CMS Defeats Kenyon 5-4 At Home

March 13, 2009 at CMS (Biszantz Family Tennis Center)

CMS women’s tennis netted a 5-4 victory at home against Kenyon College on Friday. The Athenas opened strong, taking second and third doubles to go up 2-1. At #3, Alle Hsu and Caroline Daly paired up to post the first win of the day with an 8-4 win. At #1, Hannah Kornfeld and Jessica Fox saved three match points before dropping the pro-set 8-5.

In singles, Kornfeld and Hsu (#2 and #4, respectively) each won decisively in straight sets, dropping only seven games between the two of them. With these victories, CMS took a commanding 4-2 lead and only needed one more singles victory to clinch the match.

Jessica Fox (#3) battled through a close first set to win 7-5. She went up 5-4 in the second set and was serving for the set and the match, but narrowly lost the set, 5-7. She rallied for the third set, in which she yielded not a single game to clinch the match victory for the Athenas.

The Athenas are looking forward to home matches facing Whitman College on Monday at 11 AM and Amherst College on Tuesday at 11 AM.

Doubles

Prita Kidder/ Alexis Marino (Kenyon) def. Jessica Fox/ Hannah Kornfeld (CMS) 8-5

Elisa La Cava/ Sara Reed (CMS) def. Molly Yost/ Eva Ceja (Kenyon) 8-5

Caroline Daly/ Alle Hsu (CMS) def. Carly Bond/ Julia Diskint (Kenyon) 8-4



Singles

Prita Kidder (Kenyon) def. Elisa La Cava (CMS) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4

Hannah Kornfeld (CMS) def. Alexis Marino (Kenyon) 6-3, 6-0

Jessica Fox (CMS) def. Molly Yost (Kenyon) 7-5, 5-7, 6-0

Eva Ceja (Kenyon) def. Sara Reed (CMS) 6-0, 6-1

Alle Hsu (CMS) def. Julia Diskint (Kenyon) 6-3, 6-1

Anna Becker (Kenyon) def. Meredith Leyendecker (CMS) 7-5, 7-6 (7-0)



CMS: 7-3 Overall, 3-1 SCIAC