NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Sacred Heart women's tennis team powered past Colgate 6-1 on Sunday afternoon at Yale, winning its first match of the spring to improve to 2-4.
Katie DeRienzo and Taylor Gurda clinched the doubles point with a 6-4 victory at second doubles after Olivia Podsiebierski and Claudia Ruiz had teamed for their first win of the year, 6-3, at third doubles. Podsiebierski now leads the team with nine doubles win, one ahead of DeReizno's eight. Lindsey Post and Paige Olson narrowly missed out on the giving SHU the sweep, dropping a tiebreaker at first doubles.
Sweeping singles matches on the afternoon were DeReinzo, Olson and Gurda, with DeReinzo extending her team lead in wins to seven. Podsiebierski and Ruiz each took three sets to eventually finish off their opponent. Podsiebierski is now an even 4-4 at singles after recovering from a 3-6 setback in the first set to take the second and third, 7-5, 6-2. After winning the opening set 6-3, Ruiz dropped the second, 4-6, before claiming the third set tiebreak, 8-6.
Sacred Heart returns to Yale on Saturday to take on Hartford at 5 pm.
Singles
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1. DeRIENZO, Katie (SHU) def. HYLAND (COLGATE) 6-0, 7-5
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2. HO (COLGATE) def. POST, Lindsey (SHU) 6-3, 6-2
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3. OLSON, Paige (SHU) def. BRITTIN (COLGATE) 6-2, 6-4
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4. PODSIEBIERSKI, O. (SHU) def. GRANT (COLGATE) 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
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5. GURDA, Taylor (SHU) def. SZCZECH (COLGATE) 6-4, 6-2
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6. RUIZ, Claudia (SHU) def. KLEIN (COLGATE) 6-3, 4-6, 8-6
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Doubles
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1. HO/HYLAND (COLGATE) def. POST, Lindsey/OLSON, Paige (SHU) 7-6
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2. DeRIENZO, Katie/GURDA, Taylor (SHU) def. BRITTIN/GRANT (COLGATE) 6-4
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3. PODSIEBIERSKI, O./RUIZ, Claudia (SHU) def. KLEIN/SZCZECH (COLGATE) 6-3
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