TOWSON, Md.- The Towson University women's tennis team dropped a hard-fought 4-2 decision to
Fairfield Friday night at the Coppermine Bare Hills indoor facility. The match lasted three and a half hours.

Fairfield earned the doubles point with victories on courts two and three. After Towson's top pair of Kiersten Tambe and Chandrè Boshoff won 6-2, the other two teams lost close sets, including the number two team of Gaia Montecchi and Ashira Murray in a tiebreaker.
 
The Tigers (2-2) took a 2-1 lead after straight set wins by Tamzin Pountney (No. 4) and Murray (No. 5). The Stags (1-4) regained the lead with victories on courts one and three. Montecchi, looking for her eighth consecutive singles matches win, had a chance to tie the match at 3-all, but dropped a heart-breaking three set loss at No. 2 – losing 14-12 in the tiebreaker. The sophomore had three match points during the third set.
 
Doubles Results (Fairfield earned the point): 
No. 1 – Kiersten Tambe/Chandrè Boshoff (TOW) def. Sophia Harris/Sarah Liu (FFD), 6-2
No. 2 – Anna Neyestani/ Maria Gell (FFD) def. Gaia Montecchi/Ashira Murray  (TOW), 7-6 (5)
No. 3 - Victoria Mandma /Dylin Pizzutello (FFD) def. Aubrey Carper/Tamzin Pountney (TOW), 6-4
 
Singles Results: 
No. 1 – Mandma (FFD) def. Tambe (TOW), 6-4, 7-6 (5)
No. 2 – Harris (FFD) def. Montecchi (TOW), 4-6, 6-4, 14-12
No. 3 – Anna Neyestani (FFD) def. Boshoff (TOW), 7-5, 6-2
No. 4 – Pountney (TOW) def. Nicolette Loeffler (FFD), 6-0, 6-3
No. 5 – Murray (TOW) def. Lily Malinowski (FFD), 6-2, 6-4
No. 6 – Carper (TOW) vs. Maeve Cassidy (FFD), 5-5 (DNF)
 
Next Match: 
Towson heads to the Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon to face Swarthmore. Swarthmore is ranked 22^nd in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) NCAA Division III preseason poll and returns five of the six singles players from last year's Centennial Conference championship lineup.