The Middlebury women's tennis team competed against three Division I opponents this weekend at the Harvard Fall Scramble in the Beren Tennis Center. Seton Hall, Rhode Island, Harvard and Middlebury played a form of hidden duals with three doubles and six to seven singles matches taking place in each round.
On Friday in matches against Seton Hall, Heather Boehm and Molly Paradies earned a 6-1 win in doubles over Anniek Jansen and Krista Cerpina. In singles play, Boehm tallied a 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Melody Tall, while Maddi Stow posted a 6-1, 6-0 triumph over Jansen.
In Saturday's matches versus Rhode Island, the Panther doubles team of Katherine Hughes and Skylar Schossberger won by a 6-2 score over Rachel Smilansky and Halah Davis. Ann Martin Skelly and Stow were victorious by a 6-2 tally over Mihaela Codreanu and Paige Alshon, while Emily Bian and Paradies recorded a 6-4 victory against Ariel Haber and Nicole Legler.
In singles play, Boehm needed three sets to get past Codreanu (6-4, 2-6, 10-2), while Hughes edged Smilansky (7-6, 6-4). Paradies posted a 6-2, 6-3 victory against Haber, while Schossberger was victorious by scores of 6-3, 7-6 over Davis. Stow dropped just one game in a victory against Alshon (6-1, 6-0), while Skelly surrendered just two games in a 6-2, 6-0 win over Legler.
Against the Crimson on Sunday, Hughes and Schossberger picked up the lone win for the Panthers with a 6-1 doubles victory over Irene Lu and Lexi Milunovich. During singles action, Boehm and Milunovich split the first two sets and Boehm ahead by a game in the third when Milunovich defaulted (3-6, 6-4, 2-1).
The Panthers return to the courts this weekend with the annual Middlebury Invitational from Friday to Sunday on Proctor Tennis Courts.