Women’s Tennis Runner Up Nancy J. Heath Invitational

Imani Robinson
Imani Robinson

MEADVILLE, Pennsylvania – The Baldwin Wallace University women's tennis team finished second at the season-opening Nancy J. Heath Invitational hosted by Allegheny College.

BW (1-1) opened the invitational by knocking off host Allegheny by a final score of 6-3.  The Yellow Jackets lost in the championship match to Westminster (Pa.) College by a final score of 7-2

Against Allegheny, BW won two doubles matches and four singles matches to secure the win.  Sophomore All-Ohio Athletic Conference player Imani Robinson (Cincinnati / School for Creative & Performing Arts) and freshman Sydney Bergman (North Canton/Hoover) won at first doubles by a score of 8-3.  Freshmen Liz Radkiewicz (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) and Emily Danhert (Charlottesville, Va. /The Covenant School) picked up the victory at second doubles by a score of 8-5.   Bergman won at first singles by scores of 6-1 and 6-2.  Robinson earned the victory at second singles by scores of 6-3 and 6-4.  Radkiewicz took the win at fourth singles by scores of 6-4 and 6-3.  Junior Kelly Peskura (Strongsville) won at sixth singles by scores of 6-3 and 6-1.

In the match with Westminster, the Yellow Jackets won one doubles and one singles match.  The second doubles team of Danhert and Radkiewicz won by a final score of 8-6.  Bergman won the lone singles match as she took first singles by scores of 6-1, 1-6 and 11-9.

BW closes out the fall portion of its schedule when it travels to nearby Oberlin on September 9-11 when it travels to nearby Oberlin to compete in the Oberlin College Invitational on the Don Hunsinger Tennis Courts.