April 13, 2010

BOSTON - An injury-plagued Boston University women's tennis team fell to Boston College, 6-1, at Harvard University's Beren Tennis Center on Tuesday afternoon. With only five of nine Terriers available to play in singles action, BU dropped to 8-11, while the Eagles improved to 6-13.

Snapping a two-match losing streak to the Terriers, BC swept through doubles action but in three hard-fought matches before winning four of the five singles contests actually played. BU had to forfeit the No. 6 singles match due to having an incomplete lineup.

In doubles, Katharine Attwell and Brittany Delaney defeated BU's No. 2 team of Francine Whu and Monika Mical, 8-5, while Ina Kauppila and Katarina Gajic earned an 8-6 victory over Petra Santini and Inayat Khosla at No. 3. The Eagles earned the sweep at No. 1 when Alex Kelleher and Olga Khmylev slipped past Vivien Laszloffy and Stefanie Nunic, 8-7(4).

Trailing 1-0, the Terriers went into singles action with both No. 1 Nunic and No. 3 Santini dropping out due to injury. Already having both Elizabeth Corrao and Vanessa Steiner out, BU immediately fell behind two points and had to reshuffle the lineup.

Linero rallied from a set down for her first highest-slotted victory of the season at No. 4 with a 6-7(9), 6-4, 10-7 win over Olga Khmylev.

The Terriers will now try to get healthy before hosting Hartford on Friday, April 23, in the final home match for Whu and Corrao.

Boston College - 6, Boston University - 1

Singles
1) Alex Kelleher (BC) def. Francine Whu (BU), 6-0, 6-0
2) Katharine Attwell (BC) def. Vivien Laszloffy (BU), 6-4, 6-3
3) Katarina Gajic (BC) def. Monika Mical (BU), 6-2, 6-4
4) Jessi Linero (BU) def. Olga Khmylev (BC), 6-7(9), 6-4, 10-7
5) Ina Kauppila (BC) def. Inayat Khosla (BU), 6-2, 6-4
6) BC by default

Doubles
1) Kelleher/Khmylev (BC) def. Laszloffy/Nunic (BU), 8-7(4)
2) Attwell/Delaney (BC) def. Whu/Mical (BU), 8-5
3) Kauppila/Gajic (BC) def. Santini/Khosla (BU), 8-6