The tennis of women leads four individual games in the 5-2 victory at Rit

Rochester, NY – Hamilton College's Muhan Cui '28 won their singles and double games, and the continental scored on Saturday, March 1st, a 5-2 victory against the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rits Gordon Field House.

Season -update

• Hamilton (2-0 overall) played his first game of the spring season. The Continentals defeated the Smith College 5-2 on September 28th.
• The Tiger (3-3) have trapped three of their last four double games.

How it happened

• Hamilton won the colon and won 4-of-6th sets in the individual game.
• Hannah Apsey '25 And Stephanie Pratt '25 Brake Serve Early and never looked back at her 6-0 win at No. 1 double slot.
• Shannon Cicero '25 And Cui gave the continental to the double with a decisive 6-2 win at No. 3 double.
• Hannah Walpole '26 Set another point for Hamilton with a 6: 4, 6-0 victory at No. 4 singles.
• Priyanka Challapalli '27 Followed the example with a straight set set victory at No. 3 singles and placed the continental within one point after the team victory.
• Cui got the double match for Hamilton when she only had one game at No. 5 -Singles.
• Samantha Rainero '26 Add another point for the continental with a dominant victory in No. 6 -Singles slot.

Notes

• APSEEY and Pratt improved as a double team to 6: 3 this season, and APSEY recorded 45^TH Career double victory.
• Cicero and Cui played together for the first time.
• Walpole, who studied outside the campus in autumn, was a winner in her first singles match this season.
• Challapalli was her singles record with 3-3.
• The team leads Cui with five singles victories.
• Rainero registered the 19^TH Singles triumph of your Hamilton career.
• Head coach Billy Boykinwhich was discontinued in January collected his first victory with the continental.

Quote

“This was a great first effort from our team,” head coach Billy Boykin said. “I thought we enforced some early nerves and switched to the game. The more time we spent on the pitch, the better we played. I am proud of this group. They put together and they took part well today. I look forward to seeing this team growing.”

Next match

Hamilton will play another non-conference match at the University of Rochester (4: 3) on Sunday, March 2, at 2 p.m.