SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College women's tennis team picked up the first five points of the afternoon to defeat William Smith College by a 5-2 score in Liberty League action on a blustery Saturday afternoon at the Union Tennis Courts.
 
Seniors Kennedy Alexis and Claire Langille earned a pair of wins each to pace Union (4-9, 2-2 Liberty League) in the key conference win, as six players picked up at least one win on the day for the Garnet Chargers.
 
Union earned the doubles point in relatively quick fashion thanks to wins at the top-two flights. The two matches finished within seconds of each other, as Alexis and classmate Chara Meidani earned a 6-3 first-doubles win over Haley Levine and Grace Magna, and Langille teamed with classmate Skylar Semon to defeat Mae Kellersman and Bethany Walker by a 6-3 score at the second flight.
 
The Garnet Chargers clinched the match with a trio of straight-set wins at the bottom three flights. Alexis finished her 2-0 day with a pair of 6-2 sets to defeat Kaitlyn Hardy at the sixth flight, followed soon after by first-year Megan McCusker's 6-1, 6-2 fifth-singles triumph over Mia Jacobs. Senior Sydney Alphabet clinched the win by defeating Walker, 6-1, 6-4, in fourth-singles action.
 
Langille added an extra point to the ledger for Union by outlasting Magna in a third-set supertiebreaker, coming from a set down for a 3-6, 6-3, (10-6) victory.  Union came two supertribreakers short of a sweep, but Semon and Meidani lost by the scores of 10-6 and 10-5 at the top-two flights.
 
Union will look to keep the momentum going tomorrow, when the Garnet Chargers take on Rochester Institute of Technology in a 2 p.m. match at the Union Tennis Courts.