Women's Tennis Tops Western New England, 8-1

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The Endicott women's tennis team continued its winning ways on Wednesday with an 8-1 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) victory over Western New England. With today's win, the Gulls moved their winning streak to seven straight matches and their overall record to 8-1.

Endicott swept doubles action in quick fashion behind victories from Maxine Bergstein (Hingham, Mass.) and Gretta Hartman (Glastonbury, Conn.) at No. 1 (8-2), and identical 8-1 wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 flights by Reilly Fitzgibbons (Killingworth, Conn.)/Hayley Barnett (Marlboro, N.J.) and Lauren Rahr (Waterford, Conn.)/Alexandra Barmore (Southington, Conn.), respectively.

In singles, the Gulls then earned a 6-1, 6-1 triumph at No. 1 by Barnett and a 6-2, 6-0 win at No. 5 to clinch the match.

TOP QUOTE

"Nice effort today on a brutally hot afternoon," said Endicott women's tennis head coach Jeremy Howard." It's always nice to win on back-to-back days. We're now looking forward to finishing up the CCC schedule on Saturday at home versus Curry."

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• Cameron Foley (Lynnfield, Mass.) is now 3-0 on the year in singles.
• Gillian Freter (Scituate, Mass.) remained undefeated in singles play at 9-0, but today's 6-1, 6-1 victory was her first at the No. 3 singles position all year.
• Bergstein's doubles win helped her join of a group of only eight Endicott women's tennis student-athletes all-time to eclipse the 40-win plateau. 
• Endicott's seven-match win streak is two wins shy of tying their longest streak of the 2016 season.

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott (8-1, 6-1 CCC) hosts Curry this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Western New England, now 2-5 (1-4 CCC) this season, will travel to Salve Regina on Saturday for a 12:00 PM start.