Syracuse beats Notre Dame 4-3, improves to .500 on the year
Corey Henry | Senior Staff Photographer
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Syracuse earned all its points from singles matches on Sunday afternoon, doing just enough to beat Notre Dame 4-3 in South Bend, Indiana. SU is now .500 on the season.
The Orange lost the doubles point due to a 6-3 loss from No. 1 doubles pairing Sofya Treshcheva and Polina Kozyreva and a 6-1 blowout loss from No. 3 doubles Miranda Ramirez and Ines Fonte. No. 2 doubles Natalie Novotna and Viktoryia Kanapatskaya were up 5-3 when the point was ceded to the Fighting Irish.
All three SU doubles pairs lost Friday afternoon against Louisville. The pairings were shuffled again Sunday, with Treshcheva and Kozyreva at No. 1; Novotna and Kanapatskaya at No. 2; and Ramirez and Fonte at No. 3 — representing the fourth different doubles pairings through six games this season.
Coming out of the huddle post-doubles, Kozyreva (6-3, 6-4), Kanapatskaya (7-6, 6-2) and Novotna (7-5, 2-6, 6-2) all secured wins. Ramirez (4-6, 1-6) and Fonte (6-7, 3-6) couldn’t beat respective opponents Page Freeman and Maeve Koscielski. Syracuse got a point for No. 6 singles via a Notre Dame forfeit.
The win puts the Orange at 3-3 overall. After this weekend’s road trips, Syracuse will play its next four games at home: Virginia Tech on Friday, UVA on Feb. 28, Miami on March 12 and FSU on March 14.
Published on February 21, 2021 at 5:40 pm
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