Box Score

Danbury, CT (Sept. 24, 2015) – Purchase College dropped a non-conference women's tennis match, 5-4, to Western Connecticut State University Thursday afternoon on the Westside courts. 

In singles action, Western winners included sophomore Lianne Maynard with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over junior Emma Yavel (Brooklyn, NY); junior Carine Jacqué with a 6-2, 6-2 win over junior Caroline Haldeman-Emmerling (Miami Shores, FL); and senior Alexandra Moravsky with a 6-3, 6-1 win over freshman Nadia Shadi (New York, NY). 

The Western first doubles team of Maynard and senior Angelica Jara defeated Yavel and junior Erika Fulton (Wallingford, CT) 8-1, and the second doubles pair of junior Olivia Mauro and senior Alisa Akam stormed back from a 6-3 deficit to close out the Western victory, 8-6. 
 
For Purchase College, Fulton defeated Mauro 6-7, 6-1, 1-0, senior Roula Zyada (Cairo, Egypt) defeated Akam 5-7, 6-3, 1-0, and freshman Nastaja Stepec (New York, NY) beat junior Violet Lisi 4-6, 6-3, 1-0. 
 
In doubles, Stepec and Shadi defeated Lisi and and freshman Clare Callahan 8-3. 
 
With the loss, the Panthers drop to 4-2 on the season.  Up next, the team heads to Patchogue, NY for a Skyline Conference match hosted by St. Joseph's College-LI on Saturday at noon.

-Western Connecticut Sports Information contributed to this article