NORTH BERGEN, N.J. – Despite a pair of second-set leads, the fourth-seeded Lycoming College women's tennis team couldn't make a comeback after falling in all three doubles matches, helping No. 1-seed Stevens Institute of Technology post a 5-0 win in a MAC Freedom Championship semifinal on Wednesday, April 26 at Braddock Park.
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The Warriors finish their 2022-23 campaign with an 8-9 record under first-year head coach
Joel Reid. Three Warriors finished the season with more than 10 singles wins, with sophomore
Rei Saar (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) leading the team with a 13-5 record, tied for the sixth-most wins in program history. Sophomore
Sarah Lanphear (Chittenango, N.Y./Chittenango) and first-year
Emma Kelchner (Nescopeck, Pa./Central Columbia) each had 11 wins. Kelchner also posted 11 doubles wins, tied for fourth in program history and Saar's 23 combined wins were tied for sixth in the program record book.
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Stevens, which improved to 9-9 with the win, moves on to the MAC Freedom Championship final for the third straight year as it will try to repeat as the conference champion.
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Stevens won two of the three doubles bouts, 8-0, with the Warriors' No. 2 pair of junior
Hannah Seebold (New Columbia, Pa./Milton Area) and sophomore
Rei Saar (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) winning to of 10 games.
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The Ducks won the first two flights of singles to clinch the meet, although at the time the match ended, junior
Haley Seebold (New Columbia, Pa./Milton Area) was leading 4-3 in the second set at No. 5 singles and sophomore
Sarah Lanphear (Chittenango, N.Y./Chittenango) was up 3-2 in the second set at No. 6 singles.
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