SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College women's tennis team earned its program-record fourth Liberty League victory of the season with a 7-2 win over St. Lawrence University on Friday afternoon at the Union Tennis Courts.
 
With its third conference win in four spring matches, Union (7-5, 4-2 Liberty League) moves into third place in the Liberty League standings with two matches remaining in the regular season. The win also assures the team of at least a .500 record in conference play, which hasn't happened since finishing 2-2 in an unbalanced conference ledger during the 2013-14 campaign.
 
Junior Gracie Nicol and first-years Claire Langille and Skylar Semon were all double winners for Union on the day, as Union took two-of-three doubles matches and five-of-six singles contests in the victory.
 
Langille and Semon continued their winning ways at third doubles, improving to 9-3 on the season with a hard-fought 8-6 win over Angelica Aksdal-Jansen and Elena Styliades. Senior Marilena Karadimou and junior Gracie Nicol also earned a win at the first flight, as the pair were leading Catherine Gamble and Molly Jespersen by a 6-2 score before the SLU tandem was forced to retire due to injury.
 
Union continued to play well in singles play, winning all five matches that were played to completion. Langille was one of the last on the court but one of the first to finish, as she made quick work of Meredith Macey in a 6-3, 6-0 fifth-singles win. Sophomore Gabby Gatto moved Union closer to victory with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Emily Harris at fourth singles.
 
Nicol clinched the victory with a hard-fought 7-6 (7-1), 6-4 second-singles win over Caitlyn Avery, coming back from 5-2 down in the first set to win in a tiebreaker before jumping out to an early lead in the second set. First-year Chara Meidani also needed a comeback to pull out her sixth straight win at third-singles over Aksdal-Jansen, as she trailed 5-0 in the first-set tiebreaker before rattling off seven straight points to win and then taking six of the next seven games of her 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 triumph.
 
Semon finished off the victory in a supertiebreaker, posting a 10-8 win after splitting the first two sets with Maya Stepic, 6-2, 4-6.
 
Union will be back on the court tomorrow, when the team heads to Rochester Institute of Technology for a conference clash beginning at 1 p.m.