BRONX, N.Y. (October 4-6, 2024) - The Stonehill College women's tennis team spent a three day weekend in the Bronx and competed in 22 singles matches and eight doubles match over the three-day tournament. Other teams participating in the tournament were Army, FDU, Fordham, Hofstra, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Providence, Saint John's, Stony Brook, and Yale.
In total, 72 student-athletes competed in singles matches between the 10 schools in attendance at the Invitational while there were 40 doubles teams. For complete results from this weekend's invitational, click
HERE.
Stonehill Singles Highlights:
Flight B – Final
Sophomore
Julie Holte (Oslo, Norway) defeated Paula Menendez (NJIT), 8-2.
Flight E – Final:
Junior
Anneliese Beltran (Mexico City, Mexico) defeated Erika Beltran (Providence) in the flight E semi-finals but fell in the final to Hofstra's Deniz Soyer, 3-8.
Flight F – Final
Freshmen
Lilah Shallcross (Prospect, Ky.) lost a close quarterfinal match in the main draw 4-6, 6-7, (4-10) to Fordham's Lorraine Bergmann.
Shallcross went on to win the E Flight Consolation 8-6 over Providence's graduate student, Elise Leik.
Flight I:
Freshman
Piper Remillard (Durham, Conn.) lost in the quarterfinal of the main draw to FDU's Anais Jenkins, 6-3, 4-6, 4-10.
Doubles Highlights:
Remillard and fellow freshman
Lia Lihtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) won their flight over Hofstra's Ava Veneziano and Mary Madigan 7-6 (7-4).
Sophomores
Madison Warren (Frederick, Md.) and
Alice Brito Do Rio (Angra do Heroismo, Portugal) defeated FDU's Katsiaryna Kostsina and Ann Kato 7-6 (7-2). Warren and Brito lost in the final 6-7 (1-7) to the Providence College duo of Flora Eidson and Allison Root.
Up Next:
Stonehill women's tennis is back in action this weekend at Harvard University for the International Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Championships in Cambridge, Mass. beginning on Thursday, Oct. 10. Student-athletes will compete in singles and double matches with the chance of playing until Tuesday, Oct. 15 if they make it through qualifiers.