Women’s tennis opens with win over Thomas

WATERVILLE, Maine — Maddie Lupone (New Canaan, Conn.) won at first singles and the Venditti sisters won the first doubles match for the Colby College women’s tennis team in a 9-0 victory against Thomas College on Friday.

Lupone took a 6-0, 6-1 victory against Lindsey Allen (Jay, Maine) to help new head coach Jason Cohen win his first match at Colby (1-0 overall).

 

Gabriela Venditti (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Lydia Venditti (Mercer Island, Wash.) won three Washington state titles in doubles in high school. The twins had a successful Colby debut with an 8-0 victory over Allen and Olivia Mora (Surry, Maine).

 

Colby won the rest of the singles matches by 6-0, 6-0 scores. Katie Ryan (Falmouth, Maine), Holly Bogo (East Grand Rapids, Mich.), Jamie Pine (Providence, R.I.), Aleks Piibe (El Segundo, Calif.), and Olivia Stein (Wellesley Hills, Mass.) were winners. Pine and Piibe earned their first collegiate victories.

 

Bogo and Stein combined to win at second doubles by an 8-0 score, while Lupone and Ryan were 8-0 winners at third doubles.

 

Colby is off until the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Tournament at Middlebury College from Friday to Sunday, Sept. 25-27.

Colby 9, Thomas 0

 

Doubles

1: Gabriela Venditti/Lydia Venditti, C, d. Lindsey Allen/Olivia Mora, 8-0

2: Holly Bogo/Olivia Stein, C, d. Amelia Guimond/Katie McAllister, 8-0

3: Maddie Lupone/Katie Ryan, C, d. Miangelik Navarro-Rivera/Antonella Oms, 8-0

Singles

1: Lupone, C, d. Allen, 6-0, 6-1

2: Ryan, C, d. Guimond, 6-0, 6-0

3: Bogo, C, d. Navarro-Rivera, 6-0, 6-0

4: Jamie Pine, C, d. McAllister, 6-0,6-0

5: Aleks Piibe, C, d. Rachel Gillis, 6-0, 6-0

6: Stein, C, d. Jordyn Taylor, 6-0, 6-0