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BRONXVILLE, N.Y.—Sarah Lawrence College women's tennis swept Skyline opponent St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, 9-0, at Andrews Courts on Sunday. The win gives the Gryphons a three-match winning streak, their second of the season.

IN SHORT
Sarah Lawrence College (8-2, 4-1 Skyline) def. St. Joseph's (2-7, 0-5 Skyline), 9-0.

EDGE OF GLORY
With two matches left in the regular season, Sarah Lawrence is on the verge of earning the College's first-ever Skyline postseason berth. In the school's first year of postseason eligibility, SLC needs one more victory or a loss by both Purchase College and Mount Saint Mary College to seal a spot in the league semifinals.

PERFECT START
Sarah Lawrence won all three doubles matches, but a pair of Gryphon tandems escaped flawlessly. At No. 2 doubles, senior Autumn Atkinson (Manasquan, N.J./George School) and junior Juliet Slade (St. Paul, Minn./Central) won their 32nd match together, 8-0. In the No. 3 match, seniors Sarah Fiordaliso (Buffalo, N.Y./Sweet Home) and Lane Garber (Los Altos, Calif./Los Altos) were triumphant, 8-0. Fiordaliso and Garber became the second doubles team (after Atkinson and Slade in 2013) to begin a season 10-0.

FROM THE RECORD BOOK
Fiordaliso and Garber broke into the record book as the third doubles pair in program history (since 1989) to win 10 doubles matches in a season. Atkinson and Slade were 15-0 as a team in 2013, and in '05, Georgia Bendat and Fran Hartmann finished 10-1 as a pair.

MEANWHILE…
Back in the present, senior Nora Landes (Los Angeles, Calif./Cleveland Humanities Magnet) and sophomore Sofia Reh (Villanova, Pa./Radnor) needed a little more time to win the No. 1 doubles match. After falling behind early, the Gryphons pulled out an 8-6 victory.

SINGLES SWEPT
In singles play, junior Moni Spancheska (Skopje, Macedonia/NOVA International) won the Gryphons' first individual point with a 6-0, 6-0 rout of her No. 6 singles opponent. Garber followed close behind, winning the No. 5 match by an identical 6-0, 6-0 margin. Garber improved to 2-0 in singles play this season, and her win clinched the team victory for Sarah Lawrence.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
Slade earned her third straight win at the No. 4 singles position. Playing a pro-set format, the junior ran away with the match 8-0. Reh also swept her opponent, winning the No. 3 match, 8-0, for her second shutout win of the season.

WINNING THE HARD WAY
The Lady Bears had strong competitors at the top of the lineup. In the No. 2 singles match, Atkinson had trouble pulling away but won the last three games of her 8-4 win. The final match on the courts was the No. 1 singles match in which Landes went to a tiebreaker at 7-7. The match was the senior Gryphon's third-straight with a tiebreaker, and she calmly put away her opponent 8-7 (7-2).

UP NEXT
In the Gryphons' penultimate match, Sarah Lawrence travels to play Yeshiva University at Queens College on Wednesday. SLC returns home for its regular-season finale against St. Joseph's College Long Island on Saturday at 1 p.m.