Women’s Tennis Defeated By Pace, 8-1
Deronjic earns victory in singles match
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Bianca LaPointe and the Ravens were defeated on Friday afternoon by
Pace.EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (March 13, 2009)
– The Franklin Pierce University women’s tennis team
opened the spring portion of its 2008-09 schedule on Friday
afternoon with an 8-1, neutral-site loss to Pace in Northeast-10
conference play.
Freshman Suzana Deronjic (Melrose,
Mass./Melrose) captured the only point of the day for the
Ravens. She defeated Pace junior Joana-Theresa Augustine
(Providence, R.I./Rhode Island CC), 6-4, 6-4.
Meanwhile, Augustine teamed with senior Natalija Subotic
(Bradenton, Fla./Edison Academic) to defeat Deronjic and freshman
Kaitlin Krolikowski (Massapequa,
N.Y./St. Anthony’s) in a doubles match, 8-1.
Pace won all three doubles matches and the other five singles
matches to come away with the 8-1 victory.
The Ravens (1-6, 1-5 NE-10) return to the court on Thursday, March
26, when they travel to Merrimack for a Northeast-10 Conference
match at 3 p.m. in North Andover, Mass. Pace (1-4, 1-4 NE-10)
returns to action on March 22 at Stonehill.
Results
Doubles
Natalija Subotic/Joana-Theresa Augustine (Pace) def. Kaitlin
Krolikowski/Suzana Deronjic (FPU), 8-1
Kaylee Andersen/Carla Gross (Pace) def. Drew Alexander/Lauren
Smilovich (FPU), 9-7
Rebecca Aaron-Albanese/Jessica Greene (Pace) win by default
Singles
Subotic (Pace) def. Krolikowski (FPU), 6-1, 6-0
Deronjic (FPU) def. Augustine (Pace), 6-4, 6-4
Andersen (Pace) def. Smilovich (FPU), 6-2, 6-4
Gross (Pace) def. Bianca LaPointe (FPU), 10-4
Aaron-Albanese (Pace) def. Alexander (FPU), 8-2
Greene (Pace) wins by default