BOX SCORE
When and Where: March 16, 2019 – Goffstown, N.H. (YMCA Allard Center)
Score: Southern New Hampshire University 7, Roberts Wesleyan College 0
Records: SNHU 8-9, RWC 10-8
Senior Anna Sala (Matadepera, Spain) won both of her top-flight matches, including the clincher at No. 1 singles, to lead the Southern New Hampshire University women's tennis team to a 7-0 victory against Roberts Wesleyan College on Saturday night at the YMCA Allard Center of Goffstown.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Freshman Alexxa Etienne (Bayamon, Puerto Rico) and senior Rachel Wagner (Framingham, Mass.) opened the match with a 6-0 No. 2 doubles victory against Bijisha Shrestha and Salome Darsalia, before Sala and classmate Sofia Morais (Porto, Portugal) clinched the doubles point with a 6-2 win at No. 1 over Nthabi Mogopodi and Andrea Gallardo. Freshmen Lior Pachuorkovski (Zoran, Israel) and Elizabeth Dwyer (Cutchogue, N.Y.) finished off the doubles sweep by doubling up Marousia Bosch and Laura Freeman, 6-3, at No. 3.
- Pachuorkovski kicked off singles play by making quick work of Shrestha, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 4.
- Morais made it 3-0 with a 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Gallardo at No. 2 singles.
- Sala then clinched the match for the Penmen with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Mogopodi at No. 1.
- Etienne battle Bosch at No. 3, eventually pulling out a 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 win.
- Dwyer defeated Darsalia, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2 at No. 6.
- Wagner polished off the win by outlasting Freeman, 7-5, 4-6, 10-5, at No. 5.
NOTES
- The victory snaps a three-match losing skid for SNHU.
UP NEXT
- The Penmen return to action Sunday, April 7 (11 a.m.) when they play host to Endicott College.
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