Coming off back-to-back wins, the Binghamton women’s tennis team sandwiched its third victory of the season, a 4-3 win over Pittsburgh, in between 7-0 losses to Syracuse and Brown this weekend.
The Bearcats (3-5) opened the weekend at Syracuse on Friday, getting swept 7-0 by the Orange (4-0). Syracuse took all nine matches from the Bearcats, who failed to push a single match to three sets. The Orange have now won four straight.
Binghamton quickly recovered on Saturday, gritting out a 4-3 win over Pittsburgh (3-4) in Syracuse. The Bearcats opened play by grabbing the doubles point on wins from the duos of freshman Agatha Ambrozy and sophomore Katherine Medianik, and freshmen Shea Brodsky and Alexis Tashiro.
Medianik fell in the opening round of singles play to allow the Panthers to even the score, but freshman Sara Kohtz and Tashiro responded with back-to-back wins in their singles matches. While Kohtz’s victory came in straight sets, Tashiro bounced back from a 6-1 opening loss to take the next two sets in dominant fashion, 6-1 and 6-2. Pitt would even the score again, but Ambrozy picked up a 6-3 win in the third set to nail down the win. In a tight contest, the Bearcats saw three of their singles matches stretch to three sets.
On Sunday, the Bearcats headed to Brown (2-2), where they suffered their second sweep of the weekend. Binghamton started freshmen in its top four singles spots and again dropped all nine matches against the No. 68 Bears. For the second time that weekend, the Bearcats failed to push any of their matches into a third set.
Binghamton is set to return to action at the University Tennis Center against Buffalo at 1 p.m. on Feb. 24.