SEWANEE, Tenn. (Feb. 13, 2015) – The No. 21 Sewanee women's tennis team opened the season with a pair of 9-0 wins against Piedmont and Covenant Friday inside the Charlotte Guerry Tennis Center.
The Tigers showed its depth and talent as 14 student-athletes saw action. That included an outstanding and tough performance by Sydney Peterson. Peterson won her No. 5 singles match against Piedmont's Morgan Cowart 6-0, 4-6, 10-7. More impressively, in the second set, Peterson became injured but would not default and quit. Limiting the rest of the match, Peterson finished the match and won.
Additionally in that contest, No. 15 Bronte Goodhue, Annie Veron, Clementina Davila, Kate Johnston, and Mariah Smith all won in straight sets.
The Tigers also swept all three doubles matches. Lindsey Liles and Goodhue earned an 8-1 win at No. 1 while Veron and Taylor Childress did not drop a game with an 8-0 victory at No. 2. Emily Sirbaugh and Ann-Meg Keatley then defeated Piedmont's No. 3 team, 8-4.
In the nightcap against Covenant, Sewanee continued to roll.
Again the Tigers swept the doubles matches. Along with Liles and Goodhue, the Tiger teams of Davila and Christina Merchant and Johnston and Elske Parker all won.
In singles action, Liles, Maggie Crumbliss, Merchant, Childress, Parker, and Connor Thomas all won in straight sets. In fact, Thomas did not drop a single game.
Sewanee 9 – Piedmont 0
1D Liles/ Goodhue def Smith/Cowart 8-1
2D Veron/Crumbliss def Wade/Rivera 8-0
3D Emily Sirbaugh/Ann Meg Keatley def Parrish/Blackwell 8-4
1S Bronte Goodhue def Christian Wade 6-0,6-0
2S Clem Davila def Amanda Blackwell 6-0,6-1
3S Annie Veron def Nicole Parrish 6-0,6-1
4S Kate Johnston def Darden Smith 6-0,6-0
5S Sydney Peterson def Morgan Cowart 6-0,4-6,10-7
6S Mariah Smith def Tatiana Burnett 6-2,6-0
Sewanee 9 - Covenant 0
1D Liles/Goodhue def Rowe/Luger 8-0
2D Davila/Merchant def DeLuca/Geving 8-4
3D Johnston/Parker def Smith/Spielman 8-0
1S Lindsey Liles def Gretchen Rowe 6-0,6-1
2S Maggie Crumbliss def Claire Luger 6-0,6-1
3S Christina Merchant def Annie DeLuca 6-1,6-0
4S Taylor Childress def Gracie Smith 6-0,6-1
5S Elske Parker def Lindsay Geving 6-0,6-3
6S Connor Thomas def Catherine Landis 6-0,6-0
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