Box Score GENEVA, N.Y. – First-year
Samantha Jacobs took top honors in the "B" Singles bracket to complete a personal 7-1 weekend and lead the Union College women's tennis team at the season-opening Mary Hosking Invitational, hosted by William Smith College on Saturday and Sunday.
It was a very successful opening weekend for the Garnet Chargers, earning six semifinal berths and three finals spots in the four singles and two doubles brackets.
Jacobs finished her run through the "B" Singles draw with two more impressive wins on Sunday to take the title. She knocked off RPI's Gauri Muliyil by an 8-4 score in the semifinal round, and then came back to outlast another Engineer, Victoria Sarabosing, in an 8-6 victory.
Jacobs also made the finals in the "B" Doubles bracket alongside junior
Sydney Alphabet, beating RPI's Anushka Jaiswal and Taylor Chandler by an 8-4 score. The pair could not complete the 4-0 weekend, however, coming up just short to RPI's Neha Saraswatula and Kaaviya Kannan, 8-6.
The "D" Singles Bracket got underway on Sunday and first-year
Calista Finkelstein made an immediate impression, winning her first three sets to reach the finals. She started off with a 6-2 win over RIT's Devon Mills, followed by a 6-1 defeat of Ithaca's Eliana Chelnick. She won her third in a row by knocking off Saraswatula, 7-5, but came up just short of a title, however, falling 6-3 to RPI's Taylor Chandler. Despite losing her first match to Chandler, junior
Kennedy Alexis came back to win the "D" Singles consolation bracket on Sunday as well.
In other action, junior
Claire Langille was taken down in the "C" Singles semifinals, dropping an 8-4 score to RPI's Anushka Jaiswal, but came back to win the third-place match. Junior
Chara Meidani and sophomore
Luisa Arizpe-Sierra took third in the "A" Doubles bracket after dropping an 8-5 score to RIT's Kira Kronenberg and Emily Greb in the semifinals.
Union will return home next weekend to host the annual Union Invitational, held on Saturday and Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. each day at the Union Tennis Courts.
