PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Closing out their two-match road trip, Post University Women's Tennis traveled back to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to square off against undefeated Jefferson University on Thursday afternoon, falling in conference play, 7-0, and dropping to 0-7 on the season.
THE BASICS
Post University 0, Jefferson University 7
Post University (0-7, 0-4 CACC)
Jefferson University (8-0, 7-0 CACC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Eagles would be unable to capture any individual matches today, as the Rams did not allow Post players to reach four points in a single set of any of the nine matches played on Thursday. Sophomore Alyvica Veroux and freshman Anouk Oderkerk took the #1 Doubles over sophomores
Julie Merlin and
Laura Kotala, while both the #2 and #3 Doubles finished with identical 6-2 final scores. The #2 Doubles was played by junior
Ana Vasilis and freshman
Vitalina Sokoliuk against freshman Marely Alvarado and senior Rose Huang, while the #3 Doubles featured senior
Gioia Turco and freshman
Savannah Croft against freshman Sophia Babar and senior Emily Frost.
Once again seeing each other in the #1 Singles, Vasilis and Oderkerk squared off with Oderkerk coming out on top 6-0 and 6-3, while Merlin and Veroux did battle in the #2 Singles, which went in favor of the Rams, 6-1 and 6-0. Two other matches would finish with those identical set scores in the #4 Singles with Kotala and Huang, as well as the #6 Singles with Croft and Frost.
The two remaining outliers to this trend would be in the #3 Singles, where Sokoliuk fell to Alvarado, 6-2 and 6-3, and the #5 Singles, where Turco lost to Babar, 6-1 and 6-2, finishing the 7-0 sweep for Jefferson.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Jefferson University has now swept Post University in three of its last four head-to-head matchups and won 10 straight matches against them
- Dating back to last season, Post University has lost ten straight matches and 15 of its last 16 matches
- This is the first time since the 2014-15 season in which Post University has started the season at least 0-7, when they started 0-10
- Overall, this season, Julie Merlin has the best record on the team for Singles at 4-3 and Doubles at 3-4, following today's match
WHO'S NEXT
Post University returns home to face Goldey-Beacom College this Saturday at the Edgewood Bath and Tennis Club at 1:00 PM. The Eagles are 4-18 in the all-time series against the Lightning, dropping both of their matches against them last season after winning the previous three.
