EASTON, Pa. -
Grace Conrad and
Meredith Block continued their strong doubles play but the Lafayette Women's Tennis team lost to rival Lehigh 7-0 at Sullivan Courts.
Conrad and Block defeated Lehigh's Leigh Friedman and Grace Lin 6-2 for their third doubles win in as many matches. The Mountain Hawks captured No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to earn the team point and swept the singles matches in the final regular season competition for both teams.
The Patriot League announced today that Leopards would be the No. 8 seed for the upcoming tournament to be hosted by Bucknell University from April 25-28. Lafayette will square off against No. 9 Holy Cross in an opening round match at 3 p.m. on Thursday. Lafayette defeated Holy Cross 5-0 in a regular season contest on March 24.
The winner of the opening round match will face No. 1 Boston University at 8:30 a.m. on Friday.
LEHIGH 7, LAFAYETTE 0
Doubles - Sibel Can and Paula Gonzalez, LU, def.
Cecelia Lesnick and
Samantha Snyder 6-3; Casey Zhong and Elizabeth Nowak, LU, def.
Katie Hill and
Alexa Cooke 6-1;
Grace Conrad and
Meredith Block, LC, def. Leigh Friedman and Grace Lin 6-2.
Singles - Paula Gonzalez, LU, def.
Cecelia Lesnick 6-2, 6-2; Elizabeth Nowak, LU, def.
Samantha Snyder 6-1, 6-0; Casey Zhong, LU, def.
Maureen McCormack 6-2, 6-1; Grace Lin, LU, def.
Grace Conrad 6-2, 6-1; Catherine Meighan, LU, def.
Meredith Block 6-1, 6-2; Leigh Friedman, LU, def.
Katie Hill 7-6, 6-0.
