Vaynberg, Orange Swing Past Seton Hall, 5-2

Saturday, April 8

South Orange, N.J.

1 p.m.

Syracuse University

Seton Hall

Victoria Vaynberg won her match at flight one singles against the Pirates without losing a single game.

4/9/2006 10:32:10 AM | Tennis

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The Syracuse women’s tennis team earned a 5-2 victory in its final road dual match of the regular season at Seton Hall, Saturday night. Sophomore Victoria Vaynberg (Princeton, N.J.) led the charge playing to a 6-0, 6-0 victory at number one singles. Junior Ashley Lipton (Saratoga, Calif.) was pushed to three sets in her singles match, however came out on top to move her school record win-streak to 14 straight matches. SU is now 14-5 (6-1 BIG EAST) on the year, marking the third highest win total in a season for the Orange all-time.

SU won the doubles point against the Pirates as Vaynberg and sophomore Catherine Zawadzki (Brooklyn, N.Y.) pulled out an 8-6 victory at number one, while Lipton and junior Carolina Huignard (Don Mills, Ontario) won 8-5 at number two to give the Orange the first point of the match. Syracuse had to forfeit flight three.

Vaynberg continued her stellar play this season by posting a 6-0, 6-0 victory at number one to improve to an impressive 12-4 at flight one singles this season. Zawadzki won her third-straight match at flight two singles, 6-3, 6-4, while junior Katie Bramante (Endwell, N.Y.) got off to a slow start as she lost the first set, 6-0, before coming back to run away with the next two sets and the match, 6-1, 6-1.

Lipton won the opening set at flight four, 6-0, before being pushed to a tiebreaker in the second, in which she lost 9-7 to force a third-set super-breaker. With her school record 13-match winning streak on the line, Lipton stepped up and pulled out the decisive breaker, 10-6. Her win moves her to 20^th on the SU all-time wins list with 114.

At flight five, Huignard lost in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1. Syracuse had to forfeit flight six.

SU will next be in action on Friday, April 14^th when it hosts its final regular season dual match against St. John’s at the Drumlins Tennis Club in Syracuse, N.Y. at 1 p.m.