Wayne, N.J. (October 2) –  In it's first match of October, The FDU-Florham Women's tennis (1-2) played a rescheduled non-conference match against the William Paterson Pioneers (1-0) and gave the Pioneers' their first win of the season with a 5-2 score.
 
The Devils only saw one win in the Doubles portion of the match with Paula Vanegas (Guttenberg, NJ) and Meliha Bektesevic claiming the 7-5 score in Doubles #1 over Hartzel and Paladino. The last two pairings in Doubles #2 and Doubles #3 both saw a final score of 6-1 with Summer Ona (Washington, NJ) and Giavana Caraccioli (Bound Brook, NJ) losing to Hoosack and Yancey, and Haidy Abdelmonem (Linden, NJ) along with Marilu Guzman (Newark, NJ) taking the loss from Thomas and Shand.
 
Singles #1 seated Bektesevic against Thomas and FDU owned the win with a 6-0, 6-0 score. Ona was the other Devil who earned a point for the match as she defeated Hartzel after a 6-3, 6-4 win in Singles #2.

Seen in Singles #3 was Vanegas who unfortunately lost by a 6-1 score in the first set and a 7-5 final set score to Paladino. Hoosack hosted Caraccioli for Singles #4 and took the game into three sets but saw another point added for the Pioneers as the won by scores of  6-4, 4-6, 10-4. Both Guzman in Singles #5 and Abadelmonem in Singles #6 were defeated early  as they were given a 6-1, 6-1 and a 6-1, 6-3 loss to Shand and Yancey.
 
FDU-Florham has a quick turn around time as they will be hosting East Stroudsburg University on Thursday, October 3 for a 3:30pm non-conference match.
 
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