Box Score Binghamton, NY – The SUNY Oneonta women's tennis team completed its fall season today, falling in the semifinals of the SUNYAC tournament to Geneseo 5-2.  The Red Dragons finished the fall season with an 11-2 record that included a nine-match win streak and a 5-4 win against Geneseo that ended a 40 match conference winning streak.

The difference in today's match was in doubles where the Red Dragons found themselves in a 3-0 hole.

Normally when a team goes down 3-0 after doubles the dual match becomes one which is very difficult to recover from.  However, the Red Dragons on this day were not ready to throw in the towel.  The number two freshman combatant Julieta Eulau (Oceanside/Oceanside) from Oneonta won her match 6-2, 6-1 over the junior from Geneseo completely surprising the Knights that helped the Red Dragons to climb their way back into the contest.  Then the number four player for Oneonta freshman Mya Lipscomb (Peekskill/Walter Panas) defeated a senior from Geneseo scoring a lopsided win and surprised her opponent 6-2, 6-3 giving her a perfect 13-0 undefeated record in the fall season.  The score in the dual match was now 3-2 and the drama really began to take form.  Number one singles player junior Alyssa Brault (Rochester/Churchville-Chili) won the first set in a tiebreaker and was up one set to love.  At number six singles sophomore Danielle Swierczyna (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) playing with fliu-like symptoms was locked in a battle having lost the first set but was ahead 3-2 in the second set when play was halted.  The dual match unfortunately came to an abrupt end when the Red Dragons lost at the number three and five spots giving the Knights the necessary five individual match wins to clinch a spot in the finals for the SUNYAC Championship.

With three freshmen and one sophomore in the starting lineup, the Red Dragons are extremely optimistic of continuing its upward run.  The 11-2 record during the fall season was its best in the past 15 years.

The SUNY Oneonta Red Dragons women's tennis team will have a few months to recover and then will begin a nine-match spring season.  Their first match in the spring will be held in Orlando, Florida on March 7^th beginning at 9 AM against Oglethorpe University of Atlanta, Georgia.