Savannah Bailey won at fourth singles 7-6, 1-6, 11-9.

April 8, 2017

Women’s Tennis Falls to Moravian in Home Opener

HUNTINGDON, Pa.- The Juniata women’s tennis team played its first match of the 2017 season on Saturday afternoon against Moravian. The Greyhounds defeated the Eagles by the score of 7-2.

Team Stats

Game Statistics	Moravian College	Juniata Eagles
Score	7	2

Doubles

Rachel Yurchisin / Vienna Cordier def. Brittney Eady / Skylar Oliwa 8-5
Lauren Steinert / Eiman Nazif def. Lauren Lucas / Savannah Bailey 8-5
Kate Rennar / Emily Snyder def. Souyma Polavarapu / Theresa Joson 8-3

Singles

Brittney Eady def. Lauren Lucas 6-4 , 6-3
Skylar Oliwa def. Rachel Yurchisin 6-4 , 7-5
Eiman Nazif def. Vienna Cordier 7-5 , 6-2
Savannah Bailey def. Lauren Steinert 7-6 (7-5) , 1-6 , 11-9
Kate Rennar def. Kelley Appow 6-4 , 6-0
Grace Bailly def. Theresa Joson 6-2 , 6-2

HUNTINGDON, Pa.- The Juniata women's tennis team played its first match of the 2017 season on Saturday afternoon against Moravian. The Greyhounds defeated the Eagles by the score of 7-2.

Juniata took one match in doubles play. At first doubles, the pair of Rachel Yurchisin (Cleveland, Ohio/Padua Franciscan) and Vienna Cordier (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) were victors over Kate Rennar and Emily Snyder 8-3.

The lone win for the Eagles in the singles portion occurred in the final match of the day at fourth flight. Savannah Bailey (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) outlasted Lauren Steinert in a super tiebreaker 7-6, 1-6, 11-9.

The women return to the Raffensberger-Brumbaugh Courts tomorrow afternoon when they host Elizabethtown. Start time is 1:00 p.m.