ANNVILLE, Pa. – Lebanon Valley's women's tennis team picked up their first win of the fall season with a closely-contested 5-4 victory over Penn State Harrisburg on Thursday afternoon.
 
In the doubles matches, LVC went 2-1 on the day over the Lions. At #2 doubles, Nicole Honrade and Madison Poladian won 8-3 while the #3 doubles pair of Meridyth Sanders and Zoe Birch were victorious by an 8-2 score.

The Dutchmen women would split singles play going 3-3 to help secure the overall match victory. Poladian won a three-setter in the #3 singles slot after winning the tiebreaker set 10-7. In the #4 singles position, Emily Wilczek took home a win in straight sets 7-5, 6-4. To wrap up the day for the Dutchmen, it was Sanders in the #5 singles slot who won in straight sets without surrendering a single game for entire match.

Doubles Results: 
#1 Rachael Lim/Sydney Nye (PSUH) def. Melanie Haas/Emily Wilczek (LVC) 8-3
#2 Nicole Honrade/Madison Poladian (LVC) def. Elyse Mellott/Courtney Bennett (PSUH) 8-3
#3 Meridyth Sanders/Zoe Birch (LVC) def. Vaishnavi Datta/Gabrielle Sabatose (PSUH) 8-2
 
Singles Results:
#1 Rachael Lim (PSUH) def. Nicole Honrade (LVC) 6-0, 6-2
#2 Sydney Nye (PSUH) def. Melanie Haas (LVC) 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-0
#3 Madison Poladian (LVC) def. Vaishnavi Datta (PSUH) 7-5, 6-7 (0-7), 10-7
#4 Emily Wilczek (LVC) def. Elyse Mellott (PSUH) 7-5, 6-4
#5 Meridyth Sanders (LVC) def. Courtney Bennett (PSUH) 6-0, 6-0
#6 Claire Hackenberg (PSUH) def. Zoe Birch (LVC) 6-1, 6-0

The Flying Dutchmen are back in action this weekend when they host Susquehanna University on Saturday at noon at the Shankroff Tennis Center.

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