Endicott Tops Gordon In Match Of Undefeated CCC Squads, 5-4

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Doubles

Abigail Denney / Tawnie Yeaw (GC)
def. Mackenzie Rhodes / Maxine Bergstein (EC)

8-0

Margot Andreasen / Hayley Barnett (EC)
def. Justine Hanson / Katherine Jeffreys (GC)

8-4

Reilly Fitzgibbons / Lauren Rahr (EC)
def. Lily Drescher / Gabrielle Brucker (GC)

8-2

Singles

Hayley Barnett (EC)
def. Abigail Denney (GC)

6-2, 6-3

Justine Hanson (GC)
def. Margot Andreasen (EC)

6-4, 6-2

Tawnie Yeaw (GC)
def. Reilly Fitzgibbons (EC)

7-5, 3-6, 6-2

Katherine Jeffreys (GC)
def. Gillian Freter (EC)

7-5, 6-2

Maxine Bergstein (EC)
def. Abby Caron (GC)

7-5, 6-2

Mackenzie Rhodes (EC)
def. Lily Drescher (GC)

7-6 (7-5), 6-2

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Posted: Oct 01, 2015

BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott women's tennis team moved one step closer to locking up the No. 1 seed in the CCC Tournament with a 5-4 victory over Gordon College on Thursday evening. Both teams entered today's match with an identical 6-0 record in CCC play.

Endicott took a crucial 2-1 lead at the conclusion of doubles play as the Gulls picked up wins at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, via four freshmen.

Reilly Fitzgibbons (Killingworth, Conn.) and Lauren Rahr (Waterford, Conn.) earned a hard-fought 8-2 victory in the No. 2 position to even the score of the match at 1-1 after Gordon's No. 1 pairing of Abigail Denney (Peoria, Ariz.) and Tawnie Yeaw (Foothill Ranch, Calif) claimed a clean 8-0 triumph over Mackenzie Rhodes (Rye, N.H.) and Maxine Bergstein (Hingham, Mass.).

Fitzgibbons and Rahr were then followed in the win column by classmates Margot Andreasen (Portland, Maine) and Hayley Barnett (Marlboro, N.J.) who notched a come-from-behind victory at No. 3 by an 8-4 decision after trailing 4-3 at one point during the match.

In singles action, Barnett turned in a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 1 to give Endicott a 3-1 advantage, while Gordon's Justine Hanson (Meadow Vista, Calif.) countered with a 6-4, 6-2 triumph at No. 2 to make it a 3-2 deficit.

Both teams then exchanged wins at No. 5 (Endicott/Bergstein) and No. 4 (Gordon/Jeffreys), respectively, to push the score to 4-3 in favor of Endicott before Rhodes battled through a 7-6 (8-5), 6-2 victory at No. 6 singles to clinch the match for the Gulls.

TOP QUOTE

"The team did a great job of executing some strategies we used in practice this week," said Endicott women's tennis head coach Jeremy Howard. "I am now looking forward to our final regular season match and Homecoming this weekend against Wentworth on Saturday."

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

Endicott pushed its CCC regular season winning streak to 17 straight matches with today's win.
The Gulls have not lost a CCC regular season match since September 29, 2013 against Nichols (L, 5-4).
Andreasen/Barnett extended their CCC doubles winning streak to six straight matches with today's comeback win at No. 2.

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott (9-2, 7-0 CCC) hosts Wentworth in a CCC matchup on Saturday, October 3 at 12 p.m. Gordon (9-1, 6-1 CCC) welcomes Eastern Nazarene to its campus this Saturday for a conference match at 11 a.m.

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