AMHERST, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's tennis team impressed in its 2015-16 home debut, defeating visiting Elmira College, 8-1, in non-conference action today at the Ellicott Tennis Courts.

With the win, Daemen improves to 3-1 overall this season, marking the first time in the brief history of the program that the Wildcats have moved to two games over .500.  The Soaring Eagles, a NCAA Division III affiliate and member of the Empire 8 Conference, fall to 1-3.

Daemen's No. 1 doubles team of Karli Hollins (Orchard Park, N.Y./SUNY Geneseo) and Hayle Scanlan (Indianapolis, Ind./Perry Meridian) set the tone early on with an 8-2 win over Elmira's Ellen Plowman and Ayaka Yoshino.

That was followed by a hard-fought win in No. 3 doubles by Daemen's Sarah Crissy (Tonawanda, N.Y./Kenmore East) and Delaney Fragale (Lockport, N.Y./Lockport).  Teaming together for the second time this season, Crissy and Fragale earned their first doubles win of the season, 8-6, over Elmira's Caitlyn Dwyer and Emily Green.

The lone bright spot for Elmira came in No. 2 doubles action where Megan Fitzgerald and Stephanie Tock scored an 8-4 win versus the Wildcats' Gretchen Ringler (North Tonawanda, N.Y./North Tonawanda) and Jessica Robins (North Tonawanda, N.Y./North Tonawanda).

In singles action, it was all Daemen as the Wildcats swept all five matches.  It's the second time this season that Daemen has won all five singles matches, and the first since their season-opening 9-0 shutout of Molloy College.

Hollins battled Yoshino in the No. 1 singles slot, winning a long first set, 7-6, before closing out the match with a 6-3 win in the second.  The win kept Hollins' singles mark unblemished (4-0) thus far this season.

Scanlan was a 6-1, 6-1 winner over Plowman in the No. 2 singles slot to run her season record to 3-1.  The same was true for Ringler and Robins who rebounded from their doubles defeat to win in the No. 3 and 4 singles slots, respectively.  Ringler took down Tock, 6-1, 6-2, while Robins was a little more stiffly tested by Ftizgerald, winning 6-3, 6-4.

Fragale (No. 5) and Crissy (No. 6) completed the sweep with wins at the backend of singles action.  Fragale downed Green 6-1, 6-0 and Crissy won 6-0, 6-4 over Dwyer.

Daemen jumps back into East Coast Conference play by visiting Roberts Wesleyan College tomorrow (Wednesday, September 16) for a 4 p.m. start in Rochester, N.Y.  The Wildcats (1-1 ECC) will be looking for their second league win of the season.

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