Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer

Women's Tennis Wraps Up Regular Season with Win Over Curry

Women's Tennis Wraps Up Regular Season with Win Over Curry

MILTON, Mass. – The Lesley University women's tennis team won their fourth straight match this afternoon with an 8-1 non-conference win over Curry College.  With the win the Lynx wrapped up their best regular season since 2009 as they improve to 10-3 on the season, while the Colonels fall to 1-13 overall.

The Lynx swept all three double matches and were victorious in five singles matches.  The Colonels earned their only win at the #2 singles spot.

Lesley's No. 1 singles player, freshman Caroline Kiddie (Scituate, Mass.) won her match 6-4, 6-2 against junior Kimberly Love (Windsor Locks, Conn.).  Curry's sophomore Kayla Prete (Orange, Conn.) earned her team's only point on the day at the No. 2 slot when she claimed her victory over senior Carissa Iverson (St. Johnsbury, Vt.), 1-6, 6-0, 10-8. In No. 3 singles, the Colonels junior Hannah Erickson (Mount Desert, Maine) was bested by sophomore Carlyn Barker (Murrieta, Calif.), 3-6, 6-4, 10-5.

At No. 4 singles, Lynx senior Emma True (Lee, N.H.) upended senior Alison Rhodes (Rye, N.H.), 6-2, 6-1 before Curry freshman Jennifer Dube (Coventry, Conn.) fell to junior Christyl Skelton (Burlington, Mass.), 6-3, 6-2 in the No. 5 flight. In the final singles match, Lesley's Meghann Toomajian (Nahant, Mass.) swept freshman Sanjay Toure (Brockton, Mass.), 6-0, 6-0.

In doubles, the top duo of Barker and Kiddie bested Love and Prete, 8-4.  At the No. 2 doubles slot, True and senior Molly Phelps (Durham, N.H.) outlasted Erickson and Rhodes, 8-5.  In the final match on the day, the Lynx No. 3 tandem of junior Victoria Bunker (Auburn, Maine) and Iverson defeated Toure and Dube, 8-1.

Lesley returns to action on Saturday, October 18, in the NECC Semi-finals.