April 17, 2011

West Hartford, Conn. - Stony Brook University's women's tennis team split a pair of conference matches on Saturday afternoon. SBU lost to Binghamton, 4-2, before blanking Hartford, 6-0.

The loss to Binghamton snapped an eight-match winning streak for the Seawolves, who are now 14-4. Both matches were singles only due to impending rain.

Binghamton won the first two matches off the court as Anna Edelman defeated sophomore Nini Lagvilava (Tbilisi, Georgia) at No. 1 and Jillian Santos knocked off junior Prerana Appineni (Hyderabad, India) at No. 3. Junior Salome Mkervalidze (Brewster, N.Y.) then earned the first point of the match for Stony Brook with a 6-3, 7-5 win at No. 6.

But the Bearcats won at the No. 2 and No. 5 spots to clinch the match. Senior Gayatri Krishnan (Chennai, India) won in three sets at No. 4 to earn Stony Brook's other point.

SBU then cruised to victory against Hartford, winning all six matches in straight sets. Stony Brook had three players win without losing a game and two players that dropped just one game.

The Seawolves will wrap up their regular season next Saturday, hosting UMBC.

Binghamton 4, Stony Brook 2
Singles
1. Anna Edelman (BU) def Nini Lagvilava (SBU) 6-1, 6-2
2. Lauren Bates (BU) def Aylin Mehter (SBU) 6-1, 6-4
3. Jillian Santos (BU) def Prerana Appineni (SBU) 6-4, 6-3
4. Gayatri Krishnan (SBU) def Yulia Smirnova (BU) 6-7 (2-7), 6-1, 6-4
5. Marina Bykovskaya (BU) def Katherine Hanson (SBU) 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
6. Salome Mkervalidze (SBU) def Emma Leibowicz (BU) 6-3, 7-5
Order of finish: 1, 3, 6, 2, 5, 4

Stony Brook 6, Hartford 0
1. Nini Lagvilava (SBU) def. Katina Zampas (UH), 6-0, 6-1
2. Aylin Mehter (SBU) def. Maggie Sabatino (UH), 6-0, 6-0
3. Prerana Appineni (SBU) def. Ashley Harel (UH), 6-0, 6-1
4. Salome Mkervalidze (SBU) def. Nicole Haynal (UH), 6-3, 6-0
5. Fanny Charliquart (SBU) def. Kaitlin Lennon (UH), 6-0, 6-0
6. Chloe Pike (SBU) def. Emily Willhoft (UH), 6-0, 6-0