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SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY SEAHAWKS
Posted: Sep 24, 2016

Bison win 2016 Grass Court Doubles Championships

Players and coaches from all seven schools in the 2016 Grass Court Doubles Championships hosted by Salve Regina University at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. (Photo by Ed Habershaw)
Players and coaches from all seven schools in the 2016 Grass Court Doubles Championships hosted by Salve Regina University at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. (Photo by Ed Habershaw)

NEWPORT, R.I. - Nichols College women's tennis reached all three flight championships, winning two, and earned 16 points to claim the 2016 Grass Court Doubles Championship hosted by Salve Regina University at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Teams competed in three flights of doubles with champions and runners-up crowned in main draw competition; all matches were eight-game pro-sets.

Nichols had enough points for the team championship with its titles at Flights A and C totaling 12 points. Daniele Mandel and Amarie Settiwongse survived a pair of 8-6 battles in first and second round action before taking an 8-5 victory in the Flight A championship over Johnson and Wales' Nina Cohen and Morgan Thompson.

At Flight C, Alanna Judd and Isabelle Leonardi bested three opponents by a combined 24-4 score including an 8-0 win in the final against Colby-Sawyer's Lauren Blanchard and Christine Hill. 

Team Scoring

Nichols 16

Holy Cross 10

Colby-Sawyer 8

Johnson and Wales 7

Salve Regina 4

Bridgewater State 3

UMass Dartmouth 1

The Bison almost had a clean sweep of each flight, but the College of the Holy Cross Flight B pair of Morgan McGuire and Allie Reiling outlasted Lindsey Kaplan and Cristina Szepanski in the longest match of the day, 9-8 and 10-8 in the tiebreak.

The host Seahawks earned main draw wins at Flight A with Priscilla Gaspard and Emma Gruber, and at Flight C with Taylor Amendola and Anna Godshalk.

"It was nice to see our two senior captains (Emma and Taylor) have success on the grass courts," said assistant coach Jerri DiCamillo.

Salve Regina has hosted the event since 1984, and DiCamillo served as the program's head coach from 1985 to 1991, which included winning the first three Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championships in women's tennis (1989, 1990, 1991). Nichols College wins the event for the first time and continues a streak of no repeat champions (2015 champion Holy Cross finished second this year) since Salve Regina went back-to-back in 2005 and 2006.

The Seahawks return to league action on Wednesday when they host the Lions of Eastern Nazarene College (3:30 p.m.).