VESTAL, N.Y. – For the fourth consecutive year, the Stony Brook Seawolves have advanced to the America East Women’s Tennis Championship, and meeting them tomorrow will be the Albany Great Danes.
The first semifinal match was between the three-time defending America East Champions, top-seeded Stony Brook, and the host No. 4 seed Binghamton. The Seawolves defeated the Bearcats, 4-0, winning the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches to secure the opening point, and then claiming their spot in the title game with wins in the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 5 singles matches.
The leader for Stony Brook was the reigning America East Player of the Year, Polina Movchan. The senior was part of the No. 2 doubles team with freshman Yana Nikolaeva that took care of business, winning in convincing 8-3 fashion over Binghamton’s duo of Agatha Ambrozy and Katherine Medianik.
Movchan would then take on Medianik in the No. 1 singles match, and cruised to a 2-0 win, taking each set six games to one.
Stony Brook advances to the America East Championship game for the fourth straight year; they will be looking to win their fourth consecutive America East title.
In the second semifinal of the day, it came down to an epic singles match. No. 2 seed UMBC and No. 3 seed Albany battled tough, and were tied at three points a piece with the No. 3 singles match left to decide who would be advancing to the America East championship.
After losing the first set 2-6, Albany’s Alba Sala came from behind and bested UMBC’s Adriana Aldunate in three sets to clinch the Great Danes birth. Albany was pulled off the upset by taking the opening doubles point, and then winning the No. 1, No. 5 and the aforementioned No. 3 singles match.
Sala was also part of Albany’s victorious and point-clinching No. 2 doubles team with Cheryl Kukkonen, beating Alice Taylor and Hanna Victorsson of UMBC.
The Great Danes last advanced to the conference championship in 2013, where Stony Brook swept Albany.
In an earlier matchup this season, on April 11th, Stony Brook defeated Albany 7-0 on the campus of the Seawolves.
The battle for the America East title will begin tomorrow at 12:00 P.M.
RESULTS
Semifinal #1: No. 1 Stony Brook 4, No. 4 Binghamton 0
Doubles order of finish: 1,2
Smergut/Badoche, Stony Brook def. Brodsky/Tashiro, Binghamton 8-3
Movchan/Nikolaeva, Stony Brook def. Ambrozy/Medianik, Binghamton 8-3
Vozniak/Tsvetkov, Stony Brook tied DiMuro/Kohtz, Binghamton 6-6 DNF
Singles order of finish: 3,1,5
Movchan, Stony Brook def. Medianik, Binghamton 2-0 (6-1, 6-1)
Vozniak, Stony Brook led Kohtz, Binghamton 7-5, 2-2 DNF
Smergut, Stony Brook def. Tashiro, Binghamton 2-0 (6-0, 6-4)
Osabuohien, Stony Brook led Brodsky, Binghamton 6-3, 5-2 DNF
Tsvetkov, Stony Brook def. DiMuro, Binghamton 2-0 (6-4, 6-1)
Badoche, Stony Brook tied Ambrozy, Binghamton 6-4, 1-6 DNF
Semifinal #2: No. 2 UMBC 3, No. 3 Albany 4
Doubles order of finish: 1,2,3
Dolashvili/Cleary, UMBC def. Scott/Torres, Albany 8-2
Kukkonen/Sala, Albany def. Taylor/Victorsson, UMBC 8-5
Hermans/Ognjenovic, Albany def. Aldunate/Kurasz, UMBC 8-3
Singles order of finish: 5,2,4,6,1,3
Ognjenovic, Albany def. Kurasz, UMBC 2-1 (6-2, 4-6, 6-4)
Dolashvili, UMBC def. Hermans, Albany 2-0 (6-4, 6-2)
Sala, Albany def. Aldunate, UMBC 2-1 (2-6, 7-5, 6-3)
Taylor, UMBC def. Kukkonen, Albany 2-0 (6-3, 6-4)
Torres, Albany def. Victorsson, UMBC 2-0 (6-2, 6-3)
Cleary, UMBC def. Scott, Albany 2-1 (5-7, 6-1, 6-0)