Saint Mary\u2019s College tennis began its fall season at the Hope College 2025 Fall Invitational in Holland, Michigan this past Friday and Saturday. The invitational was bracket-style, with players competing against competitors from various schools.<\/p>\n
Doubles<\/p>\n
The Belles notched four wins in doubles play. In the B doubles draw, senior Evelyn Demblans-Dechans and junior Sophia Pischalko secured 6-4 wins over Emma Smith and Felicity Kolb of John Carroll University before they moved to the quarterfinals and took a second 6-4 win over Madison Wei and Mallory Matthews of Hope College.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the A draw, senior Emma Kealy and sophomore Shannon Dudy defeated Addison Lyons and Daryn Krause of Kalamazoo College 6-2, but fell 2-6 in the quarterfinals. In the C draw, the Belles earned their fourth doubles win, as freshman Mia Graziano and sophomore Odessa Norton prevailed over Rachel Grissom and Alex Vermeulen of Calvin College 7-5.<\/p>\n
Singles<\/p>\n
Saint Mary\u2019s totaled 14 wins in singles play, beginning in the C singles draw, where Demblans-Dechans secured wins over Molly Stevison of Kalamazoo College and Julia Hooker of Calvin College, 8-3 and 8-4, respectively. In the D singles draw, Pischalko notched an 8-5 win over Soussana Kimbouris of Kalamazoo College, followed up in the third round by an 8-4 win over Rachel Grissom of Calvin College. Also at D singles, sophomore Lanie Brant gathered wins over Madelyn Dell of Spring Arbor University and Ava Hovey of Adrian College, 8-6 and 8-2. <\/p>\n
In the B draw, two Belles earned wins, as junior Anna Gardner earned a tough win over Maya Lee of Kalamazoo College 8-7 (7-5) and Dudy secured wins over Calvin College\u2019s Ryan Morey and Roosevelt University\u2019s Milena Novikova, 8-6 and 8-7 (7-5), respectively. <\/p>\n
At E singles, Graziano notched a dominant win over Ava Hauser of Adrian College, 8-0. Also in the E draw, Norton earned an 8-2 win over Kaitlyn Schmitt of Spring Arbor and an 8-2 win over Sophia Wallstrom of Spring Arbor. <\/p>\n
Finally, in the F draw, freshman Maria Manzella recorded a commanding 8-0 win over Julianne Hindman of Ohio Northern. Additionally, freshman Raelynn Pickup prevailed in a nail-biting match over Alivia Mott of Spring Arbor, 8-7 (7-2).<\/p>\n
The Belles have an extended break before they head to Anderson, Indiana on Oct. 10, where they will take on both Indiana University East and Anderson University in a double dual match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Mary\u2019s College tennis began its fall season at the Hope College 2025 Fall Invitational in Holland, Michigan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-147369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}