MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Geneva College women's tennis team traveled north on Monday afternoon to take on the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) preseason favorite, Allegheny College.  The women pushed the Gators in a couple of matches but ultimately ended up losing, 7-0.  Geneva is now 4-3 overall, 0-3 in the PAC after opening with a tough stretch of conference matches.

Allegheny took all three doubles matches by identical 6-3 scores.  The loss in No. 1 doubles was the first match in either singles or doubles that standout freshman Chloe DeSanzo has dropped after a tremendous start to her collegiate career.  She had been a perfect 6-0 in both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles over Geneva's first six matches.

In singles play, DeSanzo took her opponent in No. 1 singles, Emiliia Grydnieva, to the very limit.  After losing the first set in a tiebreaker, 6-7, she won the second set, 6-3, to push the match to a tiebreaker.  Unfortunately, after the tiebreaker went long, DeSanzo lost 11-13.  Senior Delaney Winterhalter also took her opponent in No. 3 singles to three sets, winning the first set, 7-5, before losing 0-6 and 6-10 in the tiebreaker.

"We definitely made Allegheny work today," said Head Coach Mandee Craft.  "We had some battles at several positions."

The women will wrap up their three-match road stretch with a match at Washington & Jefferson on Thursday, beginning at 4:00 p.m.