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D'Youville DYC (3-7, 0-5 ECC)
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Winner Daemen DAEW (4-6, 2-3 ECC)
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Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | CONTACT: Mike Miranto, Senior Associate A.D. for Communications & Operations

Daemen Downs D'Youville, Earns Conference Tournament Bid

Wildcats are No. 4 seed in this weekend's ECC Championship

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. - For the second time in as many seasons, the Daemen women's tennis team is postseason bound.

The Wildcats secured the fourth and final spot in this weekend's East Coast Conference Championship tournament by defeating crosstown rival D'Youville 7-0 in a late Tuesday night match at Miller Tennis Center. As the No. 4 seed, the Wildcats will face top-seeded District of Columbia at 11 a.m. Friday (Oct. 29) at the Queens College Tennis Center in Flushing. 

With the win tonight, Daemen snapped a four-match slide and improved to 4-6 overall and 2-3 in conference play. It also marked the Wildcats' sixth wins in as many lifetime meetings with D'Youville. Five of those victories have come since the start of last season. The Saints, who are competing in the ECC for a second season as the program transitions from NCAA Division III to Division II, dropped to 3-7 overall and 0-5 in conference. 

All six players who saw action for the Wildcats earned victories in both singles and doubles play. Daemen opened the match by sweeping through doubles action. Frida Rubio (San Diego, Calif.) and Kitsa Scime (Williamsville, N.Y.) teamed up for just the second time this season and earned their first victory together, downing DYC's Taylor Nash and Yuliia Kashtelian 6-1 on the number one doubles court. Yinett Del Leon (Cape Coral, Fla.) and Mackenzie Schayes (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) were 6-0 winners on the second doubles court over Katelyn Hoover and Alisson Meissner. And on the third doubles court, Daemen's Hannah Pagano (Goshen, N.Y.) and Ailish McDevitt (Jamesville, N.Y.) took down Layah Campolo and Taylor-Anne Austin by a 6-2 score.

It was more of the same as the match shifted to singles action. In perhaps the most competitive match of the night, Rubio outlasted Kashtelian 7-5, 6-4 on the first singles court to pick up her team-leading sixth singles win of the season. Rubio, just a sophomore, has 25 combined singles/doubles wins in her career, moving her into a tie for ninth place on the program's all-time wins list.

Scime picked up the fifth singles win of her freshman season by downing Nash in straight sets (6-0, 6-0) on the second singles court. Del Leon and Schayes nearly matched Scime's unblemished score, winning their No. 3 and No. 4 singles matches by identical 6-0, 6-1 scores. 

The match concluded with two additional victories for the Wildcats as Pagano took down Austin (7-6, 1-0 [7-4]) on the fifth singles court and McDevitt bested Campolo (7-6, 1-0 [8-6]). It marked McDevitt's first career singles victory as she rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the opening set.

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