Roger Williams Nets 6-3 Win Over Women’s Tennis

BOSTON – The Suffolk women's tennis team put up a tough battle against Roger Williams Monday night at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, but  it was not enough, as the Hawks left Boston with a 6-3 victory. 

Roger Williams used strategic play taking two doubles courts and four wins in singles action to improve to 4-1 on the year. 

Playing as the Rams (2-2) top tandem for the first time this season, Aidiana Sagyndyova and Rebecca Eshoo were handed an 8-3 loss by the racquets of Lauren Schmidt and Julie Akerman. Abby Trigilio and Valentine Medina put Suffolk on the board as the junior and freshman teamed up for an 8-4 victory in the second slot against Harley Kaiserman and Caroline McCarthery. In the toughest doubles match of the night, the Hawks' salvaged a point with an 8-6 win by Katie Hughes and Gabby Riley over Lyndsay Reese  and Isabel Rathlev on the third doubles court. 

With the Rams down 2-1, Roger Williams quickly made its edger larger thanks to triumph on the fourth court. Trigilio was taken down by Akerman who tallied a golden set, before securing the victory with a 6-1 second-set score. 

Sagyndykova rallied a comeback for Suffolk as she downed Kaiserman, 6-2, 6-3, on the first court to keep her 2015 singles perfect record in tact. 

The comeback was short-lived as the Hawks' used a 6-1, 6-0, victory from Schmidt over Eshoo in the third position to bring their lead up to 4-2. 

Medina kept the Rams chances alive when the San Andrés Colombia native defeated Hughes, 6-4, 6-1, in the second spot, to make it 4-3. 

Roger Williams did not let Suffolk tally another win as it went on to capture the fifth and sixth courts. Rathlev fell to Ali Starkiewicz, 6-2, 6-0, at No. 5, while Elena Cisneros dropped her collegiate debut to Riley, 6-0, 6-0 in the sixth slot. 

Suffolk does not get a break as it returns to the courts tomorrow afternoon when it travels to UMass Dartmouth for a reschedule match.