The women’s tennis team, which opened its spring season playing seven games over the break in California, had its first home game this weekend, beating Connecticut College 9-0, before losing at Amherst 7-2.
Bowdoin swept all nine matches against Connecticut. The No. 2 doubles team of Emma Lewis ’14 and captain Kellen Alberstone ’13 had an 8-0 shutout to clinch the victory. The No. 1 doubles team of Emma Chow ’15 and Chantalle Levartu ’13 only dropped one game to its opponents, winning the set 8-1. Tiffany Cheng ’16 and Kate Winningham ’14 had an equally dominant performance at No. 3, only losing two games to their counterparts to seal the doubles sweep.
In singles, neither Susanna Howard ’14 (No. 5) nor Chow (No. 6) lost a game to their opponents, and no Polar Bear dropped more than three games to a Conn. College player.
The team was undefeated until it faced Amherst, who spoiled its seven-game win streak with a 7-2 final score. Bowdoin lost all of its doubles sets, although the No. 1 and No. 3 squads fought to closely-contested losses of 8-5 and 8-6, respectively. In the singles matches, Cheng won a tiebreaker at No. 3 to earn a point for the team. Winingham earned the other point at No. 4, just barely winning the first set 7-6 before sealing the deal with a dominant 6-2 second set score.
This weekend, the 8-1 Polar Bears travel to Williamstown, Mass., to face D-III’s No. 5-ranked Williams tomorrow and No. 3 Emory on Sunday. Bowdoin was ranked No. 8 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll on March 28.