USJCT Slated for Women’s Tennis Home Season Finale Monday

BOSTON – The Suffolk women's tennis team takes its three-match win streak into Saturday's meeting with the lone GNAC undefeated team Johnson & Wales. First serve is scheduled for 3 p.m. 

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LAST TIME OUT
The Suffolk women's tennis team was the first of Johnson & Wales' nine opponents this season to defeat the Wildcats as the Rams notched a 5-3 GNAC victory, the team's fourth straight, Saturday afternoon at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols. 

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GREAT JOB GRADUATES

Prior to first serve, Suffolk will honor the player careers of its three graduating players; Valentina Medina, Aidiana Sagyndykova and Eugenia Skorobogatova. 

Throughout her two-year career, Medina has shined as one of the most successful Rams in Suffolk history. She boasts 27-1 overall singles record playing in the first and second position and is 26-3 all-time in doubles matches. The 2015 GNAC Rookie of the Year will graduate as Suffolk's record holder for the most GNAC Rookie of the Week honors, picking up six in 2015, and has garnered three conference player of the week nods this season. 

Sagynydkova graduates as a two-time GNAC Player of the Year, becoming the first Ram to be named the league's top player in back-to-back seasons since 2008.  Overall, she is 41-6 in singles and 37-13 on the doubles court. 

Skorobogatova played for Suffolk as a freshman in 2010 and returned to the team as a graduate student this season. As a freshman in 2010 she went 10-0 in singles on the upper ladder of the line-up and went 6-3 in doubles play. Overall she is 11-2 in singles and 6-4 in doubles action. 

RUNDOWN ON THE RAMS
Suffolk is on a four-match win streak that hit the highest point Saturday when the Rams upset Johnson & Wales to move in a three-way tie for first place amongst the GNAC standings at 3-1. Overall, Suffolk is 6-7 on the season. 

Valentina Medina has continued her scintillating play, keeping her dual match collegiate record unblemished with a 12-0 ledger at the first and second courts. Overall, Medina sports a 12-1 mark this season with her lone loss of her collegiate career coming at the ITA New England Regionals. Aidiana Sagyndykova has also been superior for the Rams, the senior is now 11-0 in dual play, 11-1 overall, at the first and second spot. 

In doubles action, Medina and Isabel Rathlev have teamed together to Suffolk's top pairing. The twosomes boast a 7-0 record exclusively at No. 1. 

BASICS ON THE BLUE JAYS
St. Joseph (Conn.) has won three of its last four notching two sweeps in that stretch at Anna Maira and versus Bay Path. The Blue Jays are 5-6 overall and 2-2 in conference competition. 

Rebecca Mauri has played as the Blue Jays ace and sports a 6-8 record. The senior also plays at No. 1 in doubles, teaming with Lucy Roberge for a 7-8 record. 

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk travels to UMass Dartmouth Thursday, Oct. 13, before wrapping up the regular season at Mount Ida Saturday, Oct. 15.