HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina – The College of Wooster women's tennis team ran its winning streak to five – the longest since 2018 – before 33rd-ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater snapped the run in the Fighting Scots' spring break finale on Monday afternoon.
Wooster (8-6) rolled past Hollins University 9-0 on Sunday. First-year Janaki Jagannathan teamed up with sophomore Otilia Oita at first doubles, where the Scots posted an 8-3 win. The victory marked the fifth straight for the duo, with the last three in that run coming in the first flight.
Further down, sophomore Kim Nguyen and first-year Cherry Patlolla won 8-0 at No. 2 and juniors Katie Materick and Abby Kushner Benson pitched an 8-0 shutout at No. 3. Materick and Nguyen scored their sixth consecutive doubles victory in their respective matches.
Wooster dropped just five matches in a convincing singles sweep against Hollins and no Scot dropped multiple games. Oita and Patlolla posted identical 6-0, 6-1 lines at Nos. 1 and 2. Jagannathan won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3 for her seventh straight singles victory, while Nguyen ran her run to seven as well, winning 6-0, 6-1 at No. 4. Materick shook hands with Emily Jones after a 6-0, 6-0 win, and Abby Aitken went 6-1, 6-1 in the sixth flight.
Materick turned aside Whitewater's Elsie Ha 7-6 (5), 6-4 at fifth singles on Monday for her seventh straight victory.
Elsewhere against Whitewater, Oita won three games off 40th-ranked Autumn Bruno (6-3, 6-0), Patlolla fell 6-3, 6-0 to regionally-ranked Cassie Lee, Jagannathan's streak was stopped 6-3, 7-5 by Gianna Nikoleit, Nguyen's run came to a close with a 7-6 (1), 6-2 line at No. 4, and Aitken lost 6-1, 6-2 at No. 2.
Whitewater's 16th-ranked doubles team of Bruno and Lee topped Oita and Jagannathan 8-2 at No. 1, Molly Rueth and Kellie Ha bested Patlolla and Nguyen 8-4 at No. 2, and Materick and Kusner Benson scored five points against Courtney Day and Bethan Marshall, who won 8-5 at No. 3.
Next, Wooster opens North Coast Athletic Conference East Division play against Oberlin College (5-6) at home on Friday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m.