ELON, N.C. — The No. 7 seeded Towson University women's tennis team will meet No. 2 William & Mary in the first round of the 2022 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Women's Tennis Tournament on Friday, April 29 at 1 p.m. The event will be played at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center on the campus of Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.
Records
- Towson — 9-12 (1-5 CAA)
- William & Mary — 10-8 (5-1 CAA)
Last Time Out
Towson closed out its regular season on a high note, defeating Saint Joseph's 6-1 on Senior Day. The team was dominant, winning the doubles point and going up 5-0 without dropping a single set.
Themis Haliou/Lea Kosanovic got things going with a win on the top doubles court, 6-1. Sissi Axelsson/Olivia Rothfeld clinched the doubles point on court No. 3 with a dominant 6-0 victory.
Amelia Lawson carried the momentum into singles play, with a big win on court No. 2 (6-2, 6-3) to put the team ahead, 2-0. After the Tigers dropped the decision on the final court, Sarah Pospischill picked up a win on court No. 3, 6-2, 6-4, to make the score 3-1.
Senior Assenmacher clinched the match win for the Tigers on Senior Day with a 7-5, 6-2 victory on court No. 3. Haliou (7-6, 6-3) and Rothfeld (0-6, 6-1, 6-3) rounded out the day with wins to give Towson the 6-1 win in its last match of the regular season.
Last Time Against William & Mary
The last time the two teams met, William & Mary swept Towson at the Tiger Tennis Complex, 7-0.
The Tribe got out to a hot start, winning the doubles point with 6-1 and 6-0 decisions on courts No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. William & Mary went onto win all six singles matches to secure the 7-0 sweep. Themis Haliou was the only Tiger to win a set, pushing her match on court No. 2 to three sets. But the effort was not enough, as she fell to Hedda Gurholt (6-2, 4-6, 10-6).
CAA Tournament 2021 Recap
Towson advanced to the 2021 CAA Tournament Quarterfinals after defeating Hofstra, 4-0, in the first round. With the No. 3 team of Amelia Lawson and Lea Kosanovic winning by default, the Tigers only had to win one match to clinch the doubles point. Towson's top doubles duo of Themis Haliou and Alexa Martinez did so in less than 25 minutes, winning 6-0, 6-0.
The Tigers went up 3-0 when Lauryn Jacobs (No. 5 singles) and Jessica Assenmacher (No. 6) earned wins by default meaning Towson only needed to win one of the remaining singles matches to win. Martinez (No. 1), Haliou (No. 2), Lawson (No. 3) and Sarah Pospischill (No. 4) all won their first sets. Pospischill clinched the match with a 6-0, 6-0 victory. Lawson led her match 6-0, 4-0.
The team then fell to top-seeded James Madison, 4-0, to end their run in the tournament.
Scouting The Tribe
William & Mary is riding a four-match winning streak into the CAA Tournament, defeating Delaware (4-3), Towson (7-0), Richmond (6-1) and Elon (5-2). The Tribe have only dropped one match in conference play to top-seeded Charleston on March 19, in a close 4-3 decision.
W&M's top singles player, Mila Saric, is 14-3 at the top lineup spot and has won her last six matches. She is also 3-2 over nationally ranked opponents. Paired with Hedda Gurholt, the duo leads the team in doubles with an 8-7 mark on court No. 1.
Tigers in the Community
For the 7th consecutive year, the department exceeded 10,000 hours of community service to the Greater Baltimore region, finishing with 11,162 hours of community service in the 2018-19 academic season. Towson ranked #1 nationally for community service and won the 2018 National Championship for Community Service through the Helper Helper NCAA Team Works Competition. Towson had a 97% participation rate, attended 118 community service opportunities and volunteered with 19 organizations. The Tigers won the 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award from Susan G. Komen of Maryland.
