MEADVILLE, Pa. -- For the fourth consecutive year, the top-seeded Allegheny College women's tennis team will compete for the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championship.

The Gators (11-0) punched their ticket to the championship match with a 4-0 sweep of No. 4 Washington and Jefferson College (10-4) on Thursday afternoon at the Robertson Athletic Complex. Allegheny will host No. 2-seeded Grove City College (9-3) in the PAC Championship Tournament finals on Saturday, October 18, at 1 p.m.

Eight days after beating the Presidents in the PAC regular-season finale, the Gators downed W&J in a similar fashion. Allegheny earned the doubles point with a 6-3 victory at No. 1 and a 6-0 shutout at No. 2.

The No. 2 doubles duo of Gabrielle Bassette (Miami, Fla./Miami Country Day School) and Maria Lounder (Pittsburgh, Pa./Moon Area) were the first two to complete their singles matches. Bassette dropped only one game against Claire Loomis in the top spot, while Lounder defeated Cole Paisley, 6-3, 6-0, at No. 5. Rei Etsumi (Honolulu, Hawaii/President William McKinley) clinched the semifinal out of the sixth spot with a 6-2, 6-0 triumph over Austyn Paugh.

Doubles Results
1. Evie Ellenberger / Emiliia Grydnieva def. Claire Loomis / Keiran Moorhead, 6-3
2. Maria Lounder / Gabrielle Bassette def. Maya Hamade / Bella Graham, 6-0
3. Rei Etsumi / Giada Palmieri vs. Mackenzie Gumto / Austyn Paugh, 3-4 (unfinished)

Singles Results
1. Gabrielle Bassette def. Claire Loomis, 6-0, 6-1
2. Emiliia Grydnieva vs. Bella Graham, 6-3, 2-2 (unfinished)
3. Giada Palmieri vs. Keiran Moorhead, 6-3, 0-1 (unfinished)
4. Evie Ellenberger vs. Maya Hamade, 6-2, 1-0 (unfinished)
5. Maria Lounder def. Cole Paisley, 6-3, 6-0
6. Rei Etsumi def. Austyn Paugh, 6-2, 6-0

Up Next
Winners of two of the last three PAC championships, the Gators will face Grove City in a rematch of the 2023 title match. Allegheny will look to avenge their championship loss to the Wolverines from two years ago, having beaten them during the regular season, 5-2, back on October 1. 

Saturday's championship match is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. on Allegheny's home courts at the Robertson Athletic Complex.