Box Score Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University women's tennis team's road back to the Northeast-10 Conference Championship started with a 4-1 victory over the sixth-seeded Greyhounds of Assumption College on Wednesday afternoon.

Junior Nicole Stay clinched the match for the third-seeded Panthers (10-3) at No.4 singles, delivering a 7-5, 6-2 victory to cap a match in which the Brown and Gold won or were leading at all five contested singles flights. Nicole Kielan earned a rout at No.2 singles, 6-0, 6-2, before Samantha Perri bested NE10 Player of the Year Julia Chappell in straight sets at the No.1 spot to put the Panthers one point away from the win.

Adelphi began the match by winning the doubles point against the Greyhounds (8-5) in a pair of contrasting wins.

Stay and Karen Serina teamed for a 6-1 win at the No.2 slot, before Perri and Kielan outlasted Chappell and Maria Monje at the top spot in a tiebreak. 

Doubles 
1. Samantha Perri/Nicole Kielan (ADE) def. Julia Chappell/Maria Monje (ASM) 7-6(5)
2. Karen Serina/Nicole Stay (ADE) def. Camille Latoni/Paige Benoit (ASM) 6-1
3. Valeria Sanchez/Ana Maria Escuerdo (ASM) def. No player/No player (ADE), by default

Singles
1. Samantha Perri (ADE) def. Julia Chappell (ASM) 6-3, 6-3
2. Nicole Kielan (ADE) def. Paige Benoit (ASM) 6-0, 6-2
3. Karen Serina (ADE) vs. Maria Monje (ASM) 6-2, 5-5, unfinished
4. Nicole Stay (ADE) def. Camille Latoni (ASM) 7-5, 6-2
5. Ashley Mannetta (ADE) vs. Valeria Sanchez (ASM) 2-1, unfinished
6. Ana Maria Escuerdo (ASM) def. No player (ADE), by default

The Panthers will travel to second-seeded Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. on Friday for a 1 p.m. semifinal match. Adelphi scored a 4-3 victory when the two teams met in the regular season on Sept. 29.

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Adelphi University joined the Northeast-10 Conference in the fall of 2009, and in the past nine seasons, has collected 27 regular season conference titles, 29 tournament championships, 41 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup four times (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), while winning six NCAA Division II National Championships.

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