Box Score AMHERST, N.Y. — The Daemen University women's tennis team opened ECC play at home with a match against St. Thomas Aquinas on Friday afternoon, falling 5-2 to the Spartans.

After claiming two of the three doubles matches, STAC took a 1-0 lead. The Spartans ultimately secured the match by winning four of the six singles contests, though the Wildcats put up hard-fought battles.

DOUBLES

• Daemen's No. 1 pair of Marley Conover (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and Stephanie Baier (Boise, Idaho) fell 6-0 to Kateryna Kryuchkova and Sun Zhuoxuan.
• Carly Armitage (Rochester, N.Y.) and Bella Bjerkan (Elmhurst, Ill.) also dropped a 6-0 decision to Mar Caneves and Shreethika Vangala at the No. 2 slot.
• The Wildcats' lone doubles win came from Nadja Emmendorfer (Clarence, N.Y.) and Ashley Bonilla (Flushing, N.Y.) by walkover.

SINGLES

• Conover fell 6-0, 6-1 at the No. 1 singles spot, winning the sixth game of the second set.
• At No. 2 singles, Baier fell 6-2, 6-3 to Caneves. Both sets were back and forth until her opponent pulled away to win.
• Bjerkan dropped a 6-3, 6-3 decision to Zhuoxuan at the No. 3 slot. She pulled within one game twice during the second set in a hard-fought battle.
• Armitage was narrowly defeated 6-4, 4-6, 9-11 at the No. 4 singles. She won the first set, then lost a closely contested second, before falling short in the third-set tiebreaker.
• Bonilla (No. 5) and Emmendorfer (No. 6) each won singles matches by walkover.

UP NEXT
The Wildcats are back in action Oct. 3, hosting crosstown rival D'Youville at 4 p.m.
 

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