Tennis Badgers Sweep Green Mountain

Green Mountain College women’s tennis team hosted Johnson State on Saturday afternoon at Vermont Sport and Fitness Club and were shutout by the Badgers 9-0 in non-conference play.

Johnson State (1-3) earned its first victory of the young season with a clean sweep of the doubles matches before earning the match victory with two wins in first and second flight singles. The Badgers continued a successful run right through sixth flight singles to claim the 9-0 victory.

All matches won by the visitors were done in straight-set fashion with the only tightly contested match occurring in fifth flight singles. Ashley Fogg used a narrow victory in the second set at 7-6, winning the tie breaker 7-4, to claim victory over her opponent Swe Zaw Oo.

Badgers’ Deanna Brandstetter and Annette Kaminski teamed together in first flight doubles to score an 8-1 victory over the Eagles’ Alex Reedy and Paige Vlahos. Brandsetter and Kaminski also emerged victorious in their first and second flight singles matches over GMC’s Kathleen Chappelear and Reedy, respectively.

Eden Towers and Fogg scored an 8-2 second flight doubles victory over Chappelear and Salima Mahamoudou.

Kali Covell and Nicole Monick took third flight doubles over the GMC pairing of Ruby Santiago and Elana Weinstein, 8-0. Covell continued her success in a shutout of Mahamoudou in fourth flight singles, while Monick took Katherine Hansberry in straight sets in sixth flight singles. The match marked Hansberry’s debut in singles play.

Green Mountain (0-3) will continue its inaugural season within the North Atlantic Conference next Saturday by hosting Lyndon at 1 p.m. Meanwhile Johnson next hosts Plymouth St. on Saturday at noon.