ATHENS, Ga. - The Marist women's tennis squad fell 4-0 to the University of Georgia on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex on the campus of the University of Georgia. Sophomore Kelsey Raynor (Garden City, N.Y.) led the Red Foxes as she won three games in her suspended first singles match versus the reigning NCAA Singles Champion Chelsey Gullickson 6-2, 0-1.
In doubles, the team of sophomore Joana Sun (Gales Ferry, Conn.) and junior Erin McCarthy (Salem, N.J.) battled to a 3-5 score versus Georgia's Kate Fuller and Lilly Kimbell in second doubles before their match was suspended.
Other doubles action included Georgia's Gullickson and Nadja Gilchrist defeating Raynor and McCarthy in number one singles, 8-1 and Maho Kowase and Cameron Ellis downing seniors Jeannie Lukin (Kinderhook, N.Y.) and Retta Byron (Scottsdale, Ariz.) by a score of 8-0.
Georgia won three single matches as #59-ranked Gilchrist won the number two match versus McCarthy 6-0, 6-1, while Kimbell defeated freshman Marielle Campbell (Patterson, N.Y.) in fourth singles 6-0, 6-0. Georgia clinched the match with their fourth point as #86 Ellis beat junior Kayla O'Donovan (Lynbrook, N.Y.) in fifth singles 6-0, 6-0.
Sun and Lukin joined Raynor as having their matches suspended. In third singles Sun was trailing #79 Maho Kowase 6-0, 5-0. Lukin won a game against Fuller in sixth singles, but was trailing 6-0, 4-1.
In both doubles and singles, when the point or match was clinched, all matches in progress were halted.