BRISTOL, R.I. (April 13, 2022) - Salve Regina University women's tennis would prove difficult, but Roger Williams University nonetheless swept the doubles matches in this one. Alessia Cahoon (Dedham, Mass.) and Olivia Santoro (Cheshire, Conn.) slipped past Sailor Nordstrom (New Bedford, Mass.) and Casey Farrell (Cumberland, R.I.) in the topflight, 8-5 while Kate Hardy (Southington, Conn.) and Alexa DiCesare (Norwood, Mass.) outlasted Ellysa Tancrede (Chepachet, R.I.) and Graysen Scherer (Mystic, Conn.) by the same score. At the second flight, meanwhile, Gianna Ferraro (Westerly, R.I.) and Gracie McCarthy (Marion, Mass.) rolled past Natalie Barros (Tyngsboro, Mass.) and Elena Murdock (Westerly, R.I.), 8-2.
In singles play it was much of the same. Ferraro took care of Murdock, 6-1, 6-1 at #2 singles. In the third flight, DiCesare beat Annemarie Haas (Whitinsville, Mass.), 6-1, 6-3. The Hawks dominated in the fourth and fifth flights where McCarthy beat Tancrede, 6-1, 6-0 and Santoro handled Scherer, 6-0, 6-1. In #5 singles, Tanya Gianitsos (Old Saybrook, Conn.) handled Barros, 6-2, 6-1 but the best singles match of the day came in the topflight. There, Cahoon and Nordstrom battled to tiebreakers in the first match as Cahoon outlasted her foe, 7-3 to win 7-6 before shutting out Nordstrom, 6-0 to claim the win.
