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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's tennis team lost just eight games over nine matches in defeating Bard College in a Liberty League contest. The Engineers improve to 3-1 in dual matches, while the Raptors fall to 2-4.

RPI got off to a 3-0 win with a sweep of doubles by scores of 8-1 (No. 1), 8-0 (No. 2) and 8-0 (No. 3). Singles went much the same way with RPI winning by a combined 60-1 in seeds No. 2 to No. 6. The closest match of the day was at No. 1 singles with Rensselaer's Mailani Neal holding off Katie Esposito, 7-5, 6-1.

RENSSELAER 9, BARD 0
October 7, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center Tennis Courts

1. Mailani Neal & Tess Lubin (RPI) def. Katie Esposito & Amelia Tiemann: 8-1
2. Vidhya Maran & Nisha Rajamohan (RPI) def. Isabelle Scarborough & Lily Zacharias: 8-0
3. Makenzi Herbst & Andrea Valencia (RPI) def. Beatrix Zhou & Elizabeth Nicholson: 8-0

1. Neal (RPI) def. Esposito: 7-5, 6-1
2. Valencia (RPI) def. Tiemann: 6-0, 6-0
3. Lubin (RPI) def. Scarborough: 6-0, 6-1
4, Rajamohan (RPI) def. Zacharias: 6-0, 6-0
5, Maran (RPI) def. Eva Grunblatt: 6-0, 6-0
6. Herbst (RPI) def. Zhou: 6-0, 6-0