Women's tennis | Women's tennis cruises past Bowdoin

    In its last regular season match of the season, the nationally ranked No. 19 women's tennis team put the nationally ranked No. 18 Bowdoin Polar Bears on ice in Sunday's 8-1 drubbing in Brunswick, Maine.
    Coming off of its worst showing of the season in last weekend's 7-2 loss to Middlebury, the 8-4 Jumbo squad took an early lead over the Polar Bears, sweeping all three doubles matches — the first time the team has swept in nearly a month. In the closest match of the day at No. 3 doubles, senior Mari Homma and junior Erica Miller, who played as a doubles team for the first time since spring break, defeated their Bowdoin opponents 9-8 (7-5). In No. 1 doubles, the No. 2-ranked doubles team in the Northeast, comprised of junior captain Meghan McCooey and sophomore Julia Browne, easily overcame the Northeast's fourth-ranked doubles tandem of Bowdoin's senior captain Sarah D'Elia and freshman Emily Lombardi, 8-3.
    In singles play, Tufts secured wins in all but one faceoff in the No. 6 match. In the No. 1 match, nationally ranked No. 15 singles player Browne faced down the nationally ranked No. 35 singles player D'Elia. Improving to 19-2 on the season, Browne toppled her opponent 7-6 (3), 6-3. 
    Finishing up a busy month of in-conference matchups, in which the Jumbos have crossed rackets with four top-20 teams, Tufts is well-positioned with the start of the NESCAC Tournament coming up this weekend.