A double default set up a strange chain of events on Thursday as the Chestnut Hill College Women's Tennis team dropped a hard fought match to Wilmington University at the Delcastle Tennis Center.

The Griffins fall to 3-4 overall and 2-4 in Central Atlantic collegiate Conference play.  Wilmington improves to 5-1 in league play as well as overall.

Chestnut Hill entered the contest with only five players thus would default at #6 singles.  However when it came time for singles play. Wilmington also defaulted at #6 which altered the match scoring and invoked the rule in Sect. 1  D.9.c for scoring 5 v. 5.

In this rule  five singles  matches, and two doubles matches are played with each doubles match counting as a point and each single match that followed counted as a point.

Wilmington  thus jumped out to a 2-0 lead having won both doubles contests.  Elena Arenas Guisalsola and Milica Zagorac lost to WU's Molly Carlberg and Ming-Fu Chen 6-3  at #1 doubles, and Claudia Rasilla Romero and Lilian Bandel lost to Siana McDonald and Ines Oliveira 6-1 at #2 doubles.

In singles play the Griffins came back to tie the score at 2-2 as Zagorac defeated Liza Sylka 6-3, 6-0 at #2 singles and Bandel defeated Oliveira 6-0, 6-4 at #5 singles.    

The Wildcats then won at #1 singles with Carlberg defeating Arenas Guisasola 6-1, 6-4  and Gloria Bacaro defeating Veronika Lundgren 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 at #4 singles to clinch the match for the hosts.   Rasilla Romero came back from a set down to win #3 singles over Elena Camacho 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 for the Griffins' final point.

The women's tennis team returns to action on Monday, October 6, 2025 when they travel to face Dominican University in Orangeburg, New York.  First serve is at 3 p.m.