MATCH 8 – Daemen at Queens | Oct. 5 | 1 p.m. | QC Tennis Bubble | Queens N.Y.
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MATCH 9 – Daemen at St. Thomas Aquinas | Oct. 6 | 11 a.m. | Riley Family Tennis Courts | Sparkill, N.Y.
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ON THE COURT
The Daemen University women's tennis team prepares for their toughest road swing of the season as they head downstate to play defending ECC Regular Season champions Queens College on Oct. 5, before facing reigning ECC Tournament champions St. Thomas Aquinas College on Oct. 6.
HONOR ROLL
Freshman
Zoe Gietmann (Hamburg, Germany) was tabbed to the ECC Women's Tennis Honor Roll this past week. The freshman went 2-0 in Daemen's non-conference victory over SUNY Fredonia, winning No. 3 doubles with teammate
Lily Goodemote (Saquoit, N.Y.), 6-3, and winning No. 3 singles over the Blue Devil's Gabriella Farr, 6-1, 6-0. For her career, Gietmann is 2-0 in both singles and doubles.
LAST TIME ON THE COURT
The Daemen University women's tennis team closed out the month of September with a 5-2 win over SUNY Fredonia in intercollegiate women's tennis action on Sept. 28 at the Steele Hall Courts. The Wildcats won all three doubles match and at singles, senior
Kitsa Scime (Williamsville, N.Y.) earned her sixth singles win of the season and 44
th of her career with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Bernadette Gens. Playing No. 2 singles for the first time in her Daemen career, freshman
Stephanie Baier (Boise, Idaho) collected a 6-0, 6-0, sweep over Lucy Prevet while Gietmann made her first appearance for the Blue and White since Sept. 10 at Nazareth University and earned her second collegiate singles win with a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 3 singles. Senior
Emily Jablonski (Alden, N.Y.) made her season debut at No. 5 singles and earned her first singles win of the 2024-25 campaign with a 6-3, 6-3, triumph against Sophia Olson.
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.
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.
SCOUTING QUEENS (1-0, 1-0 ECC)
The preseason favorite Knights won their first and only dual match of the season so far, 7-0, against Molloy University on Sept. 21. At the ITA East Regional Tournament earlier this year,
Maja Makal and junior
Regina Ruiz led the Knights in singles action as they both advanced to the Round of 16 in the Singles Tournament.
SERIES HISTORY
The two sides last faced-off in the semifinal round of the 2023 East Coast Conference Women's Tennis Championships with Queens winning, 4-0. The Knights lead the all-time series, 12-0.
SCOUTING ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (1-0, 1-0 ECC)
The defending ECC Tournament champions were tabbed second in the 2024 East Coast Conference Women's Tennis Preseason Coaches' Poll garnering two first-place votes and 31 points. St. Thomas Aquinas defeated Molloy, 7-0, on Sept. 20 in their only dual match that has been played to completion. Their last match against Chestnut Hill College was suspended due to rain on Sept. 28.
SERIES HISTORY
St. Thomas Aquinas leads the all-time series, 13-0, and won the last meeting between the two sides, 6-1, on Oct. 21, 2023.
UP NEXT
The Wildcats return home to face Molloy on Oct. 11. The match is set to begin at 7 p.m. from the Miller Tennis Center.
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