CLEVELAND -- The No. 66-ranked Allegheny College women's tennis team was defeated by 18th-ranked Case Western Reserve University, 7-0, on Friday afternoon in Cleveland.

The Gators (18-7) concluded the regular season by facing a nationally-ranked opponent for the third time in their last four matches. CWRU (12-5), which also comes in at No. 3 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region poll, advanced to the third round of the NCAA Championships last spring.

All three doubles matches ended with the same score at 6-1. However, the Gators challenged the Spartans in the second and fourth singles matches. Nicole Serna Cassan (Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico/Grandview Preparatory (Fla.)) took four games from Katalina Wang in the first set and led all Gators with six games won across both sets.

Doubles Results
1. Laurel Utterback / Ellior Rose def. Emiliia Grydnieva / Adriana Navarro, 6-1
2. Katie Wong / Maya Brink def. Maria Lounder / Nicole Serna Cassan, 6-1
3. Kareena Sivanesan / Yasemin Bilgin def. Mackenzie Burd / Jillian Clark, 6-1

Singles Results
1. Laurel Utterback def. Emiliia Grydnieva, 6-0, 6-1
2. Katalina Wang def. Nicole Serna Cassan, 6-4, 6-2
3. Ellior Rose def. Maria Lounder, 6-2, 6-1
4. Maya Brink def. Adriana Navarro, 6-1, 6-3
5. Kareena Sivanesan def. Mackenzie Burd, 6-1, 6-0
6. Sara Fernandez def. Jillian Clark, 6-1, 6-0

Up Next
Allegheny's regular-season schedule for the spring half of 2024-25 has concluded. Winners of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) tournament in the fall, the Gators earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division III Championships. More information about the first round matches will be announced by the NCAA in the coming weeks.