SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y / ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Skidmore College women's tennis team completed its unbeaten weekend with a pair of 9-0 victories on Sunday. The Thoroughbreds beat visiting RIT in the morning before heading on the road and defeating Bard later in the day.
- Skidmore, ranked 42nd nationally, improves to 7-3 on the year and a perfect 5-0 in the Liberty League with three conference matches remaining.
- Skidmore went 3-0 over the weekend with victories in each of the 27 matches contested.
- After standing up to an RIT test in the morning, the Thoroughbreds dropped just one game in the entirety of the afternoon match at Bard.
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Skidmore 9, RIT 0
- Konika Dhull and Grace Truong needed a tiebreak to get through Kronenber/Clinard in the No. 1 doubles match.
- Both the teams of Beilynn Geiss / Katherine Almquist and Ella Provost / Katie Wong played to 8-1 wins.
- Dhull's resilient morning match features a comeback 4-6, 7-4, 10-3 victory in the first singles match. It was the only contest that went the distance.
- Â Both Truong and Wong got straight-set sweeps without dropping a game.
- The rest of the singles players (Provost, Almquist, Geiss) each dropped just two games in their wins.
- Skidmore has not lost to RIT (14-0) since the Tigers joined the Liberty League ahead of the 2013 season.
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Skidmore 9, Bard 0
- Another streak continued as Skidmore won its 13th straight over Bard since the Raptors came into the Liberty League in 2011. Additionally, Skidmore has never dropped a single match against Bard.
- Bard claimed just one game victory in No. 1 singles. The rest were straight sweeps.
- Provost and Truong teamed up at first doubles. Wong and Katelyn Corpuz were together at No. 2, and Coco Prokop and Geiss won via withdrawal at No. 3.
- Prokop later made her dual-season debut in the No. 6 match in singles.
- Corpuz joined the lineup in the fifth match along with Truong (No. 1), Wong (No. 2), Provost (No. 3), and Geiss (No. 4).
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From head coach
Curt Speerschneider: "Good weekend. Our goal was to stay focused and keep to the level that we wanted in all of these matches, which showed in us sweeping all three. The team also did a good job staying engaged physically and mentally, which is always a challenge when playing that many matches in a short amount of time. We need to keep that focus going into these next few weeks with some big matches coming up"
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NEXT UP: Skidmore will step away from the Liberty League for the final time of the regular season next week with matches on the road at Brandeis (April 13) and Wellesley (April 14).
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