{"id":306328,"date":"2026-10-14T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306328\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:50:11","slug":"golden-bears-top-moravian-for-third-consecutive-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306328\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Bears top Moravian for third consecutive victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The Kutztown University women&#8217;s tennis team closed its fall dual season on a high note Tuesday afternoon, earning a 5-2 road victory over Moravian University.<\/p>\n<p>Kutztown got off to a fast start, claiming the doubles point with wins in the top two flights. <a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anastassiya-kim\/11912\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11912\" target=\"_blank\">Anastassiya Kim<\/a> (Almaty, Kazakstan\/Zerde School) and <a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/isabela-de-nadai\/11906\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11906\" target=\"_blank\">Isabela de Nadai<\/a> (Vitoria, Brazil\/St. Paul&#8217;s School) opened with a dominant 6-1 win over Natalia Smith and Paige Peyton, while the freshmen duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/anna-fisicaro\/11911\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11911\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Fisicaro<\/a> (Pitman, N.J.\/Pitman) and <a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/myah-marturano\/11913\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11913\" target=\"_blank\">Myah Marturano<\/a> (Reading, Pa.\/Exeter Township) secured a 6-4 victory against Kaelyn Balko and Dasha Gencturk\u00a0at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears (4-3) carried the momentum of doubles into singles, where they claimed four of the six matches.<\/p>\n<p>Moravian (2-1) briefly knotted the match due to a retirement at third singles, but KU captured the next three points to clinch the match.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/gabby-gentile\/11907\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11907\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby Gentile<\/a> (Lansdale, Pa.\/North Penn) put KU back on top with a 6-1, 6-1 straight set victory over Gencturk at No. 6. Kim followed with an equally dominant 6-0, 6-2 win over Smith at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>At No. 2, de Nadai\u00a0defeated Balko 6-1, 6-2 to give the Maroon and Gold an insurmountable advantage. Marturano closed the match with a hard-fought victory at No. 4. After dropping the opening set 6-4 to Colette Rollins, the Berks County native won the second set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (0). With dwindling daylight, a 7-point tiebreaker was played in place of the 10-point super tiebreaker. Marturano emerged with a 7-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Following the victory, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/kubears.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/pete-smith\/1669\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1669\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Smith<\/a> praised his team&#8217;s progress throughout the fall campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really proud of the girls,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;It was a good win today and a great fall for us. We have really improved. I&#8217;m looking forward to the spring season with this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears will send representatives up to Bloomsburg this weekend to officially conclude the fall season at the ITA Atlantic Region Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Kutztown will resume its dual schedule Thursday, March 5, 2027, at home against Goucher.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Read Full Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 The Kutztown University women&#8217;s tennis team closed its fall dual season on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-306328","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\/306328","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=306328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}