The women's tennis team lost the battle of first place to Hunter College by the score of 8-1 in a conference match played on Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. National Tennis Center in Queens.

Hunter (9-0, 4-0 CUNYAC) won all three doubles and five of six singles for their ninth consecutive victory.

The lone Baruch (4-3, 3-1 CUNYAC) win was in the # 2 singles, as Kateryna Pylypyshyna (Odessa, Ukraine/H.S. # 90) defeated Monica Calungcagin (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Nyack) by the scores of 6-4, 6-3.

Baruch will return to action this Friday with a home conference match against CCNY. First serve is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at the York College tennis courts.

DOUBLES

# 1 Evgeniya Kim & Antigone Tzakis (H) defeated Irina Piskunova & Kateryna Pylypyshyna (B), 8-5.

# 2 Monica Calungcagin & Louise Hollander (H) def. Mariya Krivorotova & Ellen Dadanina-Podval (B), 8-1.

# 3 Jane Nassisi & Sarah El-Edlibi (H) def. Sara Ayoub & Shalanda Graham (B), 8-1.

 SINGLES

# 1 Evgeniya Kim (H) def. Irina Piskunova (B), 6-0, 6-1.

# 2 Kateryna Pylypyshyna (B) def. Monica Calungcagin (H), 7-5, 6-4.

# 3 Louise Hollander (H) def. Ellen Dadanina-Podval (B), 6-0, 6-1.

# 4 Antigone Tzakis (H) def. Mariya Krivorotova (B), 6-0, 6-1.

# 5 Sara Ayoub (B) def. Jane Nassisi (B), 7-6 (7-2), 6-4.

# 6 Sarah El-Edlibi (H) def. Shalanda Graham (B), 6-1, 6-4.

 

Photo: John Neves