HOUGHTON, N.Y. - The Cortland women's tennis team lost a 4-3 non-league decision to Alfred University in a match played indoors at Houghton College.
Cortland (5-5) will travel to Fredonia Saturday at 12:30 p.m. for a SUNYAC contest.
Alfred earned the team doubles point with three very close victories. Allison Windisch and Alexis Gits opened with a 6-4 win at third doubles over
Anneli Adams (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) and
Emma Morley (Buchanan/Hendrick Hudson). Alyssa Seegert and Becca Epping won 6-4 at first doubles over
Christina Massoni (West Babylon) and
Gabriella Stanley (Buffalo/Niagara-Wheatfield) to clinch the team point, and Elizabeth Madsen and Camryn Moore won 7-6 (7-2) over
Reaghan Hughes (Binghamton/Chenango Forks) and
Alexandra Thut (Poughquag/Arlington) at second doubles.
Gracie Guiliano (Rome/Notre Dame) got Cortland on the board with a 6-3, 6-2 win at sixth singles. Madsen defeated Hughes at third singles, 6-0, 6-3, and Epping gave the Saxons a 3-1 lead with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Stanley at second singles.
Massoni posted a 6-3, 6-2 win at first singles to close Cortland's deficit to 3-2, but the Saxons clinched the victory with Gits' 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win over Adams at fourth singles. Morley picked Cortland's final point by rallying to defeat Moore at fifth singles. Morley lost the first set, 7-5, but won the second set, 6-1, as well as a super tiebreaker to 10 points in place of the third set, 10-5.
