Box Score | Elkins Park, Pa. - (9/22/2015) – The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) season opened today for the Chestnut Hill College women's tennis team, who traveled crosstown to Fossler's Cheltenham Tennis Center for an afternoon match with Holy Family University. Now under the direction of former Chestnut Hill College assistant coach, Andrew Silverman, the Tigers were only able to secure the top doubles match, leaving the Griffins to an 8-1 victory.
Chestnut Hill College (2-0, 1-0) owned a 2-0 lead with senior captain
Iman Williams-Mulesa (Pickering, Ontario) and sophomore
Lara Scholtze (Bod Homburg, Germany) earning an 8-0 win at number two doubles and senior
Hayley Craskey (Aston, Pa.) and freshman
Julia Bellon (Indaiatuba, Brazil) teaming for a win by the same final, 8-0, at number three doubles. Holy Family University (3-3, 1-2) closed the doubles margin to 2-1, picking up their lone point of the match at number one doubles, where juniors Emerald Adams (White Plains, Md.) and Anastasiya Kolodiy (Lviv, Ukraine) got revenge on junior
Laure-Anne Josso (Vannes, France) and senior
Axé Owens (Trenton, N.J.) for an 8-1 opening-round loss at this past weekend's Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Regionals with an 8-4 win.
Singles separated the conference rivals as the Griffins cemented their CACC triumph with a clean sweep. At number one singles, Josso defeated Kolodiy, 6-0, 6-1. Scholtze earned a 6-4, 6-0, win over Adams in the second individual flight while Williams-Mulesa advanced her career win total to within one of the 100-win milestone by topping senior Alina Nersesyan (Yaroslavi, Russia), 6-0, 6-0. Fellow seniors, Owens and Craskey respectively won number four singles, 6-3, 6-2, and number five singles, 6-0, 6-0, as freshman
Daniela Siqueira (CHCW) claimed number six singles, 6-0, 6-0.
Williams-Mulesa will have her first two shots at history tomorrow, Wednesday, September 23, when the Chestnut Hill College women's tennis team welcomes Caldwell University to campus for a 2:00 p.m. match.
