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ringler wten vs liu post 10.21.17
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Winner LIU Post LIUP (8-2, 6-1 ECC)
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Daemen DAEW (8-9, 1-6 ECC)
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Daemen DAEW
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Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | Mike Miranto, Associate A.D. For Communications

Women's Tennis Falls To LIU Post In Fall Season Finale

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AMHERST, N.Y. - Senior Gretchen Ringler became just for the second player in team history to reach 40 singles wins in a career, but it wasn't enough as the Daemen College women's tennis team suffered a 6-3 loss to visiting Long Island University Post in an East Coast Conference dual match at the Ellicott Tennis Courts this afternoon.

Ringler, who also ranks second in team history for combined singles and doubles wins in a career with 77, was a straight-sets winner (6-4, 6-3) today over LIU Post's Christina Jud in the fourth singles position. The win pushed Ringler's singles record to 10-8 this season, marking the second time in her career she's reached the 10-win plateau, as she sits seven wins shy of the team's all-time record (47) set by Hayle Scanlan (2013-16). It also helped Daemen to an even 3-3 split of today's singles matches.

Fellow Wildcat veteran Jessica Robins (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) won in the fifth singles position, defeating Meagan Byrne 6-3, 6-1. Robins, who's now 11-8 in singles play this season, matched her career-high for singles wins in a season which she set last year. She's now won three of her last four and seven of her last 10 singles matches, and the junior remains third in team history with now 31 singles wins in her career.

In the sixth singles position, junior Morgan Park (Hamburg, N.Y.) breezed past Isabelle Bifulco in straight sets (6-2, 6-1) for her career-best sixth win of the season.

LIU Post edged the Wildcats in the top three singles position, albeit all tighty-contested three-set affairs. ECC Player of the Year candidate Lara Scholtze rebounded from a tough start to knock off Daemen freshman Lorissa Yuen (Portland, Ore.) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Shanice Arthur, a former ECC Rookie of the Year, defeated DC's Giovanna Paschoalin (Sao Caetano Do Sul, Brazil) 6-3, 3-6, 6-0. And, Stanislava Klymova bested Christina Stasiuk (Bowmansville, N.Y.) 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.

Unfortunately for Daemen, their solid effort in singles play came after LIU Post escaped with three doubles wins to start the match. Klymova and Arthur teamed up to win a competitive match in the first doubles position (8-5) over the Wildcat duo of Yuen and Paschoalin. Ringler and Stasiuk dropped a 9-7 decision in second doubles to Scholtze and Hynes. And, Byrne and Jud were 8-2 winners of Robins and MacKenzie Robbins (Rome, N.Y.) in third doubles.

LIU Post improved to 8-2 overall and 6-1 in league play while clinching the No. 2 seed to next week's ECC Tournament. 

With the loss today, Daemen ends its fall season at 8-9 overall and 1-6 in ECC play. The team's eight wins are the most during the fall season in team history, and it leaves them just one win shy of matching the team record for wins in an entire season set during last year's 9-15 campaign. Daemen's 2017-18 season resumes in February. The team's spring schedule will be announced at a later date.



 
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