DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle women's tennis team dropped all three doubles points and were not able to bounce back in singles as the Eagles fell to fourth-ranked Lynn 8-1, Saturday at the Crotty Tennis Complex. The loss puts the Eagles at 6-7 overall and 1-4 in the Sunshine State Conference. Lynn improved to 12-2 overall and 4-0 in the league.
Doubles play saw the Fighting Knights take a 2-0 lead courtesy of 28th-ranked Eliska Petrackova and Klaudia Boczova's 8-1 win over
Maria Turrillo and
Kathryn Bock at the top spot, and Diana Bogoli and Anastacia Parkin's 8-1 win over
Lydia Carter and Roberta Krvajica on court three.
The contest at No. 2 doubles lasted one hour and 23 minutes and saw Eleonora Liga and Federica Mordegan hold off Sabrina Ehrenfort and
Georgina Wood 9-7 to give Lynn 3-0 lead heading into singles.
At the No. 3 singles position, Wood went ahead of Mordegan 3-0, before the Lynn freshman retired, giving the Eagles their only point of the day.
Seventh-ranked Boczova bested Turrillo 6-0, 6-1 at No. 1 singles, and Liga clinched the Lynn victory with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Bock at the fifth spot.
The Eagles will host another conference foe, Rollins, in their next match at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.