Competing in their eighth consecutive CACC Women's Tennis Championship Tournament, the Chestnut Hill College Women's Tennis team fell to top seed Queens College in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament Semi-finals 4-1 Saturday morning at the Delcastle Tennis Center in new Castle, Delaware.
With the loss, the Griffins fall to 9-6 on the season while Queens, with the win, improves to 12-1 and advance to Sunday's championship match.
Chestnut Hill started off strong with winning two of the three doubles contests to take an early 1-0 lead. Queens' #2 doubles team earned a 6-0 win before the Griffins came back to win the next two. Lilian Bandel and Elena Arenas Guisasola won their eighth consecutive doubles match, defeating Sixtine Goubet and Lilie Bizouerne 6-2. Fabienne Lahn and Tia Kaukenas fought off a strong challenge from Elise Bosmans and Anishka Amalnathan at #3 doubles, winning the contest in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (11-9).
Queens however took control in the singles contests, winning at #1, #2 and #4 singles before Bizouerne clinched the match with a tiebreaker win over Veronika Lundgren 6-0, 7-6 (7-5).
The women's tennis team will have one additional fall match on October 23 when they host Assumption University.
