{"id":121651,"date":"2026-02-23T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:34:24","slug":"saint-francis-defeats-lehigh-in-bethlehem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121651\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis Defeats Lehigh in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Saturday evening, Saint Francis defeated Lehigh, 4-2. With the loss, the Mountain Hawks fell to 2-6 on the season. With the win, Saint Francis improved to 5-6 on the season.

\n“Tough 2-5 loss against SFU. We competed hard on every court and put ourselves in position again, but losing the doubles point proved costly. I’m proud of the fight we showed, we’ll reset quickly and get right back after it,” said head coach Sophia Geier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The match began with doubles action, where Saint Francis claimed the doubles point after Skye Yonehara<\/a> and Audrey Harrington<\/a> picked up a win on Court 3.<\/p>\n

In singles play, Maggie Forkner<\/a> defeated Dasha Chichkina on Court 1, 6-4, 6-2. On Court 3, Giselle Vlassis<\/a> earned a three-set win over Gabriela Almanza, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. The Red Flash secured victories on Courts 2, 4 and 5 to clinch the match.<\/p>\n

Up Next

\nLehigh is right back in action Sunday morning when it hosts Saint Joseph’s University at 10 a.m. at the Lewis Indoor Tennis Center.

\n

\nSaint Francis 5 Lehigh 2<\/p>\n

Singles\u00a0
\n \n<\/p>\n


\n\tMaggie Forkner<\/a> (Lehigh) def Dasha Chichkina (SFU) 6-4, 6-2
\n\tKelly Dowuona (SFU) def Lena Dogadalski<\/a> (Lehigh) 6-0, 6-2
\n\tGiselle Vlassis<\/a> (Lehigh) def Gabriela Almanza (SFU) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
\n\tHelena Lynn (SFU) def Alice Ann Pantsari<\/a>\u00a0(Lehigh) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
\n\tReagan Mangan (SFU) def Ronit Khromchenko<\/a> (Lehigh) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
\n\tTuffs Morgan (SFU) def Skye Yonehara<\/a> (Lehigh) 6-4, 3-6, 6-1\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Order of finish 1,2,4,5,3,6<\/p>\n

Doubles\u00a0
\n \n<\/p>\n


\n\tDasha Chichkina \/ Helena Lynn (SFU) def Maggie Forkner<\/a> \/ Hannah Letzer<\/a> (Lehigh) 6-2
\n\tKelly Dowuona \/ Gabriela Almanza (SFU) def Lena Dogadalski<\/a> \/ Ronit Khromchenko<\/a> (Lehigh) 7-5\u00a0
\n\tAudrey Harrington<\/a> \/ Skye Yonehara<\/a> (Lehigh) def Sophia Cunningham \/ Emma Marais (SFU) 6-2 <\/p>\n

Order of finish 3,1,2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Saturday evening, Saint Francis defeated Lehigh, 4-2. With the loss, the Mountain Hawks fell to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-121651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}