PHILADELPHIA – The Saint Joseph's women's tennis team kicked off its spring schedule on Friday afternoon, falling to Penn, 7-0, at the Quakers' Hecht Tennis Center.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Penn (2-1) took the lead early with wins in both doubles flights.

• The Quakers followed up by sweeping all six singles matches to finish off the day.  Freshman Ana Ocasio took her sixth-flight tilt to a supertiebreaker, as she ultinmately fell 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 to Clarise Huang.

HAWK TALK
"First of all, we want to wish Coach Ian Crookenden a fast recovery and that he gets well soon," head men's tennis coach Marc Pibernat said after Crookenden missed the match due to an injury.  "We opened the season with the best team we will face this spring.  Today it was about giving everyone a chance to go out there and compete and the team did a great job staying competitive and showing good fight in each match.  It was a good learning experience for some of our players, seeing that they can compete at a higher level.  It was great to get this match in before going to face Navy tomorrow."

UP NEXT
The Hawks will visit Navy on Saturday afternoon.

RESULTS

Penn 7, Saint Joseph's 0

Doubles
1. Sabine Rutlauka / Eileen Wang (PENN) def. Emily Elliott / Stow Weiss (SJU), 6-3
2. Gavriella Smith / Gibson Thomas (PENN) def. Paige Conrad / Alex Kramer (SJU), 6-0

Singles
1. Iuliia Bryzgalova (PENN) def. Amanda Nava (SJU), 6-1, 6-1
2. Rutlauka (PENN) def. Anna Kirk (SJU), 6-2, 6-2
3. Marija Curnic (PENN) def. Fabiana Tort-Umpierre (SJU), 6-2, 6-1
4. Smith (PENN) def. Sophia Amato (SJU), 6-3, 6-1
5. Wang (PENN) def. Ireland Amato (SJU), 6-0, 6-2
6. Clarise Huang (PENN) def. Ana Ocasio (SJU), 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 (STB)

Game Scores
Singles: Penn 72, Saint Joseph's 26
Doubles: Penn 12, Saint Joseph's 3
Total: Penn 84, Saint Joseph's 29