GAMBIER, Ohio -- Not since April of 1997 has the Kenyon College women's tennis team lost to The College of Wooster. Thursday, inside the Jasper Tennis Center, that trend continued as the host Owls defeated the Fighting Scots, 7-0, and ran their streak in the all-time series to 32 consecutive wins.
Within a half hour of the start of Thursday's conference contest, No. 14-ranked Kenyon dealt Wooster three losses in doubles play. The No. 3 pairing of Sophia Carling and Bridgette Kelly tallied the first Kenyon win, 6-1. That score was duplicated at No. 1, where Eleni Lazaridou and Hana Nouaime were victorious. At No. 2, Shadia Amado Aguad and Kiara Komlodi rolled to a 6-2 win.
With the doubles team point in hand, the Owls switched gears to singles matches. Kelly, playing at No. 4, was the first to tack on another point to the Kenyon team total. She handled Wooster's Jane Adkins, 6-1, 6-0. A few minutes later, Nouaime concluded her match at No. 3 with the same winning score. She did so against Elyse Errington.
After that, a couple of Kenyon 6-2, 6-0 wins were chalked up. At No. 2, it was Komlodi over Sasha Riley, and at No. 1, it was Lazaridou over Elizabeth Meiners.
Putting a bow on the Owls' victory were Elizabeth Ackermann and Madeline Chappars. Ackermann posted a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 5 singles, while Chappars rang up a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 6, keeping her personal season record perfect at 9-0.
The team win moved Kenyon's overall record to 15-5 and its North Coast Athletic Conference record to 7-0, which sealed the Owls' fourth consecutive regular-season conference crown. On the other side of the net, Wooster fell to 6-11 overall and 1-5 in NCAC action.
Kenyon has one more regular season match left against No. 7-ranked Carnegie Mellon University and then the Owls will utilize home-court advantage throughout the NCAC Tournament, which gets underway Friday, May 1.
