WILMINGTON, Del. -- Taking on the defending Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference champions on the road, Post University Women's Tennis was swept for the third time this season and second consecutive match, 7-0, at the hands of Wilmington University, on Tuesday afternoon in Delaware. The Eagles are now 0-5 in conference play with five conference matches remaining, one of which will take place tomorrow as they take on Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware at 2:30 PM.
THE BASICS
Post University 0, Wilmington University 7
Post University (0-8, 0-5 CACC)
Wilmington University (7-1, 7-1 CACC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
With only five players available as junior
Ana Vasilis was ruled out for the match today. Post would be forced to default the #3 Doubles and #6 Singles, giving Wilmington the advantage of needing to win only one Doubles to secure the point, as well as handing them one Singles, which gave them a 1-0 lead right off the bat.
Senior
Gioia Turco and freshman
Savannah Croft would end up getting swept in the #2 Doubles, 6-0, against sophomores Ines Oliveira and Siana MacDonald, giving the Wildcats the Doubles, which they ended up sweeping with a 6-4 win in the #1 Doubles. That match saw sophomores
Julie Merlin and
Laura Kotala fall to sophomore Liza Sylka and freshman Elena Camacho.
Senior Gloria Bacaro secured technically the second Singles point of the day for Wilmington, beating Turco in the #5 Singles, 6-2 and 6-1, which was closely followed by Camacho's 6-2 and 6-0 win against Croft in the #4 Singles to put the Wildcats on the brink of the team victory. That would come moments late with Kotala falling in the #3 Singles to sophomore Ming-Fu Chen in straight 6-1 sets.
Rounding out the final two matches of the day, sophomore Molly Carlberg was victorious in the #2 Singles against freshman
Vitalina Sokoliuk, 6-3 and 6-1, while MacDonald took down Merlin, 6-1 and 6-3, in the #1 Singles, finishing the 7-0 win for the Wildcats.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Wilmington University has beaten Post University in 10 consecutive matches dating back to the 2021-22 season, as the last win for the Eagles came during the 2019-20 season, 5-2, at home
- Dating back to last season, Post University has lost 11 straight matches and 16 of its last 17 matches
- This is the first time since the 2014-15 season in which Post University has started the season at least 0-8, when they started 0-10
- Overall, this season, Julie Merlin has the best record on the team for Singles at 4-4 and Doubles at 3-5, following today's match
WHO'S NEXT
Playing in a rescheduled match against Goldey-Beacom College, Post University gets right back to it tomorrow afternoon against the Lightning, with the match getting underway at 2:30 PM. The Eagles have lost their last two matches against Goldey-Beacom, both of which were last season, after winning the previous three matches before that.
