QU Women's Tennis Starts MAAC Play at Rider Saturday

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (0-1, 0-0 MAAC) at
Rider Broncs (1-2, 0-1 MAAC)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Rider University Broncs Tennis COurts (Lawrenceville, NJ)
Last Meeting: W, 7-0

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ- The reigning four-time MAAC Champion Quinnipiac women's tennis team will kick off MAAC play this weekend when they travel to New Jersey to face off against the Rider Broncs at 12:00 PM Saturday.

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The Bobcats were idle as a team this past weekend, but Layla Rodriguez (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and JEnnifer Lu (Cypress, Calif.) competed at the Hofstra Invitational last weekend.
The duo combined for three wins over the weekend, including two wins in the Doubles A bracket to advance to the Finals.
One of their victories came over including a victory over Fordham's Carina Ma and Estelle Wong, 7-6 (8-3). Ma and Wong were undefeated to start the 2017-18 season until being defeated by Lu and Rodriguez.
Lu also scored a victory in the Singles A bracket, 6-4,1-6,12-10, before falling in the quarterfinals.
Lu also competed in the 2017 Oracle/ ITA Masters at the Malibu Racquet Club in Malibu, California. Lu fell to the top-seeded competitor in the field, Ena Shibahara of UCLA, and also competed in mixed doubles with Javier Restrepo from Marist.
Freshman Dominique Vasile (Bingham Farms, Michigan) picked up three victories to win the B Singles Consolation bracket at the Army West Point Invitational, defeating Michal Matson from Seton Hall, 8-2, in the championship.
Early in the 2017-18 season, Lu won two straight consolation brackets in A singles at the Stony Brook and Quinnipiac Invitationals. Lu and Visale also made it to the finals of the Doubles A Tournament at the Quinnipiac Invitational before falling 7-5 in the championship match to Fordham's No. 1 doubles team.
Lu, Rodriguez and junior Proyfon Lohaphaisan (Santa Clarita, Calif.) were each first-team All-MAAC selections last season.
Lu was also named the Most Outstanding Player at the MAAC championships after going 4-0 with singles and doubles wins in both the semifinals and finals.
Quinnipiac has won the last four MAAC Championships since joining the league in the 2013-14 season. The Bobcats have still never lost a MAAC match, going a combined 38-0 in the last four years in both the regular season and postseason. There have been some stern challenges along the way, including a comeback 4-3 win over Marist in the 2016 MAAC Championship match, and a narrow 4-2 win over Siena in last season's finals.
Quinnipiac dominated their last showdown with Rider, winning 7-0, in their contest on October 8 last year.

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