19 season -- Their last win against the Rams was on October 13th, 2018 at home in a 5-2 win 

 
WHO'S NEXT
Post University continues its road trip against Wilmington University on Monday afternoon at 3:00 PM down in Wilmington, Delaware. The two teams met earlier in the week on Tuesday in Middlebury, Connecticut where the Wildcats swept past the Eagles, 7-0.