WILMINGTON, Del. – Freshman Savannah Croft won her first collegiate Singles match on Thursday afternoon as Post University Women's Tennis completed its two-game road trip on Thursday afternoon, falling to Goldey-Beacom College, 6-1, as they still search for their first win of the 2025-26 campaign with only four matches remaining. 

THE BASICS

Post University 1, Goldey-Beacom College 6

Post University (0-9, 0-6 CACC)

Goldey-Beacom College (2-4, 2-4 CACC)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Still without junior Ana Vasilis, Post would have to once again default the #3 Doubles and #6 Singles, giving the Lightning a 1-0 lead and only needing to win one Doubles to capture a second point right off the bat. They would do that with their #1 Doubles win as senior Lucia Corte and sophomore Camilla Franzin swept through sophomores Julie Merlin and Laura Kotala, 6-0, and then the #2 Doubles went in favor of senior Nahomi Quinonez and freshman Jenna Frank, 6-1, against freshman Vitalina Sokoliuk and senior Gioia Turco.

Sophomore Ihsane Achouri picked up the default win in the #6 Singles, which would be closely followed by Frank sweeping through Kotala in the #3 Singles in straight 6-0 sets. The second team victory of the season for the Lightning would come after Thaler was a 6-1 and 6-0 victor against senior Gioia Turco in the #4 Singles, before Goldey-Beacom would capture two more Singles matches. 

The first of those two would be Quinonez against Sokoliuk, 6-3 and 6-1, in the #2 Singles, as well as Franzin over Merlin in a three-set thriller in the #1 Singles. Merlin would stave off a sweep with a 6-4 win in set two following her 6-1 loss in set one, before dropping the 10-point tiebreaker, 10-4. Croft would go on to win the only match of the day for the Eagles in the #5 Singles, 7-6 with a 7-4 tiebreak win and 6-3 against senior Elina Mukhamadeeva.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Savannah Croft picked up her first collegiate Singles win in the #5 Singles after dropping her first eight matches of the season
• Dating back to last season, Post University has lost 12 straight matches and 17 of its last 18 matches 
• This is the first time since the 2014-15 season in which Post University has started the season at least 0-9, when they started 0-10 
• Post University has lost its last three matchups against Goldey-Beacom College since the start of last season, after winning the previous three before that

 
WHO'S NEXT
On Saturday, Post University will face Dominican (N.Y.) in its final road matchup of the 2025-26 regular season at 1:00 PM. The Eagles hold a 7-1 record in the all-time series against the Lady Chargers since they first started playing each other during the 2019-20 season.