Brooklyn, NY----The Brooklyn College women's tennis team dropped a heartbreaker in conference play on Thursday as the Bulldogs fell to Lehman College, 4-3, at home. BC moves to 3-7 overall (0-2 CUNYAC) with the loss while the Lightning improves to 3-8 (2-3 CUNYAC). Next Up: Brooklyn will be right back at it on Friday at home against Hunter College for another conference clash at 3pm.
The Bulldogs captured two singles victories and the doubles point, highlighted by strong performances from Aniyah James and Medina Kuc.
Brooklyn opened doubles play with a convincing 6-2 victory at No. 1, as Kuc and Alexis Goodman defeated Gabriela Vargas and Amya Sanchez. The Bulldogs also earned a hard-fought win at No. 2 doubles, where James and Amara Stewart edged Elizabeth Nlemchukwu and Fernanda Navarrete, 7-6, winning the tiebreaker, 8-6. Lehman secured the No. 3 doubles match to take one point from doubles play.
In singles action, James delivered a strong performance at the No. 2 position, overcoming Sanchez in a three-set battle. After dropping the opening set, 6-7, James responded by taking the second set, 6-3, before closing out the match with a 7-0 victory in the deciding-set tiebreaker.
Kuc added another point for the Bulldogs at No. 3 singles, defeating Nlemchukwu in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3.
Lehman claimed victories at the remaining singles positions to secure the narrow team win. At No. 1 singles, Goodman took the opening set, 6-1, against Vargas before the Lehman rallied to win the next two sets, 6-1, 6-2. Stewart also pushed Santiago-Montes to three sets at No. 4 singles before falling in a deciding-set tiebreaker.
At No. 5 singles, Amar Abdel Gaphar fell to Navarrete, 6-4, 6-1, while Kristen Vega dropped a three-set contest to Ndiaye at No. 6, 6-0, 2-6, 4-6.
