Navy Match Results | Bryant Match Results
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Norfolk State women's tennis team lost a pair of matches over the weekend in Maryland, falling to Navy, 5-2, on Saturday and to Bryant, 6-1, on Sunday at Navy's Dyer Tennis Clubhouse.
NSU saw its record drop to 4-15 overall, while Navy improved to 20-9 and Bryant evened its record at 9-9.
Against the Midshipmen, junior Naeemah Brooks and freshman Gabriella Jonsson won in both singles and doubles to lead the way for NSU. The duo defeated Dye Das and Darien Sears, 8-6, at No. 1 doubles, before picking up wins in singles.
Jonsson downed Natalie Houle at No. 2 singles, 7-5, 6-4, while Brooks took care of Katie Laderer at the third singles slot, 6-3, 6-1. Senior Chenge Tsapayi nearly came away with the win at No. 4 singles after winning the first set over Caitlin Olsen, 6-4. Olsen, though, stormed back to claim the next two sets, 6-1, 6-4.
In the other doubles matches, Houle and Olsen downed senior Jennifer Astbury and sophomore Rebecca Graff, 8-4, at No. 2 doubles. Laderer and Haley Adams posted an 8-2 win against Tsapayi and freshman Maryna Kariuk at the third position.
Das earned a 7-2, 7-6 victory over Astbury at No. 1 singles, and Adams pulled out a 6-4, 6-3 win over Graff at No. 5 singles. At the sixth position, Julia Zook grabbed a 6-4, 6-3 win over Kariuk.
Facing the Bulldogs on Sunday, Graff picked up the lone win of the day for the Spartans. She defeated Katharine Francazio at No. 5 singles, 6-3, 6-1. Brooks nearly did the same at the third position, taking the first set over Stephanie Smyers, 6-2. Brooks could not hold the momentum, dropping the second set, 6-4, and then the third-set tiebreaker, 10-5.
At the fourth singles spot, Tsapayi fell in straight sets to May Vickers, 6-4, 6-0, while Kariuk came up short against Irma Rodriguez-Lockwood, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 6 singles. At the top of the lineup, Claudia Hidalgo defeated Astbury at No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-0, while Lucy Bird downed Gabriella Jonsson at the second position, 6-2, 6-3.
Earlier in the day in doubles, Bryant took all three matches for the 1-0 lead. Vickers and Valeria Couto Cuervo earned an 8-3 win at No. 1 doubles over Brooks and Jonsson, and Smyers and Bird swept Astbury and Graff at the second position, 8-0. Hidalgo and Rodriguez-Lockwood posted an 8-2 victory over Tsapayi and Kariuk at No. 3 doubles.
The Spartans will wrap up the regular season with a makeup match against Longwood Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the NSU Tennis Courts.
