CANTON, N.Y. – The Union College women's tennis team won all six flights of singles play to race past St. Lawrence University and remain unbeaten in the Liberty League with a 6-1 victory over the Saints on Saturday afternoon at the Sammis Tennis Courts.
 
The fifth straight win keeps Union (10-3, 4-0 Liberty League) tied atop the conference standings with four conference matches remaining and moves the team to seven matches over .500 for the first time since 1998. The win is also Union's first in the North Country since 2001, breaking a string of 12 straight defeats.
 
The day did not start well for the visitors, as Union could not close out a pair of doubles matches and ended up getting swept in doubles play to give St. Lawrence (15-3, 3-3 Liberty League) the opening point. But Union responded in the best way possible, sweeping all six singles matches to emphatically earn the win.
 
Junior Sydney Alphabet started the singles run with a pair of 6-2 sets to defeat Ellie Fritz at the fifth flight, and first-year Calista Finkelstein followed soon after by finishing off a 6-1, 6-4 sixth-singles win over Maya Stepic. Junior Skylar Semon moved the visitors to within a point of victory by taking down Yvette Karera by a 6-2, 6-3 score in second-singles action.
 
Sophomore Luisa Arizpe-Sierra provided the clinching point for the Garnet Chargers by outlasting Ellie McDermed by a 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) score at the fourth flight. Junior Chara Meidani added to the win total at the top flight with a 7-6 (8-6), 6-2 win over Angelica Aksdal-Jansen, and first-year Samantha Jacobs finished off the single sweep by battling for a 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-7) win over Elisa Iuri at the third flight.
 
Union will return to action on Wednesday with a 4 p.m. matchup against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at the Union Tennis Courts.