Women's Tennis Falls at Fredonia

The Penn State Behrend women's tennis team dropped their first match of the season, falling to non-conference foe Fredonia 8-1 on Wednesday afternoon.

Team Stats

Penn State Behrend

Fredonia

Score

Doubles

Celeste Bentley / Kelly Miller def. Anna Chiacchia / Olivia Miller 8-3
Sarah Bunk / Adriana Speach def. Marissa Bowles / Bayleigh Adams 8-6
Chloe Karnisky / Mallory Mecca def. Kayla Canfield / Montana Murphy 8-0

Singles

Anna Chiacchia def. Marissa Bowles 6-4 , 4-6 , 10-7
Olivia Miller def. Kelly Miller 6-4 , 4-6 , 10-6
Sarah Bunk def. Celeste Bentley 4-6 , 6-2 , 10-5
Chloe Karnisky def. Bayleigh Adams 6-0 , 6-0
Adriana Speach def. Vanessa Galatic 6-4 , 6-0
Avril King def. Kayla Canfield 6-0 , 6-0

September 6, 2017

FREDONIA, NY - The Penn State Behrend women's tennis team dropped their first match of the season, falling to non-conference foe Fredonia 8-1 on Wednesday afternoon.

The Blue Devils won all six singles and a pair of doubles matches to hand the Lions (2-1) their first loss.

Kelly Miller (Louisville, OH/Louisville) and Celeste Bentley (Harborcreek, PA/Harbor Creek) kept their doubles record unblemished with an 8-3 victory at the No. 1 spot. Bentley and freshman Marissa Bowles (South Orange, NJ/Columbia) took their singles opponents to a tiebreaker set at No. 3 and No. 1, respectively. Bowles won the first set 6-3 adn then fell 6-4 (10-7), while Bentley fell 6-4 and then evened the match with a 6-2 win before falling 10-5.

Behrend returns to action on Friday against Pitt-Bradford. Match begins at 4 p.m.