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Match Recap: Women's Tennis | | CONTACT: Tom McDermott, Director of Athletics Communications | tmcdermo@daemen.edu

Women's Tennis Falls To Division I Colgate In 2023-24 Finale

HAMILTON, N.Y. - The Daemen University women's tennis team closed out its 2023-24 season with a 7-0 loss to Colgate University this afternoon at the J.W. Abrahamson Courts on the Colgate campus. The Wildcats closed out the year with a record of 7-12. Colgate, a NCAA Division I member of the Patriot League, improved to 11-9.

The match was played under NCAA Division I/II scoring rules and the Colgate claimed the doubles point after winning all three matches. Daemen's No. 1 singles team of senior Frida Rubio (San Diego, Calif.) and junior Kitsa Scime (Williamsville, N.Y.) suffered a 6-3 loss to freshman Sophia Montero and sophomore Amelia Galin.

Colgate also swept the six singles matches. The host Raiders took a 2-0 lead after freshman Gigi Bohan defeated junior Yinett Del Leon (Cape Coral, Fla.) at No. 3 singles. Colgate then earned the win after Rubio suffered a 6-1, 6-3 setback to freshman Carina Cristobal at No. 1 singles and junior Addie Ecklund defeated Scime at No. 2 singles, 6-1, 6-0. Daemen sophomore Carley Armitage (Rochester, N.Y.) battled sophomore Sasha Herman at No. 4 singles, with Herman posting a 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) victory.

MATCH NOTES
  • The match marked the second all-time meeting between the two schools. Colgate also posted a 7-0 win over the Wildcats during the 2021-22 season.
     
  • Scime closed out the year with a 15-7 singles record. It marks the second-straight year she has posted 15 singles wins, which ranks as the second most in a season in program history. Christina Stasiuk posted a program-record 18 wins during the 2017-18 season.
     
  • Scime ranks fifth among Daemen's all-time leaders in career singles wins (38) and is now 33-14 in her last 47 singles matches dating back to the end of her freshman season. She also ranks fifth in career combined singles and doubles wins with 65.
     
  • Rubio went 7-15 in singles play this year and ranks sixth in career singles wins (31) among Daemen's all-time leaders. She also ranks sixth in career combined singles and doubles wins with 65.
     
  • Del Leon posted eight singles wins (8-14) for the second straight year and ranks ninth in career singles wins (20). Armitage posted seven singles wins (7-10) for the second straight year.

    DOUBLES RESULTS
    #1 – Sophia Montero & Amelia Galin (COL) defeat Frida Rubio & Kitsa Scime (DAE),  6-3
    #2 – Carina Cristobal & Gigi Bohan (COL) defeat Yinett Del Leon & Carly Armitage (DAE), 6-0
    #3 – Eliza Podlas & Avery Isaac (COL) defeat Emily Jablonski & Dania Mehani (DAE), 6-0

    Order of finish: 3,2,1

    SINGLES RESULTS
    #1 – Cristobal defeates Rubio, 6-1, 6-3
    #2 – Addie Ecklund (COL) defeats Scime, 6-1, 6-0
    #3 – Bohan defeats Del Leon, 6-1, 6-1
    #4 – Sasha Herman (COL) defeats Armitage, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3)
    #5 – Paige Rothwell (COL) defeats Jablonski, 8-0
    #6 – Eliza Podlas (COL) defeats Mehani, 8-0

    Order of finish: 3,1,2,4,5,6
 

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