SOUTH HADLEY and NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Mount Holyoke first-year Cal Smith joined the Lyons' top tennis doubles team of sophomore Annika Chai and first-year Jaskirat Kaur as they fell to Colby's Caroline Kittle and Amelie Gal in the consolation championship match of the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament B Draw on Sunday morning at Smith College, concluding the NEWITT for the tournament co-host Lyons.
The tournament, one of the oldest and largest in women's Division III tennis, is played "Billie Jean King Cup" style, in which everyone is entered with a partner and each round of play is decided by winning at least two out of three matches -- two singles matches and one doubles match. The team that wins moves forward in the draw. It concluded Sunday at Smith after two days of action at both Mount Holyoke and Smith.
Saturday Recap
Chai and Kaur defeated two opponents Saturday to advance to the B Draw consolation championship match, highlighting the second day of the New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament for co-host Mount Holyoke College on Saturday.
Chai (London, England) and Kaur (Mohali, India) defeated Smith College's Marielle Sauber and Olivia Monos on Saturday morning, followed by a victory over Wellesley's Cristina DeAgazio and Bella DeAgazio in the afternoon. That sets up a Sunday morning consolation championship matchup against Caroline Kittle and Amelie Gal of Colby, to be played at 9am at Smith.
In the C Draw on Saturday, Mount Holyoke pair of senior captain Shweta Kiran Cavale (Chennai, India) and Smith (Bridgewater, Mass.) played in the C Draw quarterfinals following their victory over Trinity on Friday, but they were eliminated from the draw via a 3-0 loss to Shelby Henry and Olivia Berler of Endicott.
Friday Recap
Mount Holyoke fielded five two-player teams and advanced one to the quarterfinal rounds to open the NEWITT on Friday.
Playing in the tournament's C Draw, Kiran Cavale and Smith teamed up to defeat Trinity College's Audrey Lee and Kennedy White 3-0. They won the doubles match 8-2, Smith defeated White 6-3, 6-2 in one singles match, and Kiran Cavale defeated Lee 5-7, 6-2, (10-8).
Playing in the B Draw, Mount Holyoke's top doubles team of Chai and Kaur lost in a first-round matchup against the fourth-seeded duo, Juliette Moschella and Mariana Campos of Babson.
Elsewhere in the C Draw, first-year duo Kate Vavra (Weston, Mass.) and Kennedy Bagley-Fortner (Montclair, N.J.) fell to the fourth-seeded Endicott team of Sam Hartmann, Mar Molina, and Katie Fitzgibbons.
Two more Mount Holyoke teams paired up in the D Draw, both falling by 2-1 scores. In the A Pool of the D Draw, the first-year team of Gautami Melekote (Ellington, Conn.) and Shanden Plyler (Norwood, N.C.) fell 2-1 to Emerson's Chase Stinson and Carlson Jones. Meanwhile in Pool B, sophomore Claudia Gonzalez-Vazquez (Cancun, Mexico) and sophomore Katherine Rha (Douglaston, N.Y.) were defeated 2-1 by Wheaton's Haylee Doiron and Elise Little-Gill.
