BOX SCORE

The SVC women's tennis team opened Presidents' Athletic Conference play with a 5-4 victory over Grove City College on the road in Mercer County.

The Bearcats got off to a strong start, winning all three doubles matches.  At the #1 position, Susie Ellis and Jackii Hauser were dominant, scoring an 8-1 victory.  Lucy Bujdos and Autumn Miller, a pair of freshmen, battled their way to a 9-8 win, taking the tiebreaker 7-5, in the #2 doubles match.  Anita Onufer and Maria Gismondi, playing in the #3 pairing, were 8-5 winners.

The Bearcats needed two wins in singles to secure the win, and Hauser came through with a 6-1, 6-1 victory in the #2 singles match, while Breana Liberoni clinched the victory with a 6-2, 6-3 victory at #6.  Ellis, playing #1 singles, lost a third set tiebreaker in the day's longest match.  After winning the first set 6-0, she lost a second set tiebreaker, 7-6, sending the match to the third set finale, where she fell by a 10-7 margin.

With the victory, SVC is now 2-1 overall on the year, 1-0 in the PAC.