Oneonta, NY (Wilbur Park) – The SUNY Oneonta women's tennis team took its 4-0 record to Wilber Park today to face their city rivals and came away with a 9-0 shutout of Hartwick.
The doubles got underway with a new look lineup today as the number one tandem of freshman
Stephanie Menoutis (Warwick/Warwick Valley) paired with junior
Mya Lipscomb (Peekskill/Walter Panas) and doubled up their opponents 8-4. Sophomore
Olivia Fraser (Queensbury/Queensbury) and junior
Gianna Papini (Helwett/George W. Hewlett) were perfect in their rout of the number two duo from Hartwick going 8-0. Sophomore
Amelia Wilson (Averill Park/Averill Park) joined forces with freshman
Maxie Karen (New York, NY/The Clinton School) and they also went on to shutout their Hartwick opponents in the third flight 8-0.
A 3-0 lead going into singles play was too much for the Hartwick Hawks to comeback from. Sophomore
Rebecca Macdonald (Brooklyn/Leon M. Goldstein) played up in the lineup holding the singles lineup together at the top spot cruising to a 6-1, 6-2 win. Freshman
Emily Greene (Dix Hills/Half Hollow Hills West) had little trouble advancing playing today in the second flight on route to a 6-3, 6-1 win. Sophomore
Giovanna Buccina (Syracuse/Westhill) had a perfect score double bageling her opponent tallying a 6-0, 6-0 win in the third singles spot. The fourth flight saw sophomore
Ariel Loucks (Averill Park/Averill Park) dominate her opponent and never really got into any trouble notching up a 6-1, 6-3 win. Papini took the singles court in the fifth position today and was almost perfect in setting her opponent back with a 6-1, 6-0 for her second victory on the afternoon. Putting up her second victory on the day was Menoutis who went onto play in the sixth spot and she won 6-2, 6-3 clinching the shutout for the Red Dragons and securing a 5-0 start to the season.
The Red Dragons get underway again on Saturday, September 14
th with a 10:45 AM start playing their second crucial SUNYAC match of the young season verse SUNY Oswego on the campus of Oswego.
Â