Women's Tennis Beats UMass, 4-3

Thursday, February 24

Hanover, N.H.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

UMASS

2/25/2011 8:44:00 AM | Women's Tennis

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth women's tennis team beat Massachusetts, 4-3, on Thursday at the Boss Indoor Tennis Center to improve to 5-4.

Dartmouth won the doubles point and got singles wins from senior tri-captain Molly Scott (Trabuco Cyn, Calif.) at first singles and sophomore Christina Danosi (New Albany, Ohio) at fourth singles. Freshman Melissa Matsuoka (Newport Beach, Calif.) put the final singles point on the board at second singles to give the Big Green an insurmountable 4-0 lead, but the Minutewomen prevailed in three sets in the final three matches.

Dartmouth returns to action at home on Saturday at 1 pm vs. Binghamton.

Singles
#1 Molly Scott defeated Yuliana Motyl; 6-1,6-1
#2 Melissa Matsuoka defeated Julia Comas; 4-6,6-1,6-0
#3 Ryan Reichel lost to Candynce Boney; 1-6,6-4,6-3
#4 Christina Danosi defeated Kaitlyn Carpenter; 6-1,6-2
#5 Georgiana Smyser lost to Jessica Podlofsky; 1-6,6-3,6-1
#6 Valeriya Tatisheva lost to Chantal Swiszcz; 6-7,7-5,1-0
#7 Rachel Decker-Sadowski defeated Jocelyn Providence; 8-3
#8 Shelley Carpeni defeated Tanisha Hodgson; 8-6

Doubles
#1 Scott/Matsuoka defeated Swiszcz/Motyl; 8-1
#2 Smyser/R. Reichel lost Boney/Hodgson; 8-7
#3 J. Reichel/Danosi defeated Carpenter/Podlofsky; 8-1