| Box Score 2 FOREST GROVE, Ore.—Sophomore Yenny Cohen won the Purple Singles Bracket and six Lewis & Clark women's tennis players earned victories in the Pioneers first competition of the 2023-24 season. 
 
THE BASICS
 
Lewis & Clark traveled to Pacific University on Saturday and Sunday for the Pacific 5-Way Tournament that featured the five Northwest Conference schools located in the Willamette Valley. The two-day tournament was broken up into five singles brackets and two doubles brackets with each separate bracket named after a color. 
 
Cohen, who was ranked as the #1 seed in the Purple Bracket, earned an automatic bye into the semifinals. She defeated Grace O'Steen of Willamette University 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the finals. In the championship match of the Purple Bracket, Cohen dispatched Emily Redwood of Linfield University 6-3, 7-5. 
 
In the highest-ranked bracket (Yellow singles), sophomore Susanna Anand and senior Seraphina Vossen each picked up a victory apiece. Anand, the reigning NWC Rookie of the Year, opened her campaign with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Alexa De Crinis (Willamette), before falling to Pacific's Sydnie Binder (7-5, 6-0). Vossen dropped her opening match (6-2, 6-2), but responded with an 8-7 (10-2) win over Emma Tuttle of Linfield. 
 
Freshmen Charlotte Makoni and Emma Loucks each made their collegiate debuts in the Pink Bracket. Makoni collected her first collegiate win with an 8-7 (10-5) victory over Valentina Casab-Klescova (Pacific) in a consolation semifinal match. Loucks fell in the same round to Cassey Hitch (George Fox University) 8-5. 
 
Junior Soraya Young-Pen added her first collegiate win in the Green Singles Bracket. In the first round of the consolation bracket, Young-Pen knocked off Willamette's Ruby Thompson 8-7 (10-3). 
 
Six of the Pioneers competed in the doubles bracket. Makoni and Loucks paired up for Lewis & Clark's lone doubles win. The freshmen duo knocked off Anna Emerson and Morgan Wagoner (Pacific) 8-2 in the opening round of the Red Doubles Bracket. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Vossen, Makoni and Young-Pen all made it to the consolation finals in their singles brackets. 
• The doubles bracket did not play any consolation matches due to rain on Day 2. 
• Anand played two of her three matches against one or both of Pacific's Binder sisters. Cassidy and Sydnie were both named to the NWC All-Conference First Team last season. 
• Cohen and Makoni tied for the team lead with two wins apiece on the weekend. 

 
WHAT'S NEXT
The Pioneers will travel to Newberg this weekend for the ITA Northwest Regional Tournament hosted by George Fox University. Matches are scheduled to take place over three days starting on Friday.