W. tennis wins big; men fall

The Boston University women’s tennis team dominated Quinnipiac University, 7-0, while the men fell to the Bobcats, 5-2, Sunday at the Track and Tennis Center.

The women (5-1) won every set in singles action against the Bobcats (2-2). Junior Francine Whu led the way in first singles with a 6-0, 6-1 win over junior Mary Wilson. In the second singles, freshman Stefanie Nunic defeated sophomore Adrienne Markison 6-1, 6-1. Senior Cori Lefkowith beat freshman Natalie Duckor 6-1, 6-2 in the third singles.

In a closer fourth singles match, junior Elizabeth Corrao won against sophomore Lisanne Steinart 6-1, 7-5. Senior Danielle Abraham beat junior Shawna Saron 6-2, 6-1, and senior Yana Sadovskaya put the exclamation point on the sweep for the Terriers by defeating senior Nicole Adams, 6-0, 6-0.

BU also won two of the three doubles matches to win the point for doubles with Nunic/Lefkowith defeating Duckor/Steinart, 8-2, and Corrao/freshman Petra Santini beating Adams/sophomore Kasey Roseberger, 8-1.

On the men’s side, Quinnipiac (2-1) defeated BU (1-6), winning matches in the first, second, third and fifth singles.

The Terriers’ two points came from senior Tim Sichler’s defeat of freshman James Kwei, 6-4, 6-0, in the fourth singles, and junior James Bernstein’s win over senior Tom Curran, 2-6, 6-3, 10-7.

In doubles, junior Jeff Chudacoff and senior Charles Weinstein defeated sophomore Brian Mikkelson and Kwei in a tiebreaker match, 8-7 (7-5). However, the Terriers lost the other two doubles matches, giving Quinnipiac the point in doubles.

The men return to action Sunday as they host Fairfield University with play set to start at 3 p.m.

The women’s team has two weeks off before visiting New York City, where the team will face off against Stony Brook University on Saturday, Feb. 28, and then Columbia University the following day.