Sollecito Battles Back to Win in Women's Tennis' Loss to Roger Williams

Junior Ali Sollecito recovered from dropping her first set, 1-6, to force a tiebreaking set, 6-4, and picked up the win with a 14-12 third-set victory as the Leopards fell t the Hawks, 8-1

Team Stats

Roger Williams

Wentworth

Score

Doubles

Alessia Cahoon / Heidi Martin def. Ali Sollecito / Morgan Collins 8-1
Taryn Roche / Emma Place def. Olivia DeLuca / Sam McGibbon 8-1
Riley Spillane / Libby Bennett def. CiCi Deakin / Hannah Erickson 8-1

Singles

Ali Sollecito def. Alessia Cahoon 1-6 , 6-4 , 14-12
Taryn Roche def. Olivia DeLuca 6-1 , 6-0
Heidi Martin def. Sam McGibbon 6-3 , 6-0
Emma Place def. Morgan Collins 6-0 , 6-0
Morgan Crimmins def. Hannah Erickson 6-1 , 6-0
Samantha Rivkin def. CiCi Deakin 6-1 , 6-0

September 21, 2019

MILTON, Mass. – The Wentworth Institute of Technology women's tennis team (2-5, 0-3 Commonwealth Coast Conference) fell, 8-1, to Roger Williams (7-0, 3-0) on Saturday afternoon in CCC action. The Leopards' lone point came at No. 1 singles on a come-from-behind win from junior Ali Sollecito (Taunton, Mass.).

HOW IT HAPPENED:

The Hawks took a 1-0 lead after freshman Alessia Cahoon (Dedham, Mass.) teamed with junior Heidi Martin (Scituate, Mass.) to defeat Sollecito and freshman Morgan Collins (Warwick, Mass.), 8-1. Roger Williams took a 2-0 lead when senior Taryn Roche (Greenlawn, N.Y.) and freshman Emma Place (Francestown, N.H.) defeated junior Olivia DeLuca (Dunstable, Mass.) and senior Sam McGibbon (Pembroke, Mass.), 8-1, at No. 2. No. 3 saw senior Riley Spillane (Easton, Mass.) pair with sophomore Libby Bennett (Watertown, Conn.) to earn an 8-1 win over juniors CiCi Deakin (Standish, Maine) and Hannah Erickson (Columbia, Conn.).
Roger Williams extended its lead to 4-0 when Place defeated Collins, 6-0, 6-0, at No. 4 singles and Roche's 6-1, 6-0 win over DeLuca at No. 2 clinched the match for the visitors.
Junior Morgan Crimmins (Boston, Mass.) defeated Erickson, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 5, sophomore Samantha Rivkin (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) defeated Deakin, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 6, while Martin was a 6-3, 6-0 winner over McGibbon at No. 3.
Sollecito dropped the first set to Cahoon at No. 1, 1-6, however, battled back to force a tiebreaking set with a 6-4 win in the second set. Cahoon led 9-6 in the 10-point tiebreaker before Sollecito fought off match point and eventually won, 14-12.

NEXT UP:

Wentworth is at Curry on Tuesday.

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