BALTIMORE – The Saint Joseph's women's tennis team battled at Morgan State on Tuesday, ultimately falling by a 5-2 score.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Fabiana Tort-Umpierre and Victoria Tracey kicked the day off with a 6-1 win in the top doubles flight, but the Bears earned 7-5 wins in each of the last two flights to win the doubles point.
 
• Morgan State doubled its lead with a win in the third flight, but Tort-Umpierre rolled to a 6-3, 6-4 win in the second and Tracey claimed a 6-3, 7-5 win in the first to bring the Hawks back to level pegging.
 
• Unfortunately for the Crimson and Gray, the Bears took wins in the final three flights – two of them in three sets – to secure the match victory.
 
HAWK TALK
"We had some chances to win the doubles point today," head coach Jeff Puhan said.  "We came out strong in singles play; Victoria and Fabiana had really good wins.  In the end, Morgan State won the important games today."
 
UP NEXT
The Hawks will host Drexel on Wednesday morning; match time has been moved up to 10:00 a.m. due to impending weather.
 
RESULT
 
Morgan State 5, Saint Joseph's 2
 
Doubles
1. Fabiana Tort-Umpierre / Victoria Tracey (SJU) def. Lauryn Hall / Hannah Smith (MSU), 6-1
2. Iva Jankovic / Averiana Mitchell (MSU) def. Ireland Amato / Sophia Amato (SJU), 7-5
3. Aleksandra Evdokimova / Stefania Moysiadi (MSU) def. Charlotte Kordonowy / Brooke Tackett (SJU), 7-5
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3
 
Singles
1. Tracey (SJU) def. Evdokimova (MSU), 6-3, 7-5
2. Tort-Umpierre (SJU) def. Jankovic (MSU), 6-3, 6-4
3. Smith (MSU) def. Kordonowy (SJU), 6-3, 6-0
4. Hall (MSU) def. Tackett (SJU), 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
5. Mitchell (MSU) def. I. Amato (SJU), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
6. Moysiadi (MSU) def. Kirsten Wijnsema (SJU), 6-2, 7-5
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4