Kitsa Scime backhands a ball vs Allegheny on Sept. 8, 2024

Max Sacco

Women's Tennis Set to Face Molloy at Home, Kutztown and Millersville on the Road

10/10/2024 11:55:00 AM

By: CONTACT: Max Sacco, Assistant Athletics Communications Director | msacco@daemen.edu

ON THE COURT
The Daemen University women's tennis team continues their push to qualify for the East Coast Conference Women's Tennis Championship with a 7 p.m. home contest against Molloy University on Oct. 11. The Wildcats then head to the Keystone State for a pair of matches against Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) foes Kutztown University on Oct. 14 and Millersville University on Oct. 15. Opening serve is set for 2 p.m. and 11 a.m., respectively.

LAST TIME OUT
Defending ECC Tournament champions St. Thomas Aquinas College defeated Daemen, 7-0, in ECC women's tennis action on Oct. 5 at the Riley Family Tennis Courts. St. Thomas Aquinas opened the contest by winning on all three doubles courts to secure the first point of the match. Moving to singles, 2023 All-ECC First Team Kitsa Scime (Williamsville, N.Y.) battled fellow first team selection Elita Silins at No. 2 singles, but ultimately lost, 6-2, 6-3. At No.3 singles, senior Yinett Del Leon (Cape Coral, Fla.) opened her match by taking an early 2-0 lead against Elisa Semmartin. Still, Semmartin came back to win the first set, 6-3 and eventually the match by a final score of 6-3, 6-0. The Spartans swept the remaining matches to seal the 7-0 victory.

CLOSING IN ON HISTORY
Scime currently sits six wins away from claiming the program record for singles wins with 50. Currently, the Williamsville, N.Y., native, has 44 career singles wins which places her third all-time in program history and three away from tying Hayle Scanlan (2013-17) for second all-time. Christina Stasiuk (2017-22) holds the program record for career singles wins with 49. This season, Scime is 6-1 with a 4-1 mark on No. 2 singles and 2-0 record at No. 1 singles.

SEEING YOU IN PENNSYLVANIA
So far this season, the Wildcats are 1-0 against teams from Pennsylvania as they defeated Allegheny College, 6-1, on Sept. 8. Kutztown and Millersville are the second and third teams from the state the Blue and White will face this year. Daemen is 1-1 all-time against Kutztown and 1-3 against Millersville in program history.

WILDCATS IN THE POLLS
The Wildcats were tabbed fourth in the 2024 East Coast Conference Women's Tennis Preseason Coaches' Poll following a vote of the leagues six coaches back on Aug. 19. Greco has led Daemen to the postseason all three years while at the helm of the program, qualifying as the fourth seed last season. Queens College, the defending ECC Regular Season champions, received four first-place votes and topped the poll with 34 points. Defending ECC Tournament champions St. Thomas Aquinas College finished second in the poll, garnering two first-place votes (31 points) and the University of the District of Columbia (24 points) rounded out the top three. The ECC Women's Tennis Championship is set for Oct. 25-26 in Flushing, N.Y., with the top four teams qualifying.

MEN'S TENNIS UPDATE
The Daemen University men's tennis team is 2-1 so far this Fall and won their last match, 6-1, against Nazareth University on Sept. 24. The doubles partnership of junior Rohan Chitanand (Den Haag, Netherlands) and senior Jayven Williamson (Minneapolis, Minn.) remain undefeated at 3-0. The men will take on the Rochester Institute of Technology art home on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m., before joining the women's team to take on Kutztown and Millersville next week.

SCOUTING MOLLOY (1-8, 0-3 ECC)
The Lions, who were tabbed last in the ECC Women's Tennis Preseason Coaches' Poll, dropped their last match against the University of the District of Columbia, 6-1, on Oct. 4. Senior Elena Baughman Saunders earned the lone win for Molloy at No. 1 singles during the match. Freshman Erin Sanchez leads the Lions in overall singles wins with two this year.

SERIES HISTORY
Daemen leads the all-time series, 7-4 and has won the last three matches against Molloy. Last year, the Wildcats defeated the Lions in Oceanside, N.Y., 5-2.

SCOUTING KUTZTOWN (1-0, 0-0 PSAC)
PSAC members Kutztown earned their lone win of the year with a 4-3 victory over Rutgers-Camden back on Sept. 21. At the ITA Atlantic Regional Championships from Sept. 13-14, the doubles duo of Emma Semery and Isabela De Nadai did not advance out of the round of 32, losing 6-2 to Delaney Tingle and Alexandra Cave of West Chester University.

SERIES HISTORY
The two sides have only played twice with both teams winning once. Last season, Daemen swept Kutztown, 7-0, in Reading, Pa.

SCOUTING MILLERSVILLE (0-1, 0-0 PSAC)
Fellow PSAC foe Millersville dropped their lone dual match of the year to the District of Columbia, 4-3, back on Sept. 28. In the team's last outing at the Bloomsburg Tournament, sophomore Lauren Hayes was crowned the winner of the third singles flight with three consecutive wins on the final day of the tournament. Hayes also represented the Marauders lone flight champion of the event.

SERIES HISTORY
Millersville leads the all-time series, 3-1, and won the last meeting between the two sides, 5-2, back on Sept. 24. 2023.

UP NEXT
The Wildcats wrap up the regular season portion of the Fall on Oct. 19 when they face crosstown rival D'Youville University at 4 p.m.

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