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Kayla Pincus and Nora Landes

Women's Tennis

Women's Tennis Takes Down St. Joseph's

Match Results

BRONXVILLE, N.Y.—In the team's final league match of the season, Sarah Lawrence College women's tennis defeated ST. Joseph's College Brooklyn, 8-1, in a Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match at Andrews Tennis Courts on Monday.

With the win, the Gryphons clinch a runner-up finish in the HVIAC regular-season standings, having lost only to currently-undefeated Pratt Institute.

Sarah Lawrence (6-7, 3-1 HVIAC) jumped out to an early lead, winning two of three matches. Rookies Autumn Atkinson (Manasquan, N.J./George School) and Juliet Slade (St. Paul, Minn./Central) improved to 12-0 on the season with an 8-1 win in the No. 3 match. At No. 1 doubles, Nora Landes (Los Angeles, Calif./Cleveland Humanities Magnet) and Kayla Pincus (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Shaker Heights) won their first five games en route to an 8-2 win.

St. Joseph's (0-7, 0-2 HVIAC) earned its only point of the match in the No. 2 doubles match, as Kelly McNamee and Samantha Rossi knocked off their Gryphon opponents.

With SLC in front, 2-1, the Green and White took full control of the singles matches. Landes made quick work of the No. 1 match, winning 10-0. At No. 2 singles, Pincus yielded only one game in her 10-1 victory.

Rookie Sarah Pyatt (Taos, N.M./Taos) picked up her first individual shutout win, taking the No. 3 match by a 10-0 margin. Atkinson remained perfect in league play by taking the No. 3 match, 10-2.

At No. 6 singles, Moni Spancheska (Skopje, Macedonia/NOVA International) won the first three games and scored two more break points as she took her match, 10-4. In the last match on the courts, senior Cecilia Ross (Brick, N.J./Brick Memorial) dug out of a 6-3 deficit and won seven straight games in her 10-6 win to seal the 8-1 team victory.

Sarah Lawrence hosts Purchase College on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Andrews Courts. The Gryphons then play their regular-season finale against Yeshiva University on Wednesday, Oct. 23, before proceeding to the 2013 HVIAC Championships on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.