CMS Women's Tennis Opens ITA Indoors with 6-3 Win over Case Western

Nicholasville, Ky. - Sena Selby earned wins in both singles and doubles as the top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned a 6-3 win over No. 12 Case Western on Friday in the quarterfinals of the ITA Indoor Championships at Sewanee.

With the win, CMS improves to 3-0 and moves on to tomorrow's semifinals, when it will face fourth-seeded MIT at 11 a.m. (Pacific). Case Western seeded eighth at the tournament and ranked No. 12 in the nation, falls to 7-1 with its first loss. 

The Athenas led 2-1 after doubles, with Selby and Katherine Wurster picking up the first point 8-2 at No. 3, and Olivia Almy and Audrey Yoon adding an 8-4 win at No. 2 to break a 1-1 tie. 

Selby then gave CMS a 3-1 lead by taking the first point in singles, winning 6-2, 6-2 at No. 4. After Case Western won at No. 1 to close to within 3-2, Ella Brissett won a 6-3, 6-1 decision at No. 3 to put the Athenas on the brink of a clinch. Lindsay Eisenman was then able to close it out with a dominant second set, taking a 7-6 (7-1), 6-0 decision at No. 6.

Nikolina Batoshvili added a sixth point for CMS by winning 6-4, 6-2 at No. 5, before Case Western was able to salvage the last point with a third-set tiebreaker at No. 2. 

The Athenas will be back in action tomorrow against an MIT team that it defeated last year in the NCAA Quarterfinals.