LYNCHBURG, Va. – The William & Mary women's tennis team captured the doubles point for the eighth time in the last 11 matches, but Liberty rallied with four singles victories to pull out a 4-2 match on Monday afternoon at the Cook Tennis Center.
 
How It Happened
- Senior Lauren Goodman and junior Charlotte Madson raced out to a 4-0 lead at No. 3 doubles and the way to a 6-1 win over Anna Dollar and Ashley Bongart. The Tribe duo won for the eighth time this season and improved to 6-3 at No. 3 with its third-straight win. Dollar and Bongart entered the match at 10-3 at No. 3 on the year and had won three in a row.
- Liberty (13-6) responded with a win at No. 2 and the initial point of the match came down to a tiebreaker match at the top spot. Senior Clara Tanielian and sophomore Vitoria Okuyama jumped out to a 4-1 lead before the LU tandem of Lara Soares and Maria Medina won five of the next six games and the match eventually went to a breaker. For the second time in as many days, Tanielian and Okuyama clinched the doubles point for the Tribe (7-12) downing the Flames pair, 7-6 (5). They improved to 8-2 on the year with seven wins at No. 1.
- Liberty responded in singles, winning five of the six first sets. The Flames won the first three singles matches off the court at No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 to take a 3-1 lead.
- At No. 6, Madson won for the sixth time in her last seven matches to draw the Tribe within 3-2. The Tribe junior topped Grace Hashiguchi, 6-4, 6-4, for her 12th win of the year. Mason pushed her dual-match ledger to 10-7.
- Maria Medina provided the clincher for the Flames at the No. 4 spot. After Medina won the opening set 6-3, freshman Mila Saric rallied from a 4-1 deficit to force a second-set tiebreaker. Medina pulled out the tiebreaker, 7-2, to cement Liberty's win.
- After dropping the opening set to Ashley Bongart, junior Rosie Cheng rallied to win the second set, 6-1, at the top spot. The match was abandoned in the third with the team result deficit.
 
Up Next
- The Tribe wraps up the regular season at home against No. 32-ranked Old Dominion on Saturday, April 13. The match carries a 2 p.m. start time from the Millie West Tennis Facility, weather permitting.
- It will also serve as Senior Day for the Tribe as they recognized Deepa Dhore, Lauren Goodman and Clara Tanielian who will compete in their final home matches.
 
Liberty 4, William & Mary 2
Singles
No. 1 – Ashley Bongart (Liberty) vs. Rosie Cheng (W&M) – DNF, 6-3, 1-6, 1-0
No. 2 – Kalani Soli (Liberty) def. Natalia Perry (W&M) – 6-1, 7-5
No. 3 – Lara Soares (Liberty) def. Clara Tanielian (W&M) – 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 – Maria Medina (Liberty) def. Mila Saric (W&M) – 6-3, 7-6 (2)
No. 5 – Anna Dollar (Liberty) def. Lauren Goodman (W&M) – 6-4, 6-1
No. 6 – Charlotte Madson (W&M) def. Grace Hashiguchi (Liberty) – 6-4, 6-4
Finishing Order: 3, 5, 2, 6, 4*
 
Doubles
No. 1 – Okuyama/Tanielian (W&M) def. Medina/Soares (Liberty) – 7-6 (5)
No. 2 – Slmborg/Ghajar (Liberty) def. Saric/Perry (W&M) – 6-4
No. 3 – Goodman/Madson (W&M) def. Dollar/Bongart (Liberty) – 6-1
Finishing Order: 3, 2, 1*