SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College women's tennis team started Liberty League play with a tidy 7-0 sweep of Bard College on a sunny Wednesday afternoon at the Union Tennis Courts.
 
Six different players had at least one win on the day for Union (1-0, 1-0 Liberty League), led by senior Paige Tromblee and first-year Scarlet Carrara with two wins apiece. Union won three of its matches in walkovers, leaving the team to win four flights of singles and two doubles matches to complete the sweep.
 
Tromblee started her day alongside first-year Samantha Jacobs at first doubles, losing only eight points to Paige Houghton and Lisa Kyrtoka in a quick 6-0 victory. At second doubles, Carrara and classmate Calista Finkelstein also conceded only eight points in a 6-0 win over Jesse Radzik and Malaya Zabala-Cornejo to clinch the doubles point for the Garnet Chargers.
 
Union's four singles entries combined to lose only three games in clinching the victory. Junior Skylar Semon averaged fewer than one point lost per game in a 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Houghton at the top flight, while classmate Claire Langille secured the decisive fifth point with a 6-0, 6-2 win at second singles over Zabala-Cornejo.
 
Tromblee and Carrara closed out the match with convincing wins at third and fourth singles, respectively. Tromblee completed her perfect day with a pair of 6-0 sets to beat Radzik, followed by Carrara dropping only one game to Kyrtoka in a 6-1, 6-0 victory.
 
Union will remain in the Capital Region this weekend, taking part in the Battle of the Northway at Skidmore College on Saturday and Sunday.